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    In NDA bloc, JD(U) sets terms of engagement | Opinion

    opinion
    Updated on Jun 17, 2019 02:50 IST
    Having secured and encashed a respectable seat-sharing agreement with the BJP in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, Nitish Kumar is gearing up for next year’s assembly elections, which will be crucial for his future and that of his party’s. (Photo by@Jduonline)

    A moderate tax rate is a win-win situation for all

    While the Goods and Services Tax council did its best to smoothen the process, enforcement has not kept pace with the speed of implementation
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 16, 2019 14:49 IST

    Is law failing our children?

    People protest against the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu’s Kathua region, at Parliament Street, New Delhi, on April 15, 2018.
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 16, 2019 14:45 IST

    The tiger conservation policy needs a paradigm shift

    Tigers living outside reserves need attention. We need better surveillance measures, more information gathering and better coordination among states to protect our tiger population. Can we imagine India without tigers?
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 15, 2019 17:07 IST

    Can Modi win the minorities’ trust?

    Will he now rein in his colleagues who are prone to hate speak? When he speaks from the Red Fort on August 15, will there be more welcome surprises for the minorities?
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 15, 2019 17:06 IST

    The Transgender Persons Bill misses key demands of the community

    Members from transgender community protesting against the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, New Delhi, December 17, 2017
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 15, 2019 14:03 IST

    The political response to India’s water emergency is tepid

    People wait for their turn to fill their containers, Sanjay Colony, Okhla Phase II, New Delhi, June 12
    opinion
    Updated on Jun 14, 2019 14:47 IST

    Opinion | Imran needs a change in strategy and new pair of spectacles to read Modi’s India

    Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a session during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan June 14, 2019.
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 14, 2019 12:00 IST

    The Union budget must incentivise long-term household savings

    Man counting college savings fund, tuition fee or student loan with calculator. Education price and expenses concept. Money and papers on table. Calculating budget and planning finance.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 14, 2019 03:10 IST

    No one can discount military power

    In 1990, Joseph Nye put forth the idea of soft power as an important force in international relations. There is no doubt that in this information age, soft power has its uses, but military power still remains the most essential component of a State’s ability to defend its national interests
    analysis
    Published on Jun 13, 2019 12:50 IST

    Build an ecosystem, not just industrial islands

    Our approach should be that of building an ecosystem, not industrial islands. For the manufacturing sector to thrive, we would need connected and efficient value chains spanning raw material providers, technology providers, trained workforce at all levels, multi-speciality service providers, research and development centres and the crucial logistics infrastructure
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 13, 2019 13:07 IST

    India’s future prosperity depends on extending opportunities to farmers

    Over 20% of our farmers live below the poverty line. Evidence suggests that the speed with which the agriculture sector reduces rural poverty is at least twice of what the rest of the economy and when growth in agriculture is rejuvenated, poverty decline became faster.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 12, 2019 14:29 IST

    The failure of the BSP-SP alliance is not about vote transfers

    The reason for the break up of the BSP-SP alliance (
    analysis
    Published on Jun 12, 2019 14:29 IST

    Pakistan is on a path of its own

    Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan applauses as he is observes the fly-past by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) JF-17 Thunder fighter jet during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan March 23, 2019
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 13, 2019 10:15 IST

    The problems of regulating digital markets

    Digital markets have unique characteristics. The network externalities that help an Uber attract more cab drivers as its user base grows, and vice versa, or the feedback loops that let Google improve its search engine the more search data it captures, mean that market concentration is inevitable
    analysis
    Published on Jun 12, 2019 02:57 IST

    PPPs may help to ensure universal health coverage

    There is a shortfall of 20% sub-centres, 22% public health centres and 32% community health centres in India.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 12, 2019 02:53 IST

    Can IAS become an agent of change?

    Will a risk-averse, status-quoist bureaucracy rise to the occasion?
    analysis
    Published on Jun 11, 2019 11:57 IST

    What the Kargil War teaches India about its national security

    Kargil War, 1999. The most important lesson that India learnt from the Kargil imbroglio is that the essential requirements of national security should not be compromised
    analysis
    Published on Jun 10, 2019 14:49 IST

    How China’s Sputnik moment can be India’s big break

    Chinese companies will need to find new markets to reduce their reliance on America. With our size and capabilities, India is a natural prize
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 10, 2019 15:13 IST

    West Bengal has put Mamata on notice

    The 2019 result demolished many myths about West Bengal’s political behaviour
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 10, 2019 15:13 IST

    Prisons must do more to help their women inmates

    Prisons were clearly designed, keeping in mind only male inmates. The concept of having women inmates, accompanied at times by their children, came at a much later stage. Prison authorities are yet to accept having a separate library for women inmates.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 10, 2019 02:30 IST

    Children will not learn in a hegemonised system

    There’s no single “Indian” system of knowledge but several “Indian systems” of knowledge, beginning with the adivasi knowledge systems, which the world is scrambling to understand since it possibly holds the key to climate change and sustainable living.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 10, 2019 02:28 IST

    Why India must expand its immunisation coverage

    The NITI Aayog identified 100 programmes that support the targets, and asked India Consensus, a partnership between Tata Trusts and Copenhagen Consensus, to utilise its network of economists and experts to assess the costs and benefits
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 8, 2019 12:35 IST

    Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919

    Free from any discipline of the memorial to observe decorum, visitors picnic merrily in the shaded colonnades
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 7, 2019 16:31 IST

    India’s pursuit of a leading power status is linked to its role in the neighbourhood

    The Narendra Modi government and its foreign policy team led by the external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, will have to deal with a much more complex external environment as compared to Modi’s first term
    analysis
    Published on Jun 6, 2019 14:49 IST

    Building an ecosystem for India’s skill development

    Small enterprises will need hyper-local and flexible training models. Moreover, the system will also need to recognize skills obtained through traditional apprenticeship and other non-formal channels
    analysis
    Published on Jun 6, 2019 14:47 IST

    RBI needs to work on improving monetary policy transmission

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting is expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. This will follow the two 25 basis point rate cuts in the previous two MPC meetings of the RBI. A cut in the policy rate will be welcome but needs to see a much stronger transmission to interest rates in the economy.
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 6, 2019 03:25 IST

    Administrative reforms not possible without support from the top

    Various attempts have been made over the years to reform administration. Two Administrative Reforms Commissions have made hundreds of recommendations. A number of committees, task forces and the like have made their own contributions.There have been experiments,too, most of which have flourished over short periods of time and then faded away
    analysis
    Published on Jun 6, 2019 03:21 IST

    Modi won because he delivered on his promises

    Narendra Modi managed to create history by becoming India’s first reformist prime minister to be voted back to power, and that too, with a bigger mandate
    analysis
    Updated on Jun 5, 2019 13:22 IST

    Jaishankar has his work cut out

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump, Manila, The Philippines, 2017.
    analysis
    Published on Jun 5, 2019 03:16 IST
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