The Times of India

The disastrous spike in Covid cases has changed many mindsets. The Election Commission was slammed for a lengthy voting schedule in the recent state elections, helping spread the disease. The Kumbh Mela at Haridwar was castigated for promoting mass contact. […]

Anger and despair about Covid dominate news and conversation. How pathetically Indian public health has failed! Every party points fingers at others. Yet in some sense voters in a democracy must be part of the problem. Voters have had chances

Many liberals have cheered Mamata Banerjee’s election victory in West Bengal as the event of the year. Actually, it was utterly predictable. The BJP invariably gets fewer votes in state elections than general elections, because Narendra Modi is far more

A court in Uttar Pradesh has asked the Archaeological Survey of India to investigate the claim of a Hindu petitioner that the Gyanvapi mosque at Varanasi was created by destroying a Hindu temple. Another court has admitted a petition to

The recent flash flood in Uttarakhand was widely called a “glacier burst” although glaciers are not balloons and do not burst. It has spurred renewed warnings that global warming threatens quick melting of the Himalayan glaciers, decimating flows in the

Hundreds of analysts have written on almost every possible aspect of the current state elections in five states: West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry. Predicting elections in India is impossible. Opinion polls vary hugely from one another and

Ashoka University’s reputation as a world-class liberal arts university has been dented by Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta: His media columns highly critical of the BJP proved very inconvenient for those running Ashoka.  Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian also resigned

Many believe constant claims by Opposition parties and leftist journals that our economy is dominated by two-Modifriendly conglomerates. Rubbish. A research paper by Neelkanth Mishra of Credit Suisse reveals India has spawned 100 “unicorns”— unlisted new companies worth over a

Both Mumbai and Telangana may have been hacked by China, causing electric blackouts. The power minister denies a Chinese hand. But a US company, Recorded Future, claimed that Chinese hackers had targeted 10 entities of India’s power grid plus two

The government is reportedly very keen on a vehicle scrappage policy, making it mandatory for old vehicles to be scrapped or giving subsidies for voluntary scrappage. One aim is to increase the demand for new cars, boosting the auto industry