His elevation follows a pattern that the BJP has mastered for its growth — outgrowing regional partners and inverting the hierarchy in its favour. The ground realities in the State had shifted in the ...

A lesson from the blast at the Virudhunagar cracker unit is that human involvement in hazardous industries should be kept to a minimum ...

The ongoing vulnerability of oil-import-dependent economies gives India with an opportunity to accelerate its transition to renewable energy ...

The ongoing factory workers’ protests in Noida’s industrial belt points to the need for humane working hours and wages and genuine labour reform that is well enforced ...

Bill, 2026 failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for a constitutional amendment; ramrod approach to delimitation was bound to fail ...

The significance of R. Vaishali winning the Women’s Candidates cannot be overstated. The winner of the gruelling 14-round tournament, featuring the world’s top chess players, gets the right to ...

In 2019, for instance, the IMD expected less than normal rainfall in April because El Nino-like conditions were on the horizon. Paradoxically, India ended up with above normal rainfall because that ...

While the ceasefire is now in effect, peace remains elusive. The wars on Iran and Lebanon should serve as a reminder to Israel of its own limitations. Mr. Netanyahu sought regime change in Iran and ...

The government’s insistence on bundling women’s reservation with delimitation suggests that the former is being used as political cover for the latter ...

In the case of Nithin Raj, the first-year dental student in Kannur who died last week after falling from atop a five-storey building, the police have identified harassment over a loan that he secured ...