Analysis

Jaishankar’s statement came after US President Donald Trump repeated, for the second time, his offer to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir.

To do so, the government and RBI must stick to the FRBM Act and inflation-targeting frameworks

The policies for a nearly $3 trillion economy cannot be based on good versus evil storytelling

Pay more attention to ensure that the initial statements made by persons can be later used as evidence in court

Post-2008 cadre allocation policies systematically assign lower quality civil servants to disadvantaged states

India is paying a price for Rajiv Gandhi’s blunder in 1986. Warnings weren’t heeded. Conservatives got stronger

Criminalisation is a key deterrent against triple talaq. Social reform must follow the legal change

The State must address issues of credit, taxation, regulation, law and skills for small and medium firms

Pakistan has an advantage; the US is managing a strategic defeat. India must be more proactive

India, China and Bangladesh should manage the shared resource in the region and depoliticise water security.

If the bona fides of constitutional authorities are suspect, should the Supreme Court step in?

A favourable policy environment to vaccinate children and older age groups will help the country fight the disease.

Both sides must now look past Trump’s unfortunate statement and focus on addressing contentious issues.

Over the decades, Nasa released all images from its Apollo missions to the public for free, democratising the medium even further, as the images lay bare open to scrutiny and research

The system is unreliable. Deploying it may institutionalise the discrimination of a diverse demographic of people

It wants dialogue. But genuine peace between the two countries won’t be possible without resolving Kashmir

Atal Behari Vajpayee, Jaswant Singh, Brajesh Mishra and K Raghunath played an exemplary role during the crisis

By moving to the Left, and shunning nationalism, liberals fail to account for concerns on immigration

First, the government must increase public investment in social services. Second, it should introduce a multi-pronged industrial policy to reverse the poor manufacturing performance since 1991

The movie’s plot demolishes the notion of meritocracy. Monarchies, politics and business will find it familiar

For the first time, US publicly sided with India against Pakistani aggression

Only the Congress can fill the political vacuum in Uttar Pradesh

The retrograde amendment would amount to creating an RTI ministry under the government

If I were to give reasons for our success in pushing back the Pakistan army and restoring the status of the LoC, it would be the courage, spirit and bravery of our young officers and men who fought against all odds to uphold the highest traditions of the their regiments and the Army

Violence is wrong, but the system is more geared to protect medical practitioners than patients. Overhaul it

If Indian cities have become successful in turning away migrants, we should see that as the first sign of their demise, not their dynamism.

PM Vajpayee’s mature handling of the crisis was contrasted with Pakistan’s adventurism. It helped shorten the war

Political families in a democracy do not have the advantage that those in business have. Here is why