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The fact that this is its last effective Union Budget may have weighed on the government’s mind when it appointed Financial Services Secretary Sanjay Malhotra, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre as the new revenue secretary after incumbent Tarun Bajaj retires at the...

The Republican Party looks poised to win back control of one or both houses of Congress in the United States’ upcoming midterm elections. Yet the party stands for nothing except fear of a “radical left” bent on installing socialism. The strands of paleo- and neoconservatism...

Since early 2020, the number of people affected by hunger has risen by 150 million – a trend that has been exacerbated by the three Cs: conflict, climate change, and COVID-19. And when it comes to global threats, rising food insecurity is just the tip...

The elevation of the former hedge manager and ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak to the top job of UK Prime Minister is certainly a cause for celebration in India which was once the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. For some, history comes full circle...

A rare drama was enacted October 22 just before the final votes of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th Party Congress which has left the world baffled. It has led to wide speculation on the seeming power struggle within the CCP. The motive of China’s...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has evolved over the years in an unusual manner, going from being conservative on social issues to radical. In its formative decades, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh even when under Atal Bihari Vajpayee showed itself to be hesitant to take up issues...

The annual conference of principal secretaries of states and union territories held recently had one theme that overrode other discussions on administration and administrative reforms-related work. Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh asked the states to spare more IAS, IPS and IFoS officers...

Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education. The trigger for the protests – occurring simultaneously with protests in Iran – was last month’s terrorist attack on an education...

The USA and China are now locked in shadow boxing to impress their respective domestic audience and also allies. This is the inescapable conclusion one can draw from the US President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy (NSS) and China’s President Xi Jinping’s inaugural...

On the first day of the 20th party congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) October 16, its general secretary and China’s President Xi Jinping set the tone of the aggressive policies and programmes he intends to follow for the next five years. His inaugural...