Opinion

Don’t let the Ukraine war hijack G20

10 Nov 2022 02:12 AM IST

This month will mark the culmination of Indonesia’s G20 presidency. India takes over the presidency for a year from 1 December. Next week’s G20 leaders’ summit will take place in Bali, Indonesia, where the leaders of the 20 countries—actually 19 and the European Union—that are a part of G20 will

Uniform Civil Code: Its need, reality and politics

10 Nov 2022 02:10 AM IST

The Gujarat government has recently approved the formation of a committee to implement the Uniform Civil Code, commonly known as UCC. The committee will be headed by a retired HC judge and will consist of three to four members. Earlier, the BJP governments in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh had also

The Gujarat Imbroglio

09 Nov 2022 02:28 AM IST

Which way will the Gujarat election go? Given that this is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home court where he is the main issue and the chief campaigner, very few expect the BJP to lose the state, despite a 27-year anti-incumbency. Add to that a low profile Congress campaign and a

New dynamics of contemporary geopolitics: Welfarism versus corporate welfarism of war lobbies

09 Nov 2022 02:27 AM IST

The world watches through the economic recession being announced across the continents with unimaginable but discrete hegemony of the billionaires in the policy making realms. Everyone understands the invincible network of casino capitalism stipulating every move towards making the best use of technological tools and policy mechanisms to sideline welfarism

Band-aid actions can’t fix Delhi’s air pollution woes

09 Nov 2022 02:25 AM IST

Every winter, Delhiites gasp to breathe during winters. The air reaches levels which aggravate respiratory issues causing difficulty in breathing. In India, 1.67 million deaths were attributed to air pollution in 2019, accounting for 17.8 per cent of the total deaths in the country. As a resident of Delhi and

Byelection results are a story of Congress’ irrelevance

08 Nov 2022 03:12 AM IST

If Sunday’s byelection results have sent out any message, the primary one is of the increasing irrelevance of the Congress, which did not win even a single seat. It contested the bypolls in Haryana, Odisha and Telangana, and lost everywhere it had contested. It hit the nadir by getting a

Zero Tillage may be a promising solution to tackle the stubble burning problem

08 Nov 2022 03:11 AM IST

Tried in West Bengal on wheat and jute with encouraging acceptance by farmers, zero tillage requires mechanical sowing of seeds while knocking off stubble from the previous crop simultaneously.

Stubble burning: Blame lies with the states

08 Nov 2022 03:07 AM IST

Political compulsions cannot be an excuse to jeopardise the health of citizens. Leaders must show the way and not bury their heads in sand at sighting resistance.

COP27 must consider compensation to poor countries

07 Nov 2022 23:56 PM IST

The COP27, the ongoing UN climate talks, is likely to highlight the compensation system for poorer countries known as “loss and damage”, caused by the Climate Change. It is a fact, corroborated by various UN and independent reports that Climate Change over the last 25 years particularly has caused costly

Uniform Civil Code:<br>It is progressive

Uniform Civil Code:
It is progressive

07 Nov 2022 23:40 PM IST

In the absence of an UCC, justice has to be served on a case-by-case basis which is both impractical and time-consuming whereas having a common civil code would ensure quicker justice.

BJP-AAP to confront each other in the Delhi Municipal Polls

07 Nov 2022 10:37 AM IST

With the Congress unable to assert itself in the national capital, the battle for the control of a unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi would be fought mainly between the BJP and AAP, which is seeking to consolidate its position after winning the Assembly elections very convincingly two times in the

AS GERMAN FM TO VISIT INDIA, DELHI MUST SEEK STRONG MESSAGE AGAINST PAK

05 Nov 2022 00:01 AM IST

With Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock likely to visit India in December, New Delhi will have a much-needed opportunity to have a terse statement from her, slamming terrorism emanating from the territory under Pakistan’s control. As the German FM is said to be keen to put to rest the controversy