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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...

It is an irony of history that when the world has responded with alarm, alacrity and legitimate concern to the humanitarian crisis gripping Afghanistan following the Taliban’s return to power, the sufferings of Myanmar nationals persecuted and hounded out by the military junta are not...

Springing surprises has become a stock-in-trade for the BJP under the stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Starting from the dramatic and disastrous demonetization, the style of functioning of the two tallest leaders of the saffron brigade has now...

As the USA observed the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the symbols of America’s might by Al-Qaeda through a series of airstrikes that the world had never thought possible, US President Joe Biden did not utter a single word at the official programme...

Later this month, on 26 September, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha has called for a ‘Bharat Bandh’ to seek the repeal of the farm laws. The question is why is the protest, which began last year, still continuing? It is instructive to examine the details. The...

The 1985-batch IRS officer Jagannath Bidyadhar Mohapatra has little time to settle into his seat after finally being confirmed as chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), three months after the extended tenure of his predecessor PC Mody ended. The biggest challenge for...

Elizabeth Drew It is far from clear that President Joe Biden deserves the obloquy heaped on him for the US evacuation from Afghanistan. This is especially true given the endings of other American wars, and the nearly impossible situation confronting him – in particular, that...