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Taking its cue from the Centre’s order on premature retirement, the Finance Department of the Delhi government has ordered all department heads to conduct periodical reviews of account cadre officers, especially those nearing retirement and who have been found to be performing below par. Sources...

For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business – and a disorderly one, at that. With their grand construction projects and spendthrift ways, they saddled Sri Lanka with unsustainable debts, driving the...

In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm. In the run-up to the event, a group of scientists wrote The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller. The authors argued that Earth’s finite...

Without Uber, would many taxi services have developed their own ride-hailing apps or started accepting credit cards when they did? In static industries with little competition, it takes new competitors and technologies to drive change. And, if managed well, this change need not even threaten...

The UN has released a report which states that India’s population will exceed that of China by 2023. According to the report, India’s population stands at 1.412 billion in 2022 compared to China’s 1.426 billion. India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most...

The developments in Sri Lanka should act as an eye opener for all democracies across the world. After the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and a chain of freedom struggles by natives against foreign rulers, human intellect devised democracy as the supreme method of governance....

The average Gross Domestic Product per person of the world is US dollars 12,200 per year. This is about Rs 9.6 lakh per year or Rs 80 thousand per person per month. Meaning that if we take the entire world’s GDP, all goods and services...

Haryana is facing a shortage of IAS officers in the state. The crisis is certainly severe enough for Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to raise the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the same time, Khattar is reportedly exploring the option of granting an...

The world is battling a deadly virus that refuses to go away. War and brutality have returned to Europe, thanks to an unhinged tyrant in the Kremlin. And climate-related disasters – floods, fires, extreme storms, and droughts – are occurring with greater frequency and intensity...

According to a Pew Research Center survey in March of this year, 61% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most cases. Even so, the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion established in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. No...