Uddhav Thackeray’s politics, cloaked more in his pride than in ideological rigidity, has now descended into unvarnished desperation. The...

When Donald Trump extends a hand of friendship, it is often to the world’s most unsavoury actors. His latest overture - a cosy lunch with...

The crash of Air India flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London has brought India’s flagship carrier and by extension, its storied parent,...

India has long prided itself on its secularism. This a hallowed concept, more often than not, has been invoked to protect minority rights...

Each monsoon, Maharashtra’s Western Ghats don their finest as mist curls over dark green ridges, waterfalls roar to life and families...

The Kedarnath helicopter crash, which left seven dead including a toddler and the pilot, exposes once more the parlous state of India’s...

The crash of Air India Flight 171 is the grimmest aviation disaster in India since the 2010 Mangalore runway catastrophe. The Boeing 787...

Municipal elections are supposed to be the closest link between citizen and state. They are the electoral forum where potholed roads,...

As Mumbai begins earnest preparations for its most iconic festival, Ganesh Chaturthi, politics is once again knocking at the deity’s...

Marriage, once regarded in India as a sacred covenant of duty, devotion and endurance, is fast descending into something far more...

Mumbai’s lifeline bled again. During Monday’s morning rush, as millions of hapless commuters jostled onto groaning steel carriages that...

Rahul Gandhi’s political compass has long oscillated between self-righteous indignation and strategic incoherence. This past week, he...

The sacking of Bengaluru’s Police Commissioner over the stampede near the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is both necessary and overdue. Eleven...

Bengaluru has lived through a preventable tragedy that should shame its political and police establishment. As over two lakh cricket fans...

The Maharashtra government’s decision to carve out a dedicated State Tribal Commission (STC), separate from the existing combined...

If Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis manages to pull off the 2027 Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Nashik without incident, he may well...

The ‘Majhi LadkiBahin Yojana’ which involved a monthly handout of Rs. 1,500 to women between the ages of 21 and 65, had been touted as a...

In Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal, freedom of expression is a conditional privilege, revoked when it fails to appease the political whims...

At a time when the nation is making a strenuous diplomatic effort to isolate Pakistan for its continued patronage of terrorism, the...

When rains flood Mumbai every year, a government is supposed to respond with action, not excuses. Instead, Maharashtra’s deputy chief...