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The government’s move to ask playschools to adopt mother tongues as their medium of instruction in the place of English is fraught with unforeseen consequences, none of them beneficial.

New Delhi: The convening of the sixteenth meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) was just a cosmetic affair of the Government with a show to heal the wounds of the riot victims of Muzaffarnagar and its neighbourhood in Uttar Pradesh.

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is taking a worrisome turn. Both external and internal factors lend credence to the conclusion.

In his first monetary policy review on September 20, Reserve Bank of India Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan has performed a balancing act, easing a little on the “exceptional measures” of July, which had tightened liquidity to dampen volatile currency movements, while raising the key policy rate, repo, by 25 basis points to 7.5 per cent, to bring down inflation to more tolerable levels. This rate hike is for the first time in two years.

LUCKNOW: The recent Muzaffarnagar riots have damaged the credibility and ability of the young UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in particular and entire state administration in general.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The transfer of the solar scam cases to new judges, in the wake of reallocation by the Kerala High Court of subjects handled by various judges, has caused eyebrows to be raised all round.

KOLKATA: The Bangladesh Supreme Court has handed down death sentence to Abdul Qader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami but better known as the ‘Butcher of Mirpur’ for his killing of innocent men, women and children during the liberation war in Bangladesh. Mollah had, earlier this year, been sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Crimes Tribunal.

One wonders if anointment of Narendra Modi as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate will have any impact on coming election to five assemblies? Another question posed is whether there is a ‘Modi wave,’ which may help the BJP to sweep the poll in four Hindi speaking states? And, will this wave turn into a hurricane in the run up to May 2014 Lok Sabha election?

New Delhi: India is perturbed over the involvement of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in the killing of the Indian author Dr Sushmita Banerjee in Afghanistan.

New Delhi: India may say that its border with China is undefined and there are varying perceptions on both sides negotiations are on for settling. But the Chinese have termed the issue with all seriousness as a “security dilemma”