On Monday, the front-page of this newspaper reported that the Assam government has decided, in the first phase, to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) of 1951 for Assam’s eight districts comprising Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Golaghat, Nagaon, Lakhimpur, Sontipur and Jorhat. Our news story also reported that last year the State government had sent revised modalities relatin...

Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Monday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has not pursued inter-linking of rivers to cope with the problem of recurrent floods and droughts though the Supreme Court had also given directions on the issue. Addressing a function on the completion of the first phase of Ganga Samagra Abhiyan here, Advani said he had told Prime Minister Manmohan Sing...

It is crystal clear today that the global economy is facing tumultuous times for which no short cut solution is ready. Problems are not created overnight and as such solutions cannot be there in the shortest span. Some of the nations still think protectionist solutions as means of addressing the concerns - sharply rising prices for food and energy, ever decelerating economic growth and instabil...