Mass violence has no place in democracy (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D.C. Pathak
Crime including a stray incident of violence in public may have a personal motivation but there was nothing personal about an episode of mass violence -- it was always instigated by politics, domestic or externally guided. For the government of a sovereign democratic nation, the test of success would lie in whether it was able to take note of the first signs of a directed violence -- as different from an agitation that might show aggressiveness -- for preventive action.
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General Opinion/Comment 07:38 PMApply Newton's law for a healthy planet and life (Opinion)
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General Opinion/Comment 12:02 PMImran Khan is the new Nazi of Asia
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Trust vote in Pakistan - constitutional issues
By Vikram Hegde
Sunday was a day of tumult for South Asia, with major political developments in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. While the resignation of 26 cabinet ministers of Sri Lanka was prompted by the economic crisis in the country, the crisis in Pakistan is a political one, and now also a constitutional one.
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Transforming gold investments in India
By Sameer Patil
Gold has always been an essential part of the socio-economic-cultural ethos of every Indian. As an investment, it has always carried with it the tendency of invoking a sense of sentimental attachment. Despite its tremendous significance, gold investments did not keep pace in terms of ease of buying, storing, and safety. These factors motivated BSE to create a transparent and efficient investment mechanism for gold.
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India charting its own path
By Asad Mirza
The last one-month has shown the tenacity and astuteness of the Indian foreign policy, and the "correctional change" which the current polity is trying to achieve through it.
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EC must dissect manifestos, stop parties asking Centre to fund freebies (Opinion)
Assembly elections are not natural calamities or disasters that require central assistance to meet the extravagant promises made by certain political parties in their manifestos just to lure voters and win these polls. It has become a trend for certain parties to make promises of free electricity, free water, free education, free travel, free cycles, free laptops, free scooties, cash credits etc in their manifestos for winning Assembly elections and once they win, then plead for funds from the Central government.
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There's change in the air happening in Kashmir (IANS Column: FairPoint)
By Deepika Bhan
Over the past few days, certain events in Kashmir have come as a surprise.
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Market momentum to propel further gains
By Arun Kejriwal
Markets in the week gone by behaved on expected lines and gained quite sharply. Markets opened on a weak note on Monday and then did a U-turn. They gained on four of the five trading days.
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China takes cognisance of India's rise as global counsel (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D.C. Pathak
The ongoing Ukraine-Russia military confrontation has had the world community focus its attention on the moves of the US and Russia as the opposing powers, the role of China that remained firmly inclined towards Russia but did not want to further antagonise the US, and the responses of India -- the sole major power that has been able to tell both Russia and Ukraine upfront that cessation of hostilities and recourse to peace talks are the only sensible option to the unending conflict.
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Nepal PM Deuba's Visit to India: How New Delhi can drive Kathmandu's policy of strategic diversification
By Bhavdeep Modi
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is set to arrive in India on a three-day visit on April 1, aimed at inking cross-border connectivity and healthcare projects. Additionally, it has also been reported that Deuba and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to inaugurate the Kurtha-Jayanagar Railway Project, a 35-km stretch that will link Kurtha in Nepal to Jayanagar in Bihar.
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'Moditva': Hard work pays, more so in war-time diplomacy
By Nirendra Dev
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) India is the only country among the Quad which has not condemned Russia.
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Urdu: Whose Language Is It? (Opinion)
By Asad Mirza
The occasion, when Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu is a language, which was born and flourished in India. However, unfortunately following in the footsteps of the colonial masters, the new rulers of India too, demarcated languages on the basis of religion. Though in reality no language needs any religion to flourish but religions need a language to flourish.
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Markets to trade with positive bias in the last week of financial year
By Arun Kejriwal
The week gone by was volatile and saw markets losing on four of the five trading sessions. At the end of the week, BSESENSEX was down 501.73 points or 0.87 per cent to close at 57,362.20 points while NSENIFTY lost 134.05 points or 0.78 per cent to close at 17,153.00 points.
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Why Real Estate is a better option than gold (Opinion)
By Annuj Goel
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Gold has always been a favourite investment vehicle of Indian households as many people transfer the yellow metal from one generation to another. The biggest advantage of gold is that one can be flexible with investment size or the amount. Whether you have to put in Rs 1,000 or Rs 1 crore +, gold is accessible to everyone to buy. Also, gold is highly liquid.
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India captures only 8% of 4K billion cubic meters of rain
By Pavan Kaushik
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Many historians and archaeologists believe that the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed about 2,500 years ago mysteriously lost its existence and disappeared suddenly due to catastrophic water scarcity caused either by shifting rivers or by drastic climate change.
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India acts big brother to Sri Lanka (Opinion)
By Asad Mirza
Indian policy in the region towards smaller countries, seems to be paying dividends, as compared to China, which is more and more is being seen as a hawk, intent on taking over smaller countries natural resources.
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Markets trading higher than Ukraine war beginning - Allow consolidation to happen
By Arun Kejriwal
The week gone by was a short week with just four trading sessions. Markets saw gains on three of the four trading sessions and gained substantially. BSESENSEX was up 2,313.60 points or 4.16 per cent to close at 57,863.93 points while NIFTY gained 656.60 points or 3.95 per cent to close at 17,287.05 points. The broader indices saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 gain 3.78 per cent, 3.56 per cent and 3.41 per cent, respectively. BSEMIDCAP gained 2.21 per cent, while BSESMALLCAP was up 2.08 per cent.
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A critique of the Hijab Judgment - Perspectives and Dimensions examined
By Adeel Ahmed
We all know the story of Nobel Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani hijab-clad girl who took a bullet in her head, just so that she could go to school. The plight of Indian Muslim women students in Udupi, Karnataka, is near about the same, whove been asked to choose between their religion or education, in light of the recent judgment passed by the High Court of Karnataka, stating that the "hijab is not an essential religious practice in Islam", , while also upholding the Government Order in question which prescribes a uniform to be worn, if prescribed by the schools concerned.
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The Goan election impasse (Opinion)
By Marcellus D
Souza The results of the Goa Assembly were declared on March 10, along with those of the rest of the states that went to the polls -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur. The BJP led by incumbent Chief Minister Pramod Sawant secured 20 seats. It was just one shy of the majority mark in a 40-member Assembly.
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Need to de-communalise religion (Column: Spy's Eye)
By D.C. Pathak
In a democracy, all citizens are on the same footing in the eyes of the state in terms of freedom of religion, equality of civic rights and grant of electoral choice at the time of political contests, whether for Parliament, Assembly or local bodies.
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'The Kashmir Files' reveals tip of the iceberg (Opinion)
By Amjad Ayub Mirza
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The movie released in India called 'The Kashmir Files' is a brave attempt to reveal the atrocities committed by the Pakistan sponsored Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and other Jihadi proxies and with conformity of a significant number of local Islamists in the Valley of Kashmir.
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TN to develop integrated weather development system
Chennai, March 19 (IANS) Tamil Nadu is all set to develop an independent weather forecasting system specific to the state to bridge the gap in the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) forecasting. State Finance Minister, P.T.R. Palanivel Thiagarajan in the state budget on Friday allocated an amount of Rs 10 crore for developing the independent weather forecasting system.
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Can it be Et tu China? That too in Rome! (Opinion)
By Robinder Sachdev
When the US National Security Advisor (NSA) and his NSA counterpart from China, and their delegations met in Rome on March 14, the date reminded your author of the phrase - Beware the ides of March.
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Afghan mineral wealth attracts competitors (Opinion)
By Asad Mirza
Even when the American occupation of Afghanistan was in full steam and apart from the fighting there were mainly reports of the on-going fighting, yet there were secret reports, which spoke of the vast mineral wealth which Afghanistan possesses. There were further reports, which reported questioningly the Americans taking plane-loads of soil from various regions of Afghanistan to get them analysed in their country. Yet, few believed those reports.
