The exodus of refugees from Myanmar (Burma) escaping crackdown by the military junta of that country to the bordering Indian state of Mizoram has created a diplomatic-humanitarian dilemma for India. The repression by the junta since it engineered a coup February 1 to deny power...
India needs to tread cautiously while intensifying defence cooperation with the US Commands in the Indo-Pacific region and Africa ostensibly to checkmate China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh sounded confident during a joint media address along with US Secretary of Defence General (Retd) Lloyd James Austin...
One of the problems of writing in these times is that little makes sense. There is no real connection to reality with news and therefore commenting on it, which is the work I am doing here, is useless. There is no role for an analyst...
The merger of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre into the UT cadre, among other things, is meant to address the old problem of the acute shortage of IAS officers in the Union territory. The erstwhile J&K cadre had a stipulated strength of 137 IAS officers...
Paddy procurement has always been a problem area in our state. Every year, the government receives flak for its inept handling of the programme. The Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC), the key player of the state’s `12,000 crore plus paddy procurement programme, has not...
Maneka Gandhi In 1987, a street litter of a month old puppies, being fed by me, started dying at an alarming rate. The splotches of blood in their stool were diagnosed as parasitic worms. The ill-informed vet immediately gave them deworming tablets (which is a...
The two-day national strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions, to register their protest against the Centre’s proposed privatisation and disinvestment plan, entered the second day on March 16 causing widespread hardships to customers across...
The run-up to the Assembly polls in West Bengal has grabbed national headlines for the fierce fight being witnessed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. It is more so because of the injuries Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sustained hours after she filed her...
The Quad virtual summit, attended by the heads of states of USA, Japan, Australia and India for the first time 12 March, came up with a new tactic to stop China. The four countries of the group have pledged to deliver a billion doses of...
The BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It is hard to see why it will not win the Assembly elections because it has so much more resource than the rest (more than 90 per cent of electoral bond money,...
By Aakar Patel Work on Donald Trump’s arch begins in Washington, DC, this month. Fashioned on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe,...
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Four senior officers sent back to their cadres within a week would be noteworthy. Three of them being barred from...
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News has come from Germany that might upset liberal and democratic forces across the world. The Far-Right Alternative for Germany...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s announcement on 13 September of the government’s resolve to enforce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC)...
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