Opinion - Page 236

Good quality infrastructure is a key ingredient for sustainable development. An efficient transport system, well-placed road connectivity, sanitation, energy and communications systems are necessary to prosper, and it provides a decent standard…

The budget for 2018, at its core, re-enacts a familiar tension of Indian policymaking. On the one hand, it reassuringly tries to respond to genuine democratic pressure and economic need. Addressing rural…

Kashmir society is a close knit community which enthrals, the outside world by its hospitality. A hospitality, which is not only being observed by outsiders but also well recognized among its dwellers.…

For dealing with traffic complications the authorities do not have a magic wand in their hands. But there is always a possibility of improvement. The suave and proficient implementation for mobility of…

At the end of the Anglo-Mysore wars, Tipu Sultan was killed in battle in 1799, and the palace at Seringapattanam was sacked. A little pamphlet found on his body, buried under his…

The thrust of finance minister Arun Jaitley’s fifth Budget was on agriculture and the rural economy. It is tempting to see this as a populist gesture for a government that will go…

There were considerable expectations from the Budget. Given that this is the last full-year Budget by this government and the first one after the revenue uncertainties arising from implementation of the goods…

“Truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man will keep speaking the truth and striving to speak the truth until he will be recorded with Allah as a siddeeq…

It is said that Prophet SAW was sitting in his home, his lower legs uncovered. Abu came in and then Umar and the Prophet remained in his position. Then when Uthman arrived…

The holy Quran is the religious basis of Islam. It contains ordainments and commandments for Muslims and a code of conduct for them. It teaches Muslims what is good and what is…