By: A.G. Noorani ABSOLUTE monarchs wield legislative and executive power. Democracies do not and cannot. It is amazing that the framers of India’s constitution blindly endowed the governments at the...

By: Imtiaz Gul Pakistan currently resembles the biblical Goliath; big and armed to teeth but stymied by a myriad of factors such as inaction, inefficiency, institutional paralysis, inter-institutional tug of...

By: Ulka Anjaria A conference was held recently at Delhi University to commemorate 50 years of Shrilal Shukla’s Hindi novel Raag Darbari. Shukla was an IAS officer who wrote Raag...

BY:Rashid Paul Srinagar, Mar 02: Keeping in view the annoyance caused to general public by the street vendors and business establishments who have encroached upon the pavements and road sides,...

  By: Bharat Bhushan Instead of carrying forward the legacy of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions have seriously eroded the constituency for peace, dialogue...

By: Towseef Ahmad The actions that yield the greatest good to the society are termed as utilitarian actions. The moral and egalitarian approaches encompass the stratification of moral interface and...

By: Arshad Alam In many ways, the Batla House ‘encounter’ was a defining moment for the residents of the area and the larger Muslim community in India. For the migrant...

  By: Syed Badrul Ahsan Two incidents across Bangladesh’s border with India have led to consternation and raised questions in Dhaka. The West Bengal food and supplies minister, Jyotipriyo Mallick,...

By: Haroon Khalid Surrounded by thousands of others, there is nothing remarkable about the grave of Dulla Bhatti, on a raised platform, plastered with cement under the shade of an...

Jammu, March 01: Two soldiers were injured today when Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire and shells along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri districts, an official...