Opinion

PUNJAB CABINET FORMATION APPEARS TO BE INCLUSIVE AND BALANCED

27 Sep 2021 06:08 AM IST

The new Punjab Cabinet appears to be inclusive and aimed at reaping political dividends in next year’s Assembly elections. However, it is too early to predict whether the Congress would be able to keep its flock together, given Captain Amarinder Singh’s dissatisfaction with the party and the omission of his

Taliban takeover and Russia’s strategic miscalculation

27 Sep 2021 06:03 AM IST

Russia will commit a strategic blunder by supporting the Taliban regime as the latter is not the legitimate voice of the Afghan people. This move will further isolate Moscow globally.

YUDHBIR SINGH DADWAL, THE HANDSOME FACE OF DELHI POLICE

25 Sep 2021 06:50 AM IST

Yudhbir Singh Dadwal, a 1974 batch IPS officer was the 16th Police Commissioner of Delhi who served in this position for over three years. His passing away a few days ago brought back several memories, the earliest being my first meeting with him in 1980 when he was the additional DCP

Modi masterstrokes: Telecom reforms and ‘bad bank’

25 Sep 2021 06:48 AM IST

Setting up a ‘bad bank’ and undertaking the telecom reforms are only the added dimensions to the long trajectory of structural and process-driven reforms by the Narendra Modi government, and yes, there is more to come.

WILL PM MODI’S MAGIC WORK ON BIDEN AND HARRIS TOO?

24 Sep 2021 07:07 AM IST

Irrespective of what his diehard detractors might say, PM Narendra Modi has devised his own distinct, characteristic and inimitable charm toolkit which helps him trigger positive vibes in his foreign counterparts and generate personal rapport and chemistry. What can be a more convincing than the fact that he was able

PM Modi’s dynamic leadership and the global re-ordering

24 Sep 2021 07:05 AM IST

In the global re-ordering that is now in the offing and in the unmistakable shift eastward, the compass also points India-ward. As PM Modi embarks on his US tour, the first since the re-ordering began, these dimensions are emerging with certainty.

INDIA SHOULD TAKE RECIPROCAL ACTION AGAINST THE BRITISH BULLY

23 Sep 2021 07:27 AM IST

It would have been amusing to see the United Kingdom flexing its muscles over allowing entry to fully vaccinated Indians—considered unvaccinated by the UK—but for the price Indian students and others have to pay for taking expensive Covid tests, apart from the inconvenience of quarantining for 10 days. Amusing because

Courtroom’s visionary indigence on professional women

23 Sep 2021 07:26 AM IST

Answers to myriad perplexing questions which are profoundly significant in the interest of justice rather emerge in the minds of judges and not the law books. Judges can make an effort to combine legal pluralism with litigation theory in laws for women empowerment.

THE HIGH COMMAND STRIKES BACK

22 Sep 2021 03:12 AM IST

We are seeing the rise of a very centralised High Command both in the Congress and the BJP. Of course, with the BJP this has been firmly in place for the last seven years, ever since Narendra Modi took office as Prime Minister. Hence the shuffling of Chief Ministers, from

Making a perceptible change in Uttar Pradesh

22 Sep 2021 03:05 AM IST

The Yogi Adityanath-led government has performed admirably in all spheres because the Chief Minister led from the front. Success has not been accidental. He has been a forthright, upfront and a dedicated leader, and his efforts have culminated into deliverables.

INDIA MUST SHED RETICENCE ABOUT QUAD AS A SECURITY ALLIANCE

21 Sep 2021 03:22 AM IST

Beijing is angry that the first in-person Quad summit among the leaders of India, United States, Japan and Australia is taking place this week in Washington, on 24 September, Friday. Beijing is unnerved at the possibility of the Quad taking a formal shape and is calling it a grouping based

Time’s 100 list: PM Modi cannot be pigeonholed

21 Sep 2021 03:19 AM IST

One would be surprised if Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not figure in any list prepared by any select people in the list of influential global leaders. But equally surprising is the opinion of CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria wherein he has said that PM Modi “has pushed the country (India)