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In 2015, India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index was 55. Last year, in 2020, it fell 39 places to land at 94. India went behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The index tracks undernourishment, child stunting (low height for age), child wasting (low weight for...

Jayati Ghosh There are many reasons to be critical of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the legitimacy crisis now confronting both institutions is not based on any of them. Instead, it has arisen for the wrong reasons, and this is serving...

If anyone has any doubt about the RSS being the nerve-centre of BJP governance, be it in the states or at the Centre, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks October 10 on conversion of Hindoos should dispel it. Those controversial harangues and different...

Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, tweeted that the return of Air India (AI) to the group would have gladdened the founder of the airline in pre-Independent India, JRD Tata, had he been alive now. For Tatas, getting back Air India must have...

It is interesting to note that in the first place, there never was no Nobel Prize for Journalism or Freedom of Expression. Yet, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded November 8 two journalists – Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia –the Nobel...

In his speech of 8 August 2019 explaining the move to ‘deoperationalise’ Article 370 (it has not been revoked or removed as is widely assumed), the Prime Minister said the following: That the development of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh was being held back by Article...

Buoyed by her thumping win in the Bhabanipur byelection, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is now mulling on introducing lateral entry into the state government a la the Central government. Sources say that the state government is hoping to get domain specialists in senior...

Gordon Brown & Allan Goodman The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan – now some 2.6 million strong – is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today’s 82.4 million refugees and forcibly displaced persons were gathered into a single state it would be...

Daron Acemoglu With the price of Bitcoin reaching new highs, and El Salvador and Cuba deciding to accept it as legal tender, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. What implications will this have for money and politics? Money depends on trust. It is accepted in exchange...

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) police claims to be too busy to arrest the son of a Union Minister of State alleged to have run over two protesting farmers. The brutal killings of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, October 3 under the wheels of the...