Opinion

In the topsy-turvy world of many cops and netizens what is wrong for children is right for adults.

Oli’s remark is less about the fact that Ram might have been Nepalese and appears to be more of a covert attempt to assert cultural and economic independence and different alliances, at a time when the power dynamics of the region are shifting.

One of the factors which could have played a big hand in this year's success is the significant improvement in the expenditure of education over the past five years; which is about 25 per cent of the Delhi government’s total expenditure.

The PM recited a famous poem of eminent poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar to boost the morale of soldiers in Ladakh, but there could also be a political context.

The position of the Indo-Muslim orthodoxy with regard to the Ottoman Khilafat began to crystallise in the 1840s.

The United States protests, till the little time they were peaceful, were well and good. But the second they took the course of violence by raiding shops and defying the rule of law, they became illegitimate.

Sterlisation would amount to interference in nature, and also cause trauma to tigers which will have to be tranquilised, captured, operated upon and released back into the wild.

China watchers and analysts have called for a tough line. But conflict in any form at the time of COVID19 is not the best way forward; India cannot afford either the distraction or the cost.

The coronavirus lockdown is like a temporary dam to hold back flood waters. However, once the dam is dismantled, the flood waters come rushing in to inundate areas that had been kept dry.

The episode marks a good beginning and a triumph for the Indian government in its efforts to convince Naypyidaw to eliminate the camps and training facilities of Northeast rebels.

New Delhi may have to begin by carefully delineating political and economic components to Third World nations, and devise strategies that are not only nation-centric but also group-centric.

In the beginning, the authorities had to screen, quarantine and test all international and interstate travellers and deal with the mass anxiety.

some of the needs of an economy facing this lockdown can in fact be met by liquidity and risk reduction. The government appears to have recognised this.

All four nominees are said to be loyal to Fadnavis, who also had his way when his man, Pravin Darekar was chosen as the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council.

Being unable to identify infected households, we are resorting to the hammer approach of locking everybody down. This would impose unacceptable economic costs.

The agitation on the streets, in the backdrop of the CAA, pointed to a possible polarisation of minds along sectarian lines. Then came the coronavirus and with it a sea of change in the attitudes of both, the minorities and the presiding majority.