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India is now in the grip of the third wave of the CoVID-19 pandemic. The official data just released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation offer a grim picture of the country’s economy ravaged by the pandemic. As projected by government statistics, India’s...

It is a chilling thought for any country to raise a contingent of suicide bombers as part of its regular armed forces. This is for the simple reason that suicide bombing cannot be a legitimate form of any defence system. It has always been a...

Novak Djokovic would have never thought he would have to play in an altogether different court in Melbourne – the court of law. January 10, Djokovic’s appeal against deportation would be heard and the court will decide whether he can defend his Australian Open Champion...

Some changes come up on us so slowly that the present generation does not take on the responsibility of the consequences. Climate change is the obvious issue that we can think of to illustrate this. One remembers phrases and words like ‘greenhouse gas’ and ‘chlorofluorocarbons’...

The secretary-level reshuffle, in which nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries, is being depicted as an opportunity for upward mobility for 1990-batch IAS officers who were waiting for secretary-level postings at the Centre for a long time. However, people are still trying to...

Michael Lind Much remains to be learned about what happened in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. But almost from the moment that rioters stormed the Capitol, it has been clear that America’s constitutional order resisted Donald Trump’s effort to subvert it. The available evidence suggests...

Peter Singer Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranking tennis player, has just been granted a medical exemption to take part in the Australian Open. Djokovic, who has won the event nine times (one more victory would give him a record-breaking 21 major titles), refused to show...

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to raise the age of legal marriage for women from 18 to 21, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, appears to be yet another exercise of the BJP government in tinkering with...

Sudarshan Iyengar When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on the ascendant in Gujarat, there was a lot of talk about the so-called ‘Gujarat model that could be applied to the entire country. This of course was talking about the economic model. But not all Indians...

Since Karl Marx coined the phrase, it has become an axiomatic truth for Communists of all denominations to consider religion as ‘the opium of the masses.’ The logical corollary to it for Communist countries is to remove all vestiges of religions and subject people following...