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A year later or 50 days later or, shall we say, 500 years hence and we’re still squabbling; meaning, we haven’t changed at all in all these centuries. Why, there’s the Ramayana and there’s the Mahabharata to attest to the surety that man, especially the Bharatiye Manoos, is an indisputable candidate for carrying forward disputes, many of them without a leg to stand on.

A historic development that has empowered the Indian consumer like never before has gone largely unnoticed amidst the country’s preoccupation with the Covid pandemic and its dire consequences for the economy and the lives of the people.

There is a famous adage in Hindi “wife of the weakest poor is the Bhabhi (sister-in-law) of entire village). The axiom implies that the poor does not have respect and prestige. It may sound obnoxious, but the situation of the former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is more or less same in the Congress.

The economic shutdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing job losses have rekindled enthusiasm for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI), a concept that manages to divide opinion not only between left and right, but within left and right circles too. Some of the reasons given for opposing UBI can actually be deployed in its favour, such is the range of positions adopted by its supporters and detractors.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals skipper Shreyas Iyer, on Tuesday hailed the decision to hold the IPL 2020 in the UAE saying in the present challenging conditions this is the best possible way out.

New Delhi: Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday urged the states to organise State-level Khelo India Games annually to identify and nurture a larger number of grassroot-level talents.

As has become trademark of the Narendra Modi government during the COVID-19 pandemic, once again Parliament has been side-stepped in a matter of national importance as the Union Cabinet approved the National Education Policy. As a matter of great national importance that will affect India’s future, the government must immediately withhold the implementation of the policy till it is debated in Parliament. It is unfortunate that the government did not think it worthy to discuss and debate the NEP in Parliament before it was adopted.

For the first time since Sonia Gandhi took over as the Congress President after the resignation of Rahul Gandhi last August, the rift between the old guard loyal to Sonia and the Team Rahul has come out wide in the open. The reason for the frustration is simple. Both the old guard and the younger leaders are frustrated with the status quo stand of the party when it needs a new push to revive. Moreover, when Sonia handed over the baton to her son Rahul in 2017, she did not take care to reconcile both the camps with the result both are getting impatient.

LUCKNOW: The bhumi pujan for Ram Temple at Ayodhya on August 5 will undoubtedly boost the image of saffron clad Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath not only in India but abroad also.

Legislatures in India, both, the Parliament and the state legislatures, pass hundreds of bills each year. Each of these bills includes what is known as the “Financial Memorandum”. It’s a brief section which details out what the financial costs or implications would be on the exchequer when the bill becomes an act and comes into force. The idea behind this is to provide reliable estimates of the costs which would be incurred with the passage of the legislation concerned. It also makes the ministry in charge of the particular bill to do a certain cost-benefit analysis of the law it has proposed to be introduced and passed by the legislature.