Opinion

Rahul’s yatra: Too little, too late for a fragile Congress

26 Nov 2022 00:05 AM IST

Just before India’s independence, the Congress party in 1939 faced its first biggest crisis. Subhas Chandra Bose was elected as President of Indian National Congress during the party’s session in Madhya Pradesh’s Tripuri. Bose had won the elections by securing 1580 votes defeating Dr Pattabhi Sitaramayya who managed 1377 votes.

Akal Takht Jathedars meet to clear confusion over crucial dates

26 Nov 2022 00:03 AM IST

An important meeting has been convened at the Akal Takht on Saturday to provide greater clarity to Sikh devotees over the dates of both Guru Gobind Singh ji’s Prakash utsav and the day of sacrifice of his brave Sahibzadas. As of now the dates of these two very significant events

High time world spoke in one voice against nations backing terror

25 Nov 2022 00:15 AM IST

As India is set to observe the 14th anniversary of the 26/11 terrorist attack on Saturday, the international community must speak in one voice against terrorism and the countries supporting this scourge. The countries which provide safe havens to terror organisations must be condemned and rebuked. On this day, the

Europe discriminating against India on issue of Pak terror

25 Nov 2022 00:15 AM IST

The war in Ukraine is troubling. There are excesses by both sides and over time both, if not Russia alone, may be found by the International Court of Justice to have committed war crimes. The deliberate destruction of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure is extremely unacceptable, as well. While all this may

Congress should have begun a ‘party jodo’ yatra

25 Nov 2022 00:15 AM IST

Congress, the grand old party, should have planned a “Party Jodo” yatra instead of a Bharat Jodo Yatra. This misstep is just one among many taken by the party. Congress has a new president, a party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge. Rahul Gandhi embarked on his 3,570 km Bharat Jodo Yatra just

This is India’s time, don’t blow it

24 Nov 2022 00:30 AM IST

China has ceased to be the world’s best place for business, a fact that is more than apparent by now. The tide started to turn from 2020, when with the onset of Covid, China shut down city after city, disrupting supply chains the world over. Everyone got a rude wake-up

Perspectives on bioremediation and eco-friendly lifestyle

24 Nov 2022 00:30 AM IST

Ecological balance is essential for the human survival on the earth. Ecology encompasses every being in this world. Each of these beings may be inseparable part of visible organisms or invisible microbes remaining indispensable to sustain the ecological systems of recycling and soil enrichment. Our social and cultural spheres of

Chinese aggression in IOR poses global threat

24 Nov 2022 00:30 AM IST

T he presence of Chinese surveillance ships Yuan Wang 5 in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port in August 2022 followed by another attempt by PLA Navy to place spy ship Yuan Wang 6 in the Indian Ocean into India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and near Andaman islands in the first week

THE GUJARAT POLL NARRATIVE

23 Nov 2022 00:11 AM IST

The battle for Gujarat got all the more interesting with the presence of two BJP chief ministers (and the party’s star campaigners) into the electoral battlefield. Both the UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma have been campaigning in Prime Minister Modi’s homestate. But their focus was

Is intolerance, insensitivity towards relationships, marriage leading to Aaftab-like cases?

23 Nov 2022 00:11 AM IST

A criminal has no religion. Recently, we have seen two cases of quite similar nature which shook the entire nation. The first one is the Shraddha Walkar murder case and the next one is the Aradhana Prajapati murder case from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. In both the gruesome murder cases,

Deciphering the mind of killers like Aaftab

23 Nov 2022 00:10 AM IST

The gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar by Aaftab Poonawala has captured the mindspace of the nation. And there is a ripple effect with more stories of such gruesome killings of humans and animals especially dogs, and cows- pups and calves being reported. Love Jihad is being flouted as the reason

Qatar proving to be unfit to host the World Cup

22 Nov 2022 00:05 AM IST

What is Qatar’s claim to football-fame for it to be the host of one of the biggest international sporting events, the FIFA World Cup? One win in an Asia Cup tournament in 2019 out of ten such appearances? As it became apparent at Sunday’s inaugural match, the Qataris were no