The Prime Minister should focus his energies now on reforming higher education.

The Railways are using their land to encourage PPPs. Why can't municipalities do the same for the schools they run?

what is more important than the re-invention of the Congress is the countervailing political storm that is gathering on the horizon as we approach the next parliamentary polls. On the face of it, the motley collection of regional parties joining

By its impulsive over-reaction, it has wittingly thrown away the tremendous leverage it had in the Lok Sabha with an unprecedented strength of 61 members. It is doubtful if it will ever be able to muster such a sizeable presence.

For businessmen, political corruption, even when transparently on display in the most public of people's forums, is a long-acknowledged worst practice.

Any further economic progress will invariably depend on reforms - not in our economic policies but in our political process.

From preliminary reports, one could make the following surmise: firstly, the terrorists did not want to cause mass casualties; secondly, Bengaluru has the largest concentration of foreign businessmen and experts, but they did not want to target them; thirdly, they

The cynic in me wonders whether the Speaker's defiance wasn't assisted by the knowledge that he cannot possibly be re-elected from Bolpur.'

The Sri Lankan government is justified in suspecting that this ceasefire may also be meant to enable the LTTE to re-group its cadres if the ceasefire offer is reciprocated by the government so that when the fighting is resumed after

So, we are supposed to feel concerned about what happened in the 'IT capital' on Friday afternoon; we are supposed to slam terrorism 'in no uncertain terms'; we are supposed to light a candle in our hearts and mourn.'

An authoritative and well-connected strategic affairs journal in China has come out with a prompt independent comment on the progress in the N-deal.