BJP’s social engineering triumphs in Haryana

Chandigarh: From social realignment to strategic gains,...

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PM Modi scripting a Win-Win policy in Southern Asia

New Delhi: Both Laos and Cambodia can see the difference between the way India under Modi is conducting its diplomacy and China under Xi, including within ASEAN. While China has been seeking to break the fundamentally strong ties between India and its South Asian neighbours, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, assisted...

‘Israeli attack on Iran imminent, with US coordination’

New Delhi: Hezbollah was planning to launch ‘Conquer the Galilee’, which would have been an October 7, 2023 Hamas-like attack on Israeli civilians, only much worse. Israel’s strike on Iran for the 1 October missile attack on Israeli territory is imminent and will happen with the coordination of the Americans, sources in Israel tell this newspaper. It is only the scale of the attack that is being debated. It is likely to be spectacular—something no one in the region, or the world, will miss. But an attack there will be—“deadly, precise and above all surprising” as promised by the Benjamin...

China continues its aggressive policies in the Indo-Pacific

New Delhi: Beijing has been making efforts ever since it assessed it had an opportunity after the global economic downturn in 2008, to alter the present global world order. Chinese...

UK government pushes for quick FTA with India

New Delhi: The negotiations between India and the United Kingdom over the Free Trade Agreement, which had stalled due to the general elections in both countries, have resumed with the...

BJP’s social engineering triumphs in Haryana

Chandigarh: From social realignment to strategic gains, BJP’s decade-long plan bears fruit. Defying the odds and overturning Haryana’s traditional political power dynamics, the BJP has staged an extraordinary political transformation in Haryana—turning it into a fertile ground for the saffron lotus to bloom consistently and sturdily. Defying the challenges posed by...

Opinion

What counts is giving, not just making money

Ratan Tata showed through his deeds that accumulating wealth was not what an individual would be remembered for. On 10 October, India was awakened to the news that the Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata, was no more. He had passed away in the Breach Candy hospital in...

Enemy within the Congress

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Gandhis must realize that the reasons for the repeated failures to convert electoral contests into victories were not so much due to a strong rival, but essentially because the enemy was within and not outside. The fact-finding committees...

Development, welfare helped BJP in Haryana

CM Nayab Singh Saini’s administration has prioritised infrastructure improvements, industrial growth, and job creation. The Bharatiya Janata Party has solidified its political dominance in Haryana through a well-crafted strategy focusing on...

Cultural diplomacy in the Age of Festivals: India’s soft power stands out at global summits.

Political scientist Joseph S. Nye once said, «Cultural festivals are the new roundtables of international diplomacy where the currency is not power but participation; not politics but shared experiences.» Think...

Cementing relations with Southeast Asian nations

Myanmar and Thailand, historically linked with India, hold strategic importance as gateways to India’s connectivity with Southeast Asia. India’s relations with Myanmar and its four neighbouring countries—Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam—have been marked by cordiality, with few significant points of...

Freebies will derail the India story

The inevitable outcome is fiscal disaster and irreparable damage to long term development, growth and welfare plans. Sometimes, people find...

Navratri represents the Bharatiya view of feminism

The status and divinity of the Gods in Hindu religious traditions and scriptures stand unique for the special status...

Development is supreme, not caste

Once again, exit polls have failed to be an accurate predictor of the results of an election. They forecast a drubbing for the BJP in Haryana instead of the coming back of the party...

Electoral money power is hurting media’s credibility

New Delhi: The problem is that the media personnel who disagreed with the surveys or reports on Haryana or any previous election were abused as being biased and in favour of the government. This is not the first time that...

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9 Years of Transformation: A Supplement

NEP-2020 is just what India’s education system needs

In the third decade of the 21st century, humanity faces unprecedented pace of change in practically every sector of human activity and endeavour. There are great advances in ICT and AI, there are also daunting and threatening concerns that threaten the very existence of life on the planet earth. ...

Indigenisation of Indian defence industry is the way to thrive

  istory bears testimony to the fact that all nations with strong military industrial set up had developed a strong military force, resulting in a strong and vibrant foreign policy. It was the military industrial set of Germany which enabled it to launch its offensive practically...

A silent revolution in the water sector

As we mark the ninth anniversary of the Narendra Modi government, one of the biggest achievements which has not hogged the limelight has been its work in the water sector...

9 Years of the Modi Economy: Stellar on most counts

MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE India’s economy (as measured by real GDP) has been the fastest-growing among the world’s 20 largest economies for 7 of the past 9 years. And those were the only...

India’s FDI rush: Past tense, present perfect

India’s much envied tag of a “hot destination” in the context of its appeal as a country to do business with and invest in, has preferably less to do now with the lure of quick money parked in India...

Prospects for agriculture bright with higher govt spending, farm exports

Indian agriculture may have been weathering a series of storms over the past one year, including a heatwave in...

UNDER MODI GOVT, India beats the world in medical infrastructure

With the term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi entering its 9th year, the effect of his government’s healthcare policies...

Modi government’s foreign policy has been transformative

As a result of the Narendra Modi government’s transformative foreign policy India today is no longer a supplicant in...

Accomplishing the ‘impossible’, the Modi way

Among contemporary politicians, few have the longevity in office that Narendra Modi does. Before nine years as Prime Minister,...

2019: The year that India regained its morality

Historical atrocities coupled with the passage of time allow moral inequities to creep into the fabric of society where...

Modi’s Kartavya Path eclipses Lutyens’ Delhi

On 28 May, the ninth anniversary of Narendra Modi’s regime Delhi is slated to begin on an auspicious note—the...

Nine years of committed development, innovation

The Narendra Modi government has proved that nothing is impossible if the intention is pure and determination is firm,...

The Fourth Battle of Panipat beckons Prime Minister Modi

Haryana is the site of some of the most consequential battles in the long history of India, including that...

Features

India a global leader, partner in creative economy: Uzbekistan’s...

TASHKENT: Gayane Umarova is the face of a new Uzbekistan, harnessing creative and culture industries to carve its place...

Preserving film heritage means balancing the old with the...

Dr. Rainer Rother, the Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen in Berlin, has...

Kasatandi: The Symbol of Autumn and the Festivities of...

With the arrival of the Kasatandi flowers, a palpable sense of excitement and anticipation fills the air across India....

RENÉE Cosmetics stands out among homegrown indie beauty brands

The importance of high-quality and well-priced beauty products cannot be stressed enough. At first, these qualities could only be...

‘The Book of Emperors’ makes the history of the...

History remembers the Mughals as a powerful clan that brought much of the Indian territory under its wing, thereby...