Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so......
No process can offer a panacea for ethnic conflict, but there are times at which a legal process could work to defuse violence, asserts Supreme Court lawyer Devvrat. IMAGE: Women burn effigies......
The Xi Jinping regime might try to quell internal distress by directing nationalism and militarism against India, warn Ajay Shah and Gautam Bambawale. IMAGE: The Indian Army conducted Operation......
'There is a cost to war.''The West knows that and so does Putin.''The point is, how much of the cost are both sides willing to pay?' IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a......
India's negotiating posture at multilateral negotiations should be aligned with a significantly transformed development strategy domestically.The positions the country takes at the negotiations......
At a time when crude oil and natural gas prices are sky-high, public sector behemoth ONGC's haphazard planning and mismanagement in developing showpiece deep-sea KG-D5 block is costing the nation......
Cheque payments will be safer; the limit for contactless card transactions hiked.Bindisha Sarang reports. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Several rules that have a bearing on your......
A 9-minute lights-out by most of households on Sunday evening can potentially collapse the grid due to sudden drop and then a quick surge after the event. But to manage the dramatic changes......
A report authored by UN’s panel of scientists from across the world on climate change and sent to the governments of 197 countries has ominous news on the climate change front. Nitin Sethi......
To better understand what is going on, it may be useful to break up the problem into four different (but related) parts: setbacks to major reform efforts; slowdown in other reforms; inaction or......