Editorial

Kanwal Sibal If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New York were any yardstick, it can already be labelled a resounding success.…
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With just five months left for the completion of the current financial year the inordinate delay in allocation of the State's annual plan by the Government of India has led to a piquant situation with many development plans coming to a…
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In its first major step towards overhauling the country's labour laws, the Union Government  has cleared long-pending amendments to three critical laws in the sector that would enable a doubling of the overtime limit for workers, exemption…
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Prof. Kali Dass Pakistan had been targeting Indian posts on LoC and IB of J and K State since its inception and not only this Pak Army took away even heads of two of our army jawans. But there was no effective reply by the UPA Govt.…
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Raj Paul Sharma Vice and virtue go together in this world of duality: neither is capable of eliminating the other. Maintenance of their harmonious proportion is a test for an effective social order. Once vice is allowed to cross the…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra If the Modi Government's stance at the World Trade Organisation was a classic case of the best kind of decision-making being badly explained and badly sold to the public, then, sadly, examples in national security abound…
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The stand taken by the Election Commission on the conduct of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir has set aside all speculations especially when the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said the situation is not conducive. However, the…
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Harsh V Pant With the swearing in of Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank economist, Afghanistan now has a new President who has promised reform, development and an end to poverty and corruption. Last week, after months of tortuous…
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Rakesh Cross-border aggression in the shape of mortar shelling and machine- gun firing across whole of the International Border and Line of Control measuring about 192 km in length by the Pakistan Rangers had rendered the people along both…
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Shyam Saran Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US has created a surge of expectations about the likely trajectory of India-US relations. There is a danger that this may defer a more objective reckoning of the realistic…
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