Opinion

INDIA MUST KEEP ITS OPTIONS OPEN ON BRICS

07 Jul 2022 01:04 AM IST

There is some speculation about the direction that the BRICS platform comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China, is taking. The “three pillars” of BRICS are “Political and Security”, “Economic and Financial” and “Cultural and People-to-people exchanges”. In reality, the thrust of BRICS has always been economic—specifically, encouraging commercial and developmental

Harassment of ‘cannabis offenders’ calls for amendment of the Narcotics Act

07 Jul 2022 01:03 AM IST

One of the major concerns is how police treats the offenders caught under the NDPS Act. A big question arises: why don’t we legalise cannabis and tax it like tobacco and alcohol?

Maharashtra thriller is not the first of its kind, nor will it be the last

07 Jul 2022 01:00 AM IST

Maybe it’s a good time to remember the celebrated playwright George Bernard Shaw’s words: “Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at 30 is an even bigger fool. We should have had socialism already, but

BJP HERE TO STAY

06 Jul 2022 01:12 AM IST

At the BJP National Executive in Hyderabad, Home Minister Amit Shah made an interesting comment—that the way he sees it the BJP is here to stay for the next three decades. There is no breaking news in this statement for the way the Congress is going it is clear that

Team Modi should involve end stakeholders to push reforms

06 Jul 2022 01:10 AM IST

If PM Modi’s natural style is ‘just do it, and do it fast’, now the government needs to pay greater attention to change management to make the reforms more acceptable.

ALL LIVES MATTER, HINDU LIVES INCLUDED

05 Jul 2022 06:09 AM IST

Just when one thought that western legacy media had already hit the nadir with its tendentious coverage of India and India’s majority community, in comes another report that is so mendacious in its interpretation of facts that it plumbs new depths of insensitivity and treads into the territory of religiophobia.

No party can dislodge the BJP for 40 years

05 Jul 2022 06:08 AM IST

Union Minister Amit Shah’s statement that the BJP needs to stay in power for another 30-40 years for setting things right, should not be taken lightly. The BJP will use the time to end dynastic and caste politics, and the politics of appeasement.

POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SHOULD STOP ATTACKING THE APEX COURT

04 Jul 2022 04:29 AM IST

Soon after a Division Bench of the Supreme Court virtually indicted suspended BJP spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, for her remarks about the Prophet, right wing activists took to the social media to target the judiciary. This unfortunate attack on the Apex court and its two learned Judges, Justice Surya Kant and

Modi at eight: The Varanasi model

04 Jul 2022 04:27 AM IST

The last few years have been momentous in the history of Varanasi. Not only has the city given India one of its most popular and powerful Prime Ministers ever, but it has also witnessed rapid development that only an MP of Narendra Modi’s stature can usher in.

New global partnerships in making

02 Jul 2022 04:14 AM IST

CHINA VS US Last week in his address on 22 June at the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the next day, on 23 June at BRICS Summit in Beijing, the Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need to forge greater synergy amongst countries for greater international development and

KANHAIYA LAL’S BEHEADING HAS VERY WIDE AND WORRYING RAMIFICATIONS

02 Jul 2022 04:08 AM IST

The gruesome and gory beheading of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor by two Islamist fundamentalists in Udaipur has very wide, far reaching and worrying ramifications for the future of this country. While the National Investigation Agency probing the Terror act is yet to conclusively point towards the international dimensions of the

G7 FOCUS ON CHINA A SHOT IN THE ARM FOR INDIA

01 Jul 2022 06:39 AM IST

Even though the Ukraine invasion and sanctions on Russia dominated the deliberations at the G7 Summit in Germany, the leaders of the group of seven wealthiest nations of the world—the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan—focused on Beijing’s belligerence and human rights violations in China in what