Given that it costs over Rs 10 crore ($100 million) to train a fighter pilot, worries about women running off on maternity leave might be partly justified.
Obama’s officials seem to believe that his policies of engagement and concession will reap their country benefits down the road.
The prospects of a respite in food inflation appear dim. In 2008, grain prices joined the sharp spike in commodity prices the world over.
Coming from the land that made us change Mao Tse-Tung to Mao Zedong and Peking to Beijing — not to mention Tibet to Tibetan Autonomous Region — one should have thought that more important matters related to US-China ties would grab attention than spelling a Kenyan name.
Food prices can be lowered if we cut down on eating. We’ll be fitter and doing that ‘austere thing’ as well.
The Fonseka crisis will test post-war Sri Lanka and India’s regional diplomacy.
‘Tribal land grabs’ aren’t just an ‘NGO’ theory. The Centre also believes injustice is being done.
The massive rounds of elections this year have thrown up a decisive mandate — that of people-centric governance. And the biggest challenge here will be to focus on the most marginalised among all sections and communities, namely women.
As Christian theologians debate about how to address aliens, we are prepared. For we know we’re all aliens.
UP’s bypoll results show that voters aren’t enamoured with old-style politics anymore.
Inflation is signalling an end to spend-and-borrow budgeting. About time too...
He may come under fire from pacifists, but Mikhail Kalashnikov is a sure shot for history.
Manu Sharma’s parole should make us uncomfortable about how the law works.
There’s a standard rule pertaining to criminal deterrence: break the law, go to jail. But that seems to be just one side of this rule of law, considering that there’s a corollary: be rich and well-connected if you break the law; even prison can’t hold you then.
The Left’s defeat comes not as a surprise but as confirmation of an existential crisis. In the face of an aggressive Trinamool Congress and the Congress, the red citadel continues to crumble in both Kerala and West Bengal.
Spokesmen of Maoist extremism have recently expressed regret for beheading a police officer and explained their actions as a defence of the oppressed. Their comrades’ brutality, they say, is an aberration, writes Dilip Simeon.