Taxi drivers need speedy addressal to their concerns so that they can go about doing their job, commuters will breathe a sigh of relief and the companies would be able to function hassle-free. Competition Commission of India (CCI), should intervene immediately and order an investigation.

Opinion: CCI should intervene immediately to bring relief to taxi drivers, commuters

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently laid the stone for a few infrastructure projects to be developed for the region

Balochistan?s new development projects to counter unrest and create prosperity

On National Science Day, the question remains whether India’s scientific establishment is largely exclusionary in nature

Opinion: Is there gender equality in Indian science?

Priya Varrier takes us on that journey where the innocence of childhood is not lost but neither has one gained the pronounced sexuality of an adult.

Opinion: Priya Varrier's idyllic face and hint of sexuality capture nation's imagination

Modi, in one sweeping stroke, wanted to completely discredit the Congress. From the Partition to corruption, according to PM Modi, everything marks the failure of the Congress to stand as a plausible political alternative to the BJP.

Opinion: Why this Kolaveri di, Mr Modi?

Without a clearcut policy stemming from the Budget, the chances are the chasm between rural and urban India will continue to grow, putting the current government in deep political crisis.

Opinion: Will the Budget help India's struggling farmers?

Ahmedabad represents Modi's future plan for India. It shows India's enterprising nature at its best.

Opinion: Why Modi takes Netanyahu to Ahmedabad?

Much of what Vivekananda said can well be accommodated within the ideological folds of a modern nation-state. Vivekananda is religious without being communal; he pleaded for the poor without accusing the rich; he was a sannyasi without being a recluse.

Opinion: Why Swami Vivekananda is significant for the Indian state

Let the State Department come out with travel advisories, but let it not clip your wings. The world is a beautiful place.

Opinion: Why US travel advisory should not affect your travel plans

On his way to the Islamabad airport, they tried harming him, tried to shoot him, threatened him of taking his life. Taha escaped.

Opinion: Taha Siddiqui's failed abduction. Fearless journalism is costly in Pakistan

The Trump administration is here surely washing its hands off of all the legal immigrants, meritorious or not, aspiring to be American citizens.

Opinion: New H1B rules may put the 'Promised Land' out of bounds for Indians

"Every institution and individual thinks that it will not happen to them; hence, continue to ignore the basic fire safety"

Opinion: Apathy and corruption fuel fire in India

The moment state's agenda becomes the media's agenda, the dangers are that journalists become apologists of the state.?

Opinion: Why Pakistani press was so brutal to Kulbhushan's family

Narendra Modi successfully turned the 6 per cent wavering voter of Gujarat through his emotional appeals and politicking against which the INC failed to come up with an appropriate electoral strategy.

Opinion: In spite of GST, how Modi won Gujarat

The devotees and others visit Amarnath out of sheer emotional needs, to satisfy their spiritual quest. The rules should retain the essence of the place and not do away with it.?

Opinion: Let's save Amarnath, not destroy its religious essence

The women of Afghanistan, long oppressed and denied of their basic rights, are now fighting for their rights. And India is turning to be a valuable partner in this effort.

India makes soldiers out of Afghan women to fight Taliban

On that day, the Parliament of India -- the very nerve centre of the country's democracy -- was attacked by terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed

December 13, 2001: The day the heart of India's democracy was attacked

When I asked one of the soldiers why she came to India, pat came the reply, 'to kill Taliban'.?

Afghan women soldiers training under Indian Army 'to kill Taliban'

The minorities appear as not only different but dangerous-a threat to the purity of the cultural identity of the majority community.

Opinion: Why Muhammad has to die for love

In an age of unreason, Ambedkar emphasised the need to fight authoritarianism and dogmas with scientific rationality.

Opinion: Why Ambedkar's life and teaching is still relevant

To fulfill his election promises and to pacify a large number of his orthodox influential voters, Trump is ready to let an already volatile region go further down the extremist way.?

Opinion: Trump is wrong; Israel alone can't claim Jerusalem

Social custom is as much to be blamed as poverty for the perpetuation of child marriage in India.

Opinion: A child needs parents, not a husband

Phule argued that education of women and the lower castes were a vital priority in addressing social inequality.

Opinion: Remembering Jyotiba Phule in a conflicted time

If India's public spaces are made more hospitable to people with special needs, it will definitely help to challenge the taboo against physically disabled.

Opinion: Modi praises blind cricketers but is India sensitive to the disabled

The Global Terrorism index states that over the past 15 years, South Asia experienced the most terrorist activity.

Opinion: Pakistan fuels global terrorism in releasing Hafiz Saeed

Rukhmabai should be remembered for the role she played in underlining the plight of child marriage

Opinion: With 71 mn child marriages, we need more Rukhmabais

Padmavati is a universal symbol of all chaste Hindu women. That is the reason Padmavati shall not dance.

Rani Padmavati shall not dance. But why?

The Dakota pipeline project reveals that developmental objectives of the nation-state take precedence over people's choice

Oil spill in South Dakota: Why it is scary

The fight over Rosogolla is actually a cultural battle; a tussle over an urban and a more rural version of Rosogolla.

Madhumita Saha