Editorial

Hari shankar vyas The million dollar question now is how Rahul Gandhi will move forward. Will he take full command of the party or maintain status quo? His first eight years of active politics were quite good, but since 2012 all is not…
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 R. K Pachauri Diplomacy in the 21st century promises to take on a very different character and content from what has been practised in the past. Issues like energy security and climate change would have an important part in determining…
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A Surya Prakash The Narendra Modi Government's decision to observe 31st October, the Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) and to mount a nationwide campaign to acquaint the country's…
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Balbir Punj As the Government of West Bengal is seen compromising security, the question for Union Minister for Home Affairs Rajnath Singh is: How far will he tolerate the alarmingly rising threat to security in the entire region? The…
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With Assembly election process set  in motion, Jammu and Kashmir has some unfinished agendas left. Of the two main were withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and return of Kashmiri migrants to Valley. These two were even…
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It is over three decades when the country saw one of the worst communal riots for which no political accountability has been made till date. The November 1984 anti-Sikh riots following Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination on 31st…
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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that Pakistan won't dare to disturb peace on the borders is welcome. He also said, "We don't want peace at the cost of our honour," apparently referring to weak response shown by the earlier…
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India has turned up among the worst countries as far as the gender based disparities are concerned . The index first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 is a frame work for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and…
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Rajesh Singh Few people could match Henry Kissinger in his visceral dislike, even hatred, for India, in the seventies. Fewer still would be less deserving of the Nobel Peace prize which he got in 1973, barely two years after he, along with…
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Sandhya Jain The presence of the grim black flags of the Islamic State or Dawlat al-Islamiyah f'al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham (Daesh) in Jammu and Kashmir and other Indian States where Jihadi cells nestle, is testimony to Pakistan's…
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