Opinion

Dalits account for more than 17 percent of the votes in Rajasthan, which is considered crucial in forming next government in the state.

Both Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar are visibly uncomfortable in the NDA.

This essay is about six places, including Thoothukudi, where the syndrome is in play. In all six places, the Pollution Control Board and the Union Environment Ministry cooked up documents and perverted the law to thwart citizen complaints.

Is India now calling on Pakistan to cooperate in not only intelligence sharing but suggesting that Indian and Pakistani agencies should jointly develop leads on potential terrorist attacks?

'I can’t do this anymore. You will have to cook, and manage the kitchen, delegation and execution. Unless you want to eat my completely shite cooking.'

The security forces do not go around seeking an excuse to attack civilians. It is just the other way around with stone pelters looking for opportunities to create mayhem and chaos, writes Lt Gen (Retd) DS Hooda.

Whatever the details not yet disclosed, it is safe to assume Jaishankar will earn at least ten times the salary he received last from the government of India. And thereby hangs a case of outdated ideas, misplaced morality and convoluted thinking on what g...

Probably, the last of the editors, who believed in keeping intact a wall between editorial independence and business, Mr Singh was a fighter, who saw The Statesman through the dark, dark days of the Emergency. He was the only editor, as far as I know, who...

Rahul Gandhi has not only realised Modi government's weaknesses but has also launched an aggressive campaign against it. This comes at a time when regional parties, inside and outside the NDA, have sensed that a BJP's victory in 2019 could wipe out their...

BSP supremo Mayawati will address a rally in Karnataka on Saturday. This will be her first poll rally after the decimation of her party in last year’s UP Assembly elections.

Even though any judgment in interstate water dispute won’t be fully satisfactory for all, Karnataka has more than one reason to smile after the Supreme Court verdict in the cauvery issue. The Congress can certainly use it in the poll campaign in the Cauve...

Simultaneous elections might seem like an exciting proposition but it will, in the long run, strike at the roots of our democracy and kill the very spirit of our Constitution.

A Judge is Like a Hermit, But Even a Hermit has to See What is Happening Around Him

Never in the history of the Supreme Court, except during emergency and Indira Gandhi's time, has there been such interference by the executive.

The hard fact remains that despite Pakistan’s claims that Kulbhushan Jadhav was an agent of R&AW, he was in fact abducted from Iran, a third country, by Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.

The BJP’s vote share in 2017 show that one in every two persons voted for them — despite a strong anti-incumbency factor after 22 years of ruling — a remarkable achievement measured by any metric of psephology and politics.