Opinion

From May to November 1920, nearly 60,000 Muslims emigrated or undertook hijrat.

Though the Khilafat Movement was triggered by the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, its portents started getting visible with the declining fortunes of the Turkish Khalifa in World War I.

The 1857 Uprising was a significant eruption of Islamism, but even so, its ideological foundations were laid down in the eighteenth century.

We, in India, are au fait with American war movies, where a full throated shout of ‘MEDIC’ results in a medical corps soldier rushing up to the wounded.

In a radio address at Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in London, Jawaharlal Nehru described China as a great nation and emphasised on the rebirth of China with new strength.

The government may have to infuse a significant amount of money to keep the airline afloat and possibly further sweeten the offer for disinvestment.

These tribunals will hear three kinds of cases for the time being – those referred by the police, Election Commission and the cases under the erstwhile and controversial Illegal Migration (Determination by Tribunal) Act 1983 which was repealed by the Supr...

In the present pandemic scenario, individuals need to be protected and systems ought to be used for comforting them. Thus, commercial contracts like loan agreements should be examined with balance of convenience in favour of borrowers.

Operation Blue Star was successful in the sense that it killed the bulk of the separatists, but the army mission was an utter failure because it failed to prevent the near complete destruction of Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht.

Crisil and Fitch seem to agree that the biggest reason for such an unprecedented downward revision in India’s growth forecasts, within a span of a month, is a harsh lockdown imposed by the government.

Different weapon platforms have different levels of technology complexity, and greater the complexity, the greater has to be incentive for global defence manufacturers to invest in India. It would be more prudent if rules for investment were more relaxed...

The elections will be fought on the issue of success or failure of the Bihar government in handling the influx of lakhs of ‘Pravasi Biharis’ after being rendered jobless due to closure of factories due to Covid-19 lockdown.

The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc globally, leaving governments and communities struggling to find a response. This is happening even as new technological and industrial transformations are altering societies around the world.

The emerging ideas for managing nature post Covid-19 take us towards ‘Sustainable Development Plus’ with ‘Safe Living” getting high priority in the core objectives of our development initiatives

The issue with liquor sale online is different states levying different excise duty, which makes it extremely tough for the state to track purchase from one state and it being sold in another.

If you take the entire state of Gujarat, then the death toll is around 475 and total number of positive cases stand at around 7,800. This means Ahmedabad’s share in total death due to the virus stands at 75%.