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A countrywide ban on manufacture, import, production and sale of single use plastic items has been announced by the Central Government from 1st July. While this is a long awaited welcome step in the right direction, the implementation has to be strategic for the ban...

The death of a girl student by suicide due to ragging by seniors should not have come as a surprise to anybody familiar with the environment existing in higher educational institutes in the state. It is noteworthy that Orissa stands third at the national level...

The jailing of Mohammed Zubair is the latest in a line of miscarriages of justice India’s government is inflicting on its citizens. I say India’s government because though law and order is a state subject, it is the Union government’s agencies under Amit Shah that...

In one of his first significant decisions since taking over, the new Lt Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena has ordered the suspension of PC Thakur, deputy secretary in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office, and two SDMs - Harshit Jain and Devender Sharma - over...

For more than three decades, the global economy was defined by unbridled integration and unprecedented interdependence. Neither political spats nor localised wars could slow the globalisation train. Markets were markets, business was business, and multinational firms became more multinational. Not anymore. In this new era...

It does seem like no one in this country knows anything except those in absolute but temporary power. The bureaucracy has been the torch bearer of this mindset since colonial days. They were the very first to understand that the average brown skinned native was...

The US Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark court ruling Roe vs Wade nearly half a century ago giving the country’s women constitutional protection for abortion indicates dark times. It undermines women’s rights over their own bodies and personal family choices. The US SC verdict...

One of our Supreme Court judges made an important if startling point when giving a lecture abroad. A legal website reporting his speech gave this headline to the story: “Will result in slippery slope if courts are regarded as only organ to defend citizens’ rights”....

The Uttarakhand government has been struggling to work with only 76 IAS officers in the state, even though it has an allocated cadre strength of 120 IAS officers. Of these, seven are on Central deputation. They include Ashish Joshi, Sridhar Babu Addanki, Jyoti Yadav, Raghav...

Austria and New Zealand may be far apart geographically, but we are connected by shared values and principles. Particularly relevant today is our longstanding opposition to nuclear weapons and our shared concern about the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament. While the threat of nuclear...