The Supreme Court’s landmark verdict decriminalising consensual gay sex marks an important milestone in the country’s journey towards upholding individual rights and freedom. The long struggle by the LGBT community for dignity and self-respect has come to fruition with the five-judge bench of the apex court unanimously deciding to scrap the col

The decision of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government to seek an early public mandate reflects a measure of confidence in its holistic welfare policies, a sense of sure-footedness about its ability to win the hearts of the people with a positive agenda. A strong developmental narrative is already in place with the benefits reaching every s

Though manufacturing and consumer spending contributed to GDP growth in Q1, the outlook for jobs remains lacklustre

Instead of a common civil code, a more practical approach would be to iron out the wrinkles in the social fabric

Pakistan's proposal to resolve Kashmir conflict can work only if it dismantles terror infrastructure on its soil

Instead of enforcing bureaucratic controls over global tech companies, it's preventive policing and awareness that will work

With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finally concluding that 99.3% of the demonetised notes have come back to the banks, questions will be raised over whether the note ban was worth the disruption and the pain that it had caused to the general public. The banks have received Rs 15.30 lakh crore while only Rs 10,760 crore, constituting a mere 0.7% o

Unorganised sector has a predominant role in shaping people’s lives, and thus the GDP number can at best be a rough approximation

If the EVMs can be rigged in favour of the ruling party at the Centre, then one wonders why the BJP lost Assembly elections in Delhi and Punjab

Congress president should have made a sincere admission of the wrongdoings of his party leaders in the anti-Sikh pogrom

The social stigma surrounding mental health often forces many patients in India to suffer in silence. The support systems are woefully inadequate because it is a taboo to even talk about mental health problems. Given such a scenario, the decision of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) to include mental illnesses under health i

The twin developments -- Cohen’s guilty plea and Manafort’s conviction -- will have a devastating impact on Trump’s presidency

The Kerala government is justified in pushing the Centre to accept the gracious offer of assistance made by the UAE

The discovery of water ice on the moon by Chandrayaan-1 makes it possible to set up a permanent base station there

Misreading the goodwill communication from PM Modi reflects clumsiness of the new regime headed by Imran

Sidhu's action was not a question of following certain diplomatic niceties but a matter that concerns the core of one’s national pride

The unfolding tragedy in the flood-ravaged Kerala, where over 245 people have lost their lives and vast swathes of the God’s Own Country remain inundated, is a man-made disaster; an outcome of an irresponsible environmental policy. People are bearing the brunt of the collective failure of successive governments to learn lessons from the past. End

Telangana, the country’s youngest State, has been a trailblazer in terms of implementing welfare schemes that have a transformational impact on the lives of people. No wonder then that several programmes conceived by the State government have become a role model for others in the country. The Centre seeking inputs from Telangana on formulating th

Vajpayee was perhaps the only contemporary Indian leader who had no enemies

The recent tales of horror emerging from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have once again brought under scanner the functioning of shelter homes for destitute girls and women. The issue is acquiring political overtones in Bihar with the demand for resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar growing over the callousness of the government in dealing with the f