Even after 70 years of Independence, India has not stabilised in the sphere of higher education. It continues to grapple with problems of unemployment

Senior Advocate, B.V. Acharya, who as Special Public Prosecutor relentlessly led the prosecution for over a decade in the well-known disproport

Always volatile, the situation in the Kashmir Valley has taken a turn for the worse in the year since Burhan Wani, the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, wa

The Karnataka unit of the Congress party is upbeat that it will be successful in the elections to the State Legislative Assembly due in another few mo

A former head of the Karnataka Police, S.T. Ramesh joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1976 and served the State and the Indian Governmen

In this interview with S. Rajendran, Karnataka Representative of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, the State's Minister for Ener

Alexander Thomas, founder-member and president of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), founder-member and president of the

Kidney diseases are on the increase across all regions of the country and the primary reason is stated to be lifestyle changes leading to diabetes and

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement demonetising high denomination notes on November 8, 2016, will do little to address the prime objective of

The Karnataka government's refusal to release water to Tamil Nadu despite a Supreme Court ruling has added a new and crucial angle to the Cauvery wate

Brij Kishore Singh of the 1976 batch of the Indian Forest Service served the State of Karnataka for nearly 38 years in different wings of the Forest D

Some months ago, I reliably learnt that the Narendra Modi Government had approached Bezwada Wilson for a Padma award but that he had shown no intere

On June 11, 2016, former Union Minister, Jairam Ramesh was elected to the Rajya Sabha, India’s upper house, for a third term representing the Indian N

Karnataka is in the grip of severe drought despite heavy rains in most regions of south-interior Karnataka in early May 2016. The State’s Chief Minist

The Indian Railways, the world’s fourth largest railway network covering virtually all parts of the country and providing the vast population with one

Kashmir remains India’s unsolved puzzle even after six decades. Its history has thrown up strange paradoxes and challenges for policy makers in New De

It is over two decades since the historic Babri Masjid was demolished to construct of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. While the leaders and workers of the BJ

Any attempt to eradicate to child labour must recognise the complexity of the issue and must address the range of direct and indirect factors that con

A veteran of many political battles, M.V. Mysoora Reddy, currently with the YSR Congress Party, believes that in this election, Andhra Pradesh will vo

As 25 Parliamentary and 175 Assembly constituencies in Seemandhara go to the polls on May 7, a former Rajya Sabha MP and political analyst, Y. Sivaji,

All of 37, Kalvakuntla Taraka Ramarao, or KTR as he is known among party cadres, is already the face of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He left a well-

Economist Parthasarathi Shome is Chairman, International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation (ITRAF), Bangalore, and Visiting Fellow at London

Karnataka's Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, H.K. Patil speaks to The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy's Karnataka

Congress party chief in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, makes out a litany of charges against the incumbent Vasundhara Raje Government, accusing it, a

Suave and articulate Youth Wing leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, in an exhaustive interview with The Hindu Centre’s M

Senior Congress leader Karan Singh says an exclusivist cultural construct is alien to India and not valid even within Hinduism, in an exclusive chat w

The ninety-one year old Dr. H.V. Hande, former Health Minister, Tamil Nadu, is a political leader who has seen the late former Chief Minister,

The Balakot bombings that followed the terror strike in Pulwama have given an edge to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)’s election plank of muscular

Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister for Finance and Union Minister for External Affairs was a prominent member of Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Bhar

When Sonia Gandhi was Congress President, her political secretary, Ahmed Patel, was often referred to as the "second-most important person in the part