Opinion

While regions around famed temples have a booming economy, this 70-year delay in the verdict has deprived the people of Ayodhya and eastern UP from generating revenue.

If the pollution caused instant deaths triggering a huge toll of lives, perhaps the government would be forced to act. But slow poisoning is a long-term problem and governments don’t care because they live and act in the short-term.

If the sales of BPCL, Air India, and Shipping Corporation go through, they will be a big boost to reforms and the flagging Indian economy.

What has gained Thresia the sainthood is not her ability to levitate, but the 'proof' of a dying child regaining life after a relic of Thresia was placed on the child’s heart.

IUC was conceived as a temporary fee to compensate all companies for having made investments in telecom networks. The consumer paid his operator for making an outgoing call, and the operator paid 6 paise a minute to the counterpart where the call terminat...

Music band U2 is coming to Mumbai and everyone seems to be in a frenzied hurry to get the tickets or passes for the concert.

Having positioned the DMK on a strong ideological collision course with the Centre, Stalin has left little room for himself to manoeuvre with the BJP.

Café Coffee Day, one of the businesses of Coffee Day Enterprises Limited, opened its first cafe in 1996 in Bangalore. It attracted the youth who immediately took to the cafe, and from thereon it continued to be one of the most vibrant places across the co...

The intent behind the reorganisation of the state is unambiguously clear — to fulfill the demands made by the people of Ladakh for giving it the status of a UT and effectively countering cross-border state-sponsored terrorism plaguing J&K for decades.

Sheila Dikshit had two qualities that successful leaders have - one was to empower bureaucrats, the second was that she wanted to improve things and was prepared to take ‘hard’ decisions, wherever required.

If the government borrows in foreign currency, then in order to spend it domestically it will have to get the same converted into rupee from the Reserve Bank of India. This is bound to increase risk of inflation in the country.

Insiders claim that the new Congress president is expected to keep the seat warm until one of the Gandhis is ready to take back control.

On June 15, 1995, it rained 1,565 mm in a 24-hour cloud burst in Meghalaya’s Cherrapunji, setting a world record for the rainiest day on earth.

Mayawati is positioning the BSP for 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections to emerge as the second largest party in the state. She is also trying to convince Muslims that only her party can fight the BJP.

The political commentators and analyst have so far chosen to ignore the impact and efficacy of the political plank 'Sab Ka Saath' that brought fundamental change and paradigm shift in electoral politics of India.

The Modi-Shah binary may limit upward mobility, but then, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani did so from the inception of the BJP in 1980 to 2004.