Editorial

Providing free-diagnostic test for all sounds unrealistic keeping the dismal performance of health sector in India. But if the Union Government thinking becomes a reality all those who visit public health facilities would be able to get…
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Sunaina Malik  Roads are to connect the lives so does the Mughal Road. Today Mughal Road is connecting three culturally and geographically different areas like Rajouri, Poonch and Kashmir. As the word Mughal Road indicates that this path…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra   The arbitrary purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to France, is now being rapidly followed up with the French Defence Minister's second visit to India within the year. When…
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With prospects of Indo-Pak cricket ties reviving by year-end normalising of relations looks a possibility which had remained clouded after 2008 Mumbai attacks. The  holding or reviving  of sports tie especially cricket which  has been the…
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Literacy is still a distant dream for many in India. Going by the pace of development it will take another five decades to achieve respectable female youth literacy percentage. Empowerment of women through education and equal opportunities…
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Harsh V Pant Promising to lead a government for "one nation" and make "Great Britain greater" as he returned to 10 Downing Street as prime minister, David Cameron proved the British pollsters and political pundits wrong. For all the talk…
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Jitender Kohli Since 1947 the society is bearing the outcome of so-called secularism qualified by the Nehru-Gandhi led Congress and its alliance. To hold the secular word they had converted the minorities to vote-bank section of society at…
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With Supreme Court favouring Uniform Civil Code it looks the controversy over different laws governing matrimonial issues will have uniformity for couples of different communities. The Apex Court had questioned the Centre's reluctant stand…
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Generally by the month of March one sees mercury rising and peaking in June-July ahead of Monsoon bringing the age-old malady of water shortage and power cuts. This year also we have started experiencing the power cuts though temperatures…
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 Kalyani Shankar  At last, the land boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh is on its way to being ratified in Parliament. The border issue has been a sour point between the two countries for four decades now. The delay in…
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