Features

India Makes Its Stance Clear

Ninad D. Sheth

This is one high table India has only recently got onto. Reflecting the new economic world order, G20 meetings are seen as more important than G7 meetings.

India This Week

Open

Mamata’s conundrum: Delhi or Kolkata; The Straight and Narrow; Judicial Appointments: Echo from the Past; Amar Singh: Nuisance Value Bargainer

Israel Overreacts. Again

Seema Sirohi

A commando attack that killed ten of an activist group delivering aid to Gaza has shocked both friends and foes of the Jewish state.

Census Sets OBC Politics Astir

Haima Deshpande

In Maharashtra, old foes join hands across an ideological divide to make the most of a chance to consolidate Other Backward Caste votes.

Trinamool Sweeps Civic Polls

Jaideep Mazumdar

However, the margins in many seats were narrow. And, for the party to perform in the Assembly polls, it will have to deliver in the municipalities.

Just Can’t Keep Track

Jaideep Mazumdar

The Jnaneswari Express passenger train that was derailed by rogue Maoist-backed militiamen was rammed hard by an oncoming goods train, leaving over 150 dead.