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Government watchers are keenly watching the ongoing crosstalk between the Supreme Court and the Central government over the latter’s delay in filling the vacancies in the National Company Law Tribunals (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). The vacancies have slowed down the...

Angel Gurría COVID-19 has sharpened the focus on many challenges with which the world has long been grappling, including rising inequality, insufficient access to adequate healthcare and education, and climate change. Long before the pandemic, people had begun to ask hard questions about globalisation and...

Ian Buruma Two days before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Charles de Gaulle demanded the right to govern France after it was liberated by the Allies. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who detested de Gaulle, had no intention of agreeing to this. Winston Churchill, who rather...

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition outright September 20 filed by a class XII student seeking direction to the Centre and states to physically reopen schools in a time-bound programme and conduct offline teaching. The refusal to entertain the plea has certainly absolved the judiciary...

Some may consider it a sad commentary on the Congress leadership that it took four years and seven months to oust Captain Amarinder Singh as Punjab Chief Minister and find his replacement. It may be a grave mistake to presume that the Captain had no...

A virtual diplomatic war has broken out between France on one hand and the AUKUS (Australia-UK-USA) combine on the other over the new alliance among the three latter countries September 16 and its fallout - a nuclear-powered submarine deal clinched between Australia and the USA....

A few months after taking office, Modi said in the Lok Sabha that MNREGA would be continued only because it would show how poorly Manmohan Singh’s government had performed. “My political instincts tell me that MNREGA should not be discontinued,” he said, mocking the Opposition...

HUDCO, the premier government housing financing corporation, has been without a regular chairman and managing director since September 2019, when Dr M Ravi Kanth resigned from the IAS after an extended tenure. Strangely, the government has been content with temporary CMDs by appointing assorted IAS...

Biniam Bedasso The civil war in northern Ethiopia has entered its 11th month. The conflict, which started in the Tigray region, has expanded to the neighbouring regions of Amhara and Afar. More than two million people have been displaced and the destruction of civilian infrastructure...

Simon Zadek The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately $8 trillion annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly $12 trillion. And this is not the system’s only contradiction. Around the world, food systems are both affected by climate change (owing...