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I t is prudent for officials in high positions to speak with care and caution, for their words carry the weight of their position and responsibilities and can make or break any situation. Any loose talk on their part can have far-reaching consequences. This is...

When US President Donald Trump’s administration in a new fiat, made the coveted H-1B visa available to foreigners at a prohibitive cost, it virtually spelt doom for high-tech professionals and scientists from India, as well as a few other countries, who desired it most for...

Drug adulteration is a major scourge in India where an unholy nexus of the all-powerful pharma industry and unscrupulous doctors, who are incentivised to prescribe medicines of specific brands, has been playing havoc with the lives of common people in the absence of little to...

At the end of every year, the organisation I represent puts out a report on human rights in India. This is part of Amnesty International’s global assessment, which focuses on violations mostly, though not exclusively, by states around the world. I was going through the...

When the screen at Prime Minister Modi’s rally in Banswara went dark for ten minutes, the fallout was swift: Rajasthan’s Infotech Secretary Archana Singh lost her job. Ten minutes of blank screen, ten seconds of bureaucratic chopping. It’s hard not to smile wryly at the...

At a time when many people across the globe holding high offices or having money power and political clout are continuing to evade the laws despite their wrongdoings - economic or political-, it does great credit to the French legal system that it could send...

During the past fortnight, European states have reported a spurt in incursions into their airspace, the latest such instance being drones appearing above Danish airports 25 September. This came close on the heels of drones over Poland, Romania, Estonia and a German naval frigate in...

Bordered by China to the east and Pakistan to the west, Ladakh holds immense strategic value for India. Yet, more than five years after its separation from Jammu & Kashmir in 2019, Ladakh’s political future remains unclear. The promise of better governance and stronger representation...

“God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform,” so goes a hymn I read in school. Or perhaps it was a line in P.G. Wodehouse, I forget which. But no matter, the point is that miracles usually happen outside of the knowledge of us...

Rajesh Agrawal, who will soon become Commerce Secretary, is in charge of India’s trade talks with the United States, which have resumed. Agrawal, an IAS officer from the 1994 batch, is accustomed to difficult negotiations. With a career that straddles trade promotion, exports, and policy...