Covid-19: With great power comes great responsibility

Cities are setting the rules that now carry life and death implications for their residents, and most of these rules are sought to be set by the municipal authorities who have never wielded such......

Lockdown: Definitely not a 'success'

The lockdown should have been used to drum into Indians' head the reasons for social distancing and the necessity for it, and the costs of not applying it in our daily lives and it should have been......

Left students attacked in Visva Bharati university, 2 held

IMAGE: Members of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parshad (TMC students' wing) draw an anti-CAA/NRC/NPR graffiti on a road in Kolkata on Wednesday. Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Photo Armed......

West Bengal assembly passes resolution to rename the state as Bangla

The West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to rename the state as 'Bangla', but the process for final approval will be long drawn requiring an amendment to the Constitution. The move......

India's poor: From raw deal to new deal

If poverty reduction in India were judged by the performance of the many targeted poverty reduction programmes, the result would be deemed an abysmal failure. As the Prime Minister put it......

Dabhol power won't be cheap!

Two issues dominate the Dabhol discussion -- the power tariff and the power shortage in Maharashtra, particularly Mumbai. However, little light has shone on either. The debate on the tariff is all......

IIM: Case for need-based funding

The 'order' fixing the Indian Institutes of Management's fee at Rs 30,000, rather than an 'exorbitant' Rs 1,50,000, draws on three lines of argument to justify the decision. First, the maintenance......