Opinion

The most important miss is the economy. Several indicators including the slump in the auto sales, rail freight, consumption of petroleum products, domestic air travel and also in imports, clearly showed the slow down.

It looks like one can thrash anybody for any real or imagined crime, from theft to child-lifting, without any consequences—that is, for the culprits.

The Congress has done injustice with Priyanka Gandhi, the price for which the party itself would pay.

The first priority for the Congress should be to resolve the current leadership cirisis and to reinvent its identity as a credible alternative to the BJP.

As India looks to battle its border concerns and address the woes of its farmers, Sadguru lists the five steps the country should take to tide over its troubles.

Nitish Kumar has begun the exercise to fill the void and expand his horizon beyond Bihar. He is attempting to draw a bigger line than the present regional leaders such as Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik.

The Aircraft, as per reports, having taken off at 12:24pm, lost radio contact at around 1:00pm, indicating that it would have been in the terminal phase of flight amidst the hills in Arunachal when the contact was lost.

Poor and neo-literate parents cannot be expected to hold the onus of ensuring that much more powerful and resourced schools comply with quality, safety and equity norms.

Due to their presence in clusters and in the interiors, tribals are not part of our everyday electoral discussions. Theirs aspirations, desires and underdevelopment rarely became the issues of 2019 parliamentary election.

While the grand old party may deem itself the ruling party-in-waiting, it is the regional leaders who are giving the BJP a run for its money.

The Hajipur constituency, which goes to the polls in the fifth phase on May 6, has been reserved for Scheduled Castes since 1957 with exceptions in 1962, 1967 and 1971 elections when it was declared a general seat.

It was bizarre and strange that Priyanka versus Narendra Modi narrative was started by the Congress and stoked by 'sources' till it turned out to be a hoax.

The way Indian electoral politics is minutely changing at the ground level, is being reflected through words, signs and symbols.

Justice Gogoi might have felt his honour attacked but the question looms large if it was proper for him to use the judicial forum of the Supreme Court to refute the personal charges.

Mayawati has been appealing in various rallies for unity among various Bahujan communities. She even replied to Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Ali versus Bajrang Bali’ comment, saying 'both are ours'.

These are mostly traditional artisanal communities produced under jajmani systems (caste-based economic systems) and are found among both Muslims and Hindus. One can find them among OBCs, MBCs and SCs.