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On 19 July, China began constructing a $167.8 billion dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. Billed as the largest infrastructure project in the world, this massive hydroelectric project is expected to not only jeopardize the region’s...

The BJP is seen today as a corporate-friendly political party, and this is the view held by both the party’s votaries and its opponents. Supporters say this is necessary to industrialise India and that the government has no business to be in business. Opponents of...

There was a time when “superannuation” meant something. Now it’s just the date you pencil in until the next extension arrives. Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan is the latest to join the Great Indian Extension Club. He was due to retire in September 2025. Not...

Freedom of speech and expression is the soul of democracy and to rob an individual of that fundamental right is to undermine the basic tenets of democracy. But, does that give a carte blanche to a citizen to articulate in public what she or he...

US President Donald Trump is opening new theatres of his global tariff war. This appears to be a strategy he is determined to adopt even as his trade war is forcing some of the US-friendly countries to join hands with those with which they do...

Many of the acts of omission and commission by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the recent past have been under question for their perceived bias in favour of the ruling dispensation and against the Opposition. Its latest ongoing exercise of conducting Special Intensive...

One of the most remarkable democratic developments of recent times came from New York City this month. A 33-year-old man of Indian origin won the Democratic Party nomination to run for mayor of the city. The nomination is a sort of semi-final match, but because...

It’s hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura’s cadre as a crypto-threshold moment. Between 2019 and 2023, young administrative talent from IAS batches of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and even 2023 have been migrating, often in tandem with...

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the RSS headquarters are located, he expressed concern over the “rising” number of poor. He said wealth was “getting concentrated” in the hands of some affluent...

The coming together of the Thackeray cousins – Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray – on 5 July, two decades after they had fallen out, could not have happened at a more opportune time. The...