Opinion

Afghanistan’s mineral resources and its possible inclusion in Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) interest China, but only in principle.

The Surat model shows that with smooth and streamlined coordination at district level, a robust justice delivery mechanism is possible.

People are leaving their birth religion in favour of a foreign faith. Churches are coming up in every nook and corner in both rural and urban areas of Punjab.

In India, the centrality of marriage remains the highest validation for womanhood — followed closely by motherhood, and this cuts across socio-economic stratification.

Amitabh Bachchan’s hold over our imaginations, reignited by KBC, hasn’t faltered despite generations of new actors who came after, including the Khan trinity: Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir.

Hindutva has evolved to battle the degenerative Nehruvian secularism, which at its core is a project to subjugate the Hindu mind for the larger goal of maintaining an oligarchic rule.

So is it really about big investors sending out a signal that they won’t stand for overpriced issues?

As India-US defense ties expand, military exercises become more frequent, Washington and Delhi do not need any inadvertent policy to preclude great strategic initiatives.

The powers given to the Supreme Court under the Constitution of India were to correct any grave miscarriage of justice, and not to adjudicate all manner of disputes.

Does anyone really believe that an Imran Khan will be converted into a paragon of liberal democratic values after meeting with the ‘prophets’ in Washington DC?

The real estate and construction sector in India has to overhaul the way it does business. It has to plan and build climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure projects.

Investment in crypto products does not benefit the fintech but it does create a parallel unregulated pool of investments, which the RBI governor said can destablise the macroeconomic environment.

The foundation of new Kashmir has to be built on mutual trust and cooperation between the Union of India and the people of Kashmir Valley.

The Rs 2 lakh gift to terrorists who violated the sanctity of Republic Day will act as an incentive—the message being the more outrageous your actions, the more we will look after you.

It is moot if the US can still set the agenda and expect other nations, particularly China, to follow suit. Hopefully, it will not be a case of ‘Biden proposes, Xi disposes!’

From a time when smaller parties used to flock to bigger parties, the situation has turned on its head in Uttar Pradesh in the run-up to the Assembly election.