Gold import curbs are a short-term response to a rising CAD with disquieting consequences for the economy.

Army’s decision to close the case raises disturbing questions about justice and transparency in J&K

The manufacturing bottleneck is created by restrictive labour laws, skills mismatch

In Ukraine, a deepening divide between the country’s political leadership and popular aspirations.

The Birbhum gangrape case illustrates the oppressions of ‘community justice’.

Monetary policy needs a single objective. The Urjit Patel committee report shows the way forward.

At the Australian Open, new face-offs, and old battles being fought anew.

The interim nuclear deal is being implemented. The ball is now in Iran’s court.

Somnath Bharti must step aside if AAP wants to redeem credibility from a sorry episode.

Tariff cut in Maharashtra threatens to undo the state’s recent progress on power reform.

The Supreme Court does well to impose new conditions on the use of the death penalty.

Thailand teeters on the edge as PM Yingluck Shinawatra struggles to hold on to power.

Inflation has declined but there is no room for complacence. Export sector needs a special push.

AAP embarks on a new, corrosive agitation. But how long will the Congress sustain it?

Come election season, each party addresses a different man on the street.

Obama curtails secret surveillance, but fails to make major changes to intelligence gathering apparatus.

Modi lays out some big ideas, frames the urbanisation opportunity. But his economic blueprint is incomplete.

Suchitra Sen’s persona was made up of what she showed on screen and what she withheld.

The new disabilities bill could help enshrine a more modern understanding of the issue.

More children are enrolling in school. But learning outcomes continue to decline. The ninth Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) by the non-profit Pratham, which focuses on the status of schooling and basic learning of children in rural India, makes sobering reading. In the third year of implementation of the landmark Right to Education Act, […]

By trying to bypass police procedures, inviting contempt for them, AAP betrays vigilante leanings.

Namdeo Dhasal’s poetry dared the reader to look reality in the eye. It also offered a redemptive vision.

Coal India’s announcement of a grand dividend cannot mask its several crises and the need for reform.

AAP cannot claim to be post-ideological as it welcomes members with clear ideological slants.

The editorial also backs the Delhi government’s move asking for an audit of the three private power distribution companies.