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The Supreme Court of India has generously allowed citizens the right to protest “in designated area”. It had said this in its judgement and criticism of the Shaheen Bagh sit-in against the citizenship amendment law and the National Register of Citizens. Its observation was that...

This one went down to the wire. Until the last moment, no one was sure whether UP’s Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi would get an extension or be allowed to superannuate. The radio silence on the issue from both the Yogi Adityanath camp...

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market economies, which enabled them to engage with the rest of the global economy. The world’s division into three segments – advanced capitalist economies, centrally planned socialist economies,...

Consider the following statements describing our moral judgments: If a child is hungry, or hurt, the child’s parents or friends have a greater obligation to help than a stranger does. If we have to choose between saving the life of a human or that of...

Liz Truss, the Right-wing Conservative Party leader, becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom replacing Boris Johnson who had to resign in the wake of what is known as the ‘Partygate’ scandal. She is the country’s third woman PM from the same party...

The inescapable conclusion one may reach after the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (UNHCHR) released its much awaited report on the plight of the Uyghur Moslem minority in China’s Xinjiang province is that it is better late than never. Interestingly, the High Commissioner Michelle...

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin has disgraced itself by not according a state funeral to the last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev whose low-key funeral took place September 3. Hundreds of people turned up at the ceremony with flowers in hand...

India has overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world’s fifth largest economy. This is the second time we overtook the UK, the first being a few years ago. But as our growth slowed, we fell behind again. The nations ahead of us are Germany,...

Is the hallowed ‘turf’ of the IAS shrinking? Evidently, yes. In the years since the Modi sarkar came to power, the IAS cadre at the joint secretary and additional secretary levels has noticeably shrunk. From 249 IAS officers in 2015 (from a total of 391...

Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old Lebanese-American charged with attempting to murder the British author Salman Rushdie, appears to have been acting on his own. Matar claims to be an admirer of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian supreme leader who issued the murderous fatwa against...