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  Opinion | Let negotiations begin to end the prolonged sit-in at Shaheen Bagh

  January 31, 2020 10:46 IST

  The women protesters openly spoke about their concerns, their fears about CAA and NRC, and were indeed hurt over the insinuations that were being made in social media that some of them had been hired to sit on a daily payment basis. 

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  Opinion | AAP cannot say that Shaheen Bagh is not a major election issue

  January 30, 2020 9:53 IST

  Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal wants the voters of Delhi to decide on water, electricity, education and hospital issues and avoid issues like CAA and Shaheen Bagh. Amit Shah's reply is simple: Is Shaheen Bagh not in Delhi? 

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  Opinion | Arresting Sharjeel not enough, unmask those who planned anti-national conspiracy

  January 29, 2020 9:55 IST

  Sharjeel Imam is facing sedition charges in five states (UP, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Delhi) for giving an inflammatory speech in Aligarh Muslim University, where he was seen giving a call for Northeast to be cut off from India.

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  Opinion | World's largest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad is ready for inauguration

  January 28, 2020 9:42 IST

  The stadium at Motera has 75 corporate boxes, compared to only 20 to 25 corporate boxes found in other stadiums of India. There will also be a presidential suite. 

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  Opinion | How the Ganga ghats of Patna have been miraculously transformed

  January 23, 2020 14:25 IST

  Now, elderly people come for a morning walk and students come here to sit and study under street lights. In the evenings, families come to these ghats for a pleasant stroll.

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  Opinion | How Centre is bringing about positive changes in Kashmir

  January 22, 2020 11:07 IST

  Before Article 370 was revoked, the annual fee charged from every student in a government school was Rs 250, inclusive of books and uniform. Now that J&K is a union territory, the students will not have to pay a single paisa. 

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  Nadda will have to face critical challenges as the new BJP chief

  January 21, 2020 12:25 IST

  The challenge before Nadda is a huge one. Under his leadership, the party has to win the Delhi and Bihar assembly elections this year. Steering India's biggest political party at such a critical juncture is surely a challenging task. Nadda is a leader who prefers to keep a low profile but he knows the nitty gritty of his party organisation very well.

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  Opinion | Take stringent action against those who brainwash children to spout venom against Govt

  January 18, 2020 12:25 IST

  I consider exploitation of children in order to incite communal feelings towards political ends must be treated as a big crime. Adults and elderly persons have the right to sit on peaceful protests and air their views against the policies of the government. But exploiting children to incite communal feelings is not only injustice, but also an act of cruelty towards them. 

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  Why India has decided to invite Imran Khan to SCO summit

  January 17, 2020 11:12 IST

  This invitation should neither be linked to the current bilateral relations between India and Pakistan nor should this be considered as India's invitation to Imran Khan to come on an official visit to India.

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  Opinion | Rescue visuals that should make every Indian proud of our army

  January 16, 2020 10:36 IST

  In Lachhipora village of Baramulla, on Wednesday, two men, Tariq Iqbal and Zahoor Ahmed Khan, while going towards Bijhama were trapped in a landslide. The guard commander at an army base camp, nearly 200 metres away, swung into action. 

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  Opinion | Congress must avoid giving communal colour to terror cases

  January 15, 2020 10:50 IST

  The arrested DSP has reportedly confessed that he was helping terrorists as he wanted money for his daughter's marriage. Looking at his under construction house in Kashmir, one can easily conclude that he was no ordinary policeman. 

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  Opinion | Thousands travel in overcrowded trains in Bihar to appear for exam

  January 14, 2020 11:39 IST

  India TV in its programme 'Aaj Ki Baat' showed videos of students clinging on to the engines and doors of overcrowded coaches. Hundreds of them were sitting on rooftops. Railway officials who arrived at the scene with police force tried to unload the aspirants who were clinging to the engine of the train. 

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  Opinion | JNU violence by masked goons was a result of political group rivalry

  January 11, 2020 11:13 IST

  A special investigation team of Delhi Police on Friday disclosed the names of nine student activists, who they alleged had indulged in violence in the JNU campus. These included the JNU students union president Aishe Ghosh. Of them, seven are from Left groups and the remaining two are from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. 

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  Opinion | Why Mehbooba expelled 8 party leaders as 15 foreign envoys visited Srinagar

  January 14, 2020 11:57 IST

  The people of the valley have given their reply to Mehbooba Mufti. Five months have elapsed since the revocation of Article 370, cellphone and SMS services have been resumed, leaders are being released from detention in phases.

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  Opinion | Why Trump wants escalation of tension with Iran

  January 09, 2020 9:52 IST

  While Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei described the missile attacks as "a slap" on the US, American President Donald Trump in a televised speech on Wednesday night claimed that "Iran appears to be standing down".

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  Opinion | Justice for Nirbhaya alone will not do, the entire system needs to be changed

  January 08, 2020 11:40 IST

  It would be wrong to blame the court alone. The fault lies in the entire criminal jurisprudence system. Posts of judges are lying vacant right from lower to higher courts, there is a lack of infrastructure for courts, and for a country of 1.3 billion people, we have only seven forensic labs. 

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  Opinion | Rampage by goons in JNU has brought a bad name to India

  January 07, 2020 11:13 IST

  I have no hesitation in saying that Congress and Left parties are behind most of the protests that took place in India. These two political parties have quite a large base in these universities. 

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  Opinion | How Congress-led UPA govt had planned a major NPR exercise in 2010

  December 27, 2019 11:38 IST

  It is not that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not try to remove misgivings and fears in the minds of minorities. Time and again, he has spoken clearly about Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. 

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  Opinion | Why PM Modi said, protecting public properties is the duty of all citizens

  December 26, 2019 10:07 IST

  It is now almost common to see protesters damaging railway tracks and setting fire to buses and police vehicles during violent protests. Nobody stops rioters from doing this because people, in general, do not consider public property as national property.

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  Opinion | Why Amit Shah said, NPR has nothing to do with NRC

  December 25, 2019 13:03 IST

  Amit Shah clarified that the NPR process was a Constitutional requirement and it was not part of BJP's political agenda.  Throughout his interview, the Home Minister refrained from making remarks against opposition parties. 

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  Opinion | Why BJP lost Jharkhand assembly elections?

  December 24, 2019 16:56 IST

  Nearly six months ago, the BJP had swept the Lok Sabha polls in Jharkhand, winning 12 of the state's 14 LS seats with a 51 per cent vote share. The party had won 57 of the total 81 assembly segments six months ago.

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  Opinion | Take stern action against political leaders who are inciting violence

  December 21, 2019 10:20 IST

  The death of people in police firing in UP is saddening, but there is need for immediate action against political leaders who are fanning and inciting protests.

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  Opinion | Mamata's demand for UN-monitored referendum on CAA is preposterous

  December 20, 2019 11:09 IST

  People are asking whether only Muslims will be asked to submit documents to prove their citizenship and other communities will be exempted. The answer is: the NRC draft is not yet ready.

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  Opinion | A look at how rapists take undue advantage of loopholes in legal system

  December 19, 2019 15:10 IST

  You will be surprised to know that in Delhi alone, after the Nirbhaya incident, there were 14,384 rape cases in Delhi alone till date, and no death sentence was given in a single case. Courts gave verdicts in only about 800 cases.

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  Opinion | How rumours on social media are striking fear in the minds of Muslims

  December 18, 2019 9:40 IST

  The stone pelters whom India TV reporter spoke to on Tuesday openly said that they may be asked to provide documents to prove their citizenship even though their forefathers had been staying here for more than 70 years. 

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  Indian Muslims must cast aside their sense of fear over CAA | Opinion

  December 17, 2019 11:53 IST

  There were protests by students against the amended Citizenship Act on Monday in Aligarh Muslim University, Jadavpur University, Mau in UP, Lucknow's Darul Uloom Nadwatul seminary and in Kochi in Kerala, even as uneasy calm prevailed in Assam. 

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  Opinion | Rahul should have apologized for his 'Rape in India' remark

  December 14, 2019 10:44 IST

  In my view, Rahul Gandhi, as an opposition party leader, has every right to criticize Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies, he has the right to question the government and to level allegations, but atrocities against women is a sensitive issue. Before making such a remark, he should have taken care of his language, his thoughts and his style of speech.

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  Opinion | People of Assam must listen to Prime Minister's assurance on CAB

  December 13, 2019 10:07 IST

  Apart from the PM's appeal for calm, people of North East must be told that the CAB will have practically no effect on northeastern states because of Inner Line Permit system which bars outsiders from taking permanent residence in most of those states.