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At a time when several BJP-ruled states are mulling legislation against ‘love jihad’, a term often used by right-wing groups to target relationships between Moslem men and Hindoo women, which, they say, is an elaborate ruse to forcibly convert the women, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen...

From Hathras in North India to Poland in Europe, women, in general, seem to be going through a tough period in human history. Not that history has any other period known or recorded that had given that gender a kinder treatment. Recent past, especially the...

As coronavirus wreaked havoc across Europe early this year, two French doctors’ suggestion that Africans could be used as human guinea pigs for testing vaccine against COVID-19 drew widespread condemnation. The ‘deeply racist’ comments produced angry reactions not only from the World Health Organization (WHO)...

The prime minister has given an extraordinary interview to the business newspaper the Economic Times. It is confident in outlook, breezy in tone and out of place with our reality. He assumes he had done not only the right thing in managing Covid but done...

The countdown to the annual Budget for 2021-22 has started amid the urgency to push economic growth badly mauled by the Covid-19 pandemic. There is already talk of a third stimulus soon, going by the recent utterances of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Budget-making babus...

Skyrocketing prices of kitchen essentials continue to harass the common man. Most vegetables have remained out of bounds for the poor. Onions and potatoes are getting less visible in kitchens. Only the upper-middle class and the ultra rich from amongst us can afford to buy...

Why would any government make policies that make its people poorer and unhealthier? I can only put this down to a complete ignorance of real economics due to which policies have the worst effect on the economy and on health. Let me briefly give you...

In a paradigm shift in an assembly election jobs have become a major talking point in Bihar. It used to be water, electricity and roads. Not anymore. Days after RJD’s young leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s protégé Tejashwi Yadav announced 10 lakh government jobs, BJP...

India took a step forward in its bilateral ties with the United States Tuesday with the signing of some significant defence and security pacts. That the US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and defence secretary Mark Esper took a joint trip to New Delhi to...

India’s electoral system, run by the Election Commission of India, is one of the world’s wonders. It was not too long ago (and in fact many of us can remember those days) when Bihar’s elections were associated with violence and booth capturing. A series of...