Opinion

In UP Next, Modi’s appeal among women voters, his mega show in Kashi Vishwanath and outreach to poor were analysed – and how these could hold significance on the result day.

There is a need for India as the unnamed leader of the grouping to keep an open mind lest the CSC experiment should fail on a future day.

While BJP state victories must be lauded as a win for their respective state leaderships, fact remains these victories are built on a platform created by Modi.

Despite Covid-19 pandemic and students’ learning being affected, one is still obsessed with taking exams.

Taiwan is completely exposed to the hazards of the ill-timed abomination that the Biden Administration sells as 'strategic ambiguity’.

Good, old-fashioned democratic politics remains a primary driver even in the digital age. Wolves and wolf warriors hunt in packs; open societies need to respond with similar unity of purpose.

A priori condition for UCC is that State must have the will to enforce it on all. If there are communities bent upon forcing their own beliefs over Constitution, UCC will become counter-productive.

Any claim to the contrary is a mere illusion and not a credible effort towards fulfilling the goals of the Constitution.

Rahul Gandhi’s trysts with Parliament after the arrival of Narendra Modi have been full of gaffes. Howsoever eloquent one might be with words, it would still be a euphemism. Gandhi's speech is no exception.

Just as Hindu women and indeed men too must question the diktats on bindi or against jeans, similarly Muslim women too should reflect on the fundamentals of hijab.

At the press conference, the finance minister and the key secretaries argue they are being realistic. The FM added she prefers to be a little conservative and over-achieve.

The misconceived optimism that coronavirus will be vanquished by vaccines in 2021 vanished amidst the assault of variants. Will the armour of immunity provided by millions of natural infections and billions of vaccine doses hold up?

With Air India going back to the Tatas, the country's tax payers will be better off and the government will have the luxury of transferring a loss-making asset to a corporate entity that has established credentials in the aviation sector.

We have moved from utter disbelief and confusion in the first wave, to panic and distress in the second wave to slow acceptance of coexistence in the third wave.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will be remembered for daring to script a brief turnaround in Bengal’s declining industrial fortunes since the end of 1960s and paying a price for it.

According to China’s state media, the country’s modern aircraft are the best in the world. Yet Pakistan’s experience with the Chinese-made JF-17 tells a different story.