Opinions

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Opinion: Telangana CM private visit nightmare for residents

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is never short of occasions to announce grandiose welfare schemes for the state and its people. He makes the best of whatever the event to…
Opinion: Time for ECI to end its hide-and seek game on J&K polls

Now when the Election Commission of India will be visiting Jammu and Kashmir for a second time this year to assess the preparations for the legislative Assembly polls in the Union Territory…

Mehbooba Mufti’s new gambit reinvocation of Pervez Musharraf’s 4-point formula

PDP president and firebrand former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti , known for her out of box political thinking and ideas, has yet again thrown ball in the court of Centre , asking…
Budget exposes political bankruptcy of the BJP

Whatever the economic Implications of the 2024-25 Union Budget, there is no denying that it exposed the poverty of political thought of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. By announcing with so much…
Book review: Love in the Time of Hate – In the Mirror of Urdu

Sing Heavenly Muse, is the sublime opening of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Rakhshanda Jalil has an equally evocative, epic scale and tenor in the opening to what may well turn out to be…
Telangana government should wake up to public grievances; case in point is sub-registrar offices

Hyderabad: How much time should it take to register a rental agreement with the sub-registrar? Thirty minutes; one hour; two hours or even more? As I understand, looking at the Karnataka model,…
Kashmir parties at crossroads, but shy of fighting together for statehood

Kashmir politics is losing direction and that too deliberately. Not long ago, Kashmir was all about politics and its place in the Indian union, and how it viewed its relationship with Pakistan.…

By-poll results: BJP on backfoot

The “Pappu” has not only become the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, but his India bloc has made the BJP lose many seats in the recently held by-polls. The fact that the…
Opinion: More soldiers die in J&K challenging ‘all is well narrative’

It’s time to come out of the “All is well” syndrome in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorism is showing lethality of a different kind in 2024 than the territory witnessed ever before.…
NATO: Not a trusted organisation

Thank God, the July 9-11 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) conference in Washington declared China and not India as “a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine,” and demanded that Beijing halt…
Opinion: Moral responsibility of UP CM Yogi for Hathras stampede

Should Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath take moral responsibility for the horrendous incident which took place in Hathras leading to the death of over 120 persons? The horrible tragic event of Hathras speaks…
Opinion: One month of terror attacks in J&K, Pakistan is in for a big trouble

In the past one month beginning with the June 9 attack on a pilgrims’ bus in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, there have been several such attacks, but mostly on the…
Opinion: China is posing more threats at LAC than visible in Ladakh

At a time when the Indian army is busy in celebrating 25th anniversary of its decisive victory in Kargil war of 1999, it is pertinent to note that closer to the same…
Opinion: Delay in restoration of statehood to J&K may create new fault lines

Restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir is becoming a complex issue with every passing day. As there is a lot of ambiguity about the timings of such a step as also…
Book review: ‘@75 As I Saw It,’ by Mahendra Ved

Mahendra Ved is a veteran journalist, who covered some of the most tumultuous events in India and in the Indian Sub-Continent. These include the India-Pakistan War of 1971, when Bangladesh was liberated.…