HindustanTimes Rural distress seemed to be the proverbial Achilles’ heel for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Results of the 2017 assembly elections in Gujarat and the 2018 elections in the heartland states of Rajasthan, Ma... More »
HindustanTimes Nepal has a small but a vibrant Sikh community that is best known for its role as transporters, who opened Nepal to the modern world. Not many, though, know that Nepal’s Sikh heritage dates to Guru Nanak Dev, who travelled through Nepal during h... More »
India has more single women than ever before, according to Census 2011. Yet, in our patriarchal society, their single status, unlike that of men, continues to evoke curiosity and questions in the best of situations, and stigma and derision at the worst. Single... More »
HindustanTimes The forests of India have been customarily managed and shaped over centuries by the ecological practices of forest dwellers. The forests and wildlife that we value so greatly owe their existence to the practices of forest people, and yet modern ... More »
HindustanTimes In the much talked about Kulbhushan Jadhav case, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in favour of India against Pakistan. Any India-Pakistan matter is always accompanied by unnecessary jingoism and bravado. Thus, it is imperative to s... More »
HindustanTimes Last month, as nearly two million people thronged the streets of Hong Kong in a leaderless protest movement against a controversial extradition bill, it felt like something in the digital world had turned. For so many years, from the Arab Spring... More »
BusinessLine The Modi government had rolled out an innovative loan scheme for farmers engaged in animal husbandry and fisheries in February 2019. The scheme was to provide short-term loans for activities such as dairy farming, poultry, sheep and goat rearing a... More »
HindustanTimes The recently released draft National education Policy 2019 has equity as one of its founding goals, and gender as a cross-cutting theme. Yet, a closer look at its recommendations, proposed equity-inducing initiatives, and use of vocabulary rende... More »
HP Inc is betting on device-as-aservice and 3D printing to grow faster, even as it pushes for innovation in its core PC and printer businesses. CEO Dion Weisler told ET’s Raghu Krishnan and Ayan Pramanik that one-third of the PCs it sells worldwide are sold he... More »
HindustanTimes Kulbhushan Jadhav was granted a partial reprieve when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) agreed with India’s contention that his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations were violated by Pakistan’s decision to put him on tr... More »
Power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said the government will usher in a wave of reforms with policy and regulatory interventions to create a viable power sector for investors and consumers. In an interview with Himangshu Watts and Sarita Singh, he sa... More »
HindustanTimes If residents of the northern plains of India are grappling with a deficit monsoon, the people of Bihar, Assam, and other northeastern states are facing a problem of plenty. Pounding rains have worsened flooding in these states, killing and displ... More »