Opinion

The state has witnessed sporadic protests since the SC order and the CPM-led state government’s uncompromising stand on implementing the verdict has now opened the door for extreme Hindutva outfits to barge in.

Criminalising consensual sexual relations is not the only provision that makes the law archaic: It allows only a man to prosecute another man for the act of committing adultery with his wife.

If RSS bothers to probe further, it will know that a large number of influential Islamic scholars and seminaries have all along believed in “one nation theory”.

As relatives argued, I knew I was doing the right thing. I had to be with him. So I walked in with his mortal remains and into the cremation ground at Delhi’s Lodhi Road crematorium.

NDA candidate Harivansh’s election as the new Rajya Sabha deputy chairman is not just about another feat of the NDA in the absence of not so united opposition.

More than 4.7 million married women submitted panchayat certificate as linkage document. Women applicants s were marked as ‘original inhabitant’ or ‘OI’—a privileged category— and they were exempted from the stringent verification process. But despite bei...

The bill has already created a polarisation between the predominantly Assamese speaking Brahmaputra valley and the Bengali speaking Barak valley comprising the three districts of Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj.

It is true that the Army cannot win this war on its own. Air and naval power will play a hugely significant role and jointness in operations must be encouraged. Equally true is the fact that strengthening of the Army cannot come at the cost of the other t...

The regional satraps have made it clear that their sympathies lie with embattled Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal rather than the Congress.

The successive polls —third in a row — would be among her everlasting contributions to Pakistan politics. It will be in accordance with the legacy of legacy of the founding fathers who sought Pakistan to be an egalitarian state.

The lateral entry initiative will come to naught if it does not lead to the abolition of all tenured civil services, including the IAS and replacement with a modern machine of government.

Haasan met Kumaraswamy in the backdrop of the call given by the Confederation of pro-Kannada organisations, opposing the release of Rajinikanth's 'Kaala' in Karnataka.

The BJP strategy to quickly install the party's government in the key southern state has given a boost to the badly divided opposition to close ranks for diverse reasons.

The Governor has to satisfy himself that the leader can secure majority. It is not that the Governor has absolute discretion and he can pick up someone from the street, make him a CM and ask him to prove it later.

Probably, the last of the editors, who believed in keeping intact a wall between editorial independence and business, Mr Singh was a fighter, who saw The Statesman through the dark, dark days of the Emergency. He was the only editor, as far as I know, who...

The need of the hour is to chalk out a plan and a common minimum programme without fighting for the face of the platform.