On the rocks The timing of the announcement by Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, to seek a second referendum on independence f...

Fresh start in Punjab The   Congress’s victory in Punjab , bagging 77 of the 117 seats in the Assembly elections, comes as a salve for t...

End of a chapter The  removal of a sitting President in South Korea brings to a close one phase in the months-long popular mobilisation ...

Assembly election results: U.P. and away  In  the post-Mandal era,   Uttar Pradesh , the country’s most populous State that is made up o...

First among unequals (Part – II) If Uttarakhand, as in the case of Uttar Pradesh, stuck to the 2014 script,   Punjab voted very diffe...

First among unequals (Part – I) Five Assembly elections in five different States cannot possibly have one running national theme. But wh...

After Mosul Iraq must begin process to erase sectarian wounds Th e loss of Mosul is perhaps the biggest military setback for the Islam...

Partial cover More needs to be done on the mother and child front The  enhancement of paid maternity leave for women in the organis...

Open gates: EU countries must stand up for humane asylum policies The ruling of the European Union’s top court giving member-states the ...

Voting with our feet: robust turnouts defy anxieties about voter alienation Voter turnout estimates are often revised for a final tally ...

Staying cool India has launched the second phase of the programme to  eliminate the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) as part of ...

Dire straits There is no certainty about the circumstances that led to the   killing of a Tamil Nadu fisherman somewhere between the Ind...

Sparks in a tinderbox North Korea’s provocative action of  launching four missiles into the Sea of Japan a few hundred kilometres from t...

State of significance With the seventh and last phase of voting for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, a  potentially transformative election d...

The Tawang test China’s statement that it is   “gravely concerned”   over the government’s decision to allow the Dalai Lama to visit ...

GST Bill: Last mile concerns More than six months after the   Constitution was amended   to enable the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the...

Elusive reconciliation A United Nations report   released last week  on the progress of  reconciliation efforts  by the Sri Lankan gover...

Saving the Ghats The   hesitation shown by the Central government in deciding upon full legal protection for one of its most prized natu...

Moscow’s shadow Less than three weeks after the   resignation of Michael Flynn, U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser,...

Crossing a bridge Even in the fraught and volatile framework of India-Pakistan ties, the   Permanent Indus Commission   mandated to impl...