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Peter Singer The right to assistance in dying continues to gain ground. Last month, the Spanish parliament passed legislation, expected to come into effect in June, permitting doctors to assist adult patients to die if they have a “serious and incurable” disease that causes “unbearable...

Five years ago, I requested the Head of the Bar Council of India to get animal welfare introduced as a subject in the law colleges. He did it immediately. The result has been much more sensitive and informed lawyers, an annual moot court that is...

The revelation on April 4 in an online French journal, Mediapart, based on findings of AFA or Agence Française Anticorruption, that the Rafale fighter jet deal involved a payment worth one million euros (Rs 8.62 crore) by its maker Dassault to an Indian middleman has...

The death of 22 security personnel in a deadly Left Wing Extremists (LWE) or Maoist ambush in the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh on April 3 has brought to the fore not only the inherent flaw in the Centre’s handling of the problem but a...

The Election Commission’s role in conducting free and fair polling during the ongoing elections to the four states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry has unfortunately caused misgivings. Starting from the use of Aadhaar data to send bulk...

I finished writing a book called the ‘Price of the Modi Years’ a few days ago. It should be published later this year. It is a history of India since 2014 and I have examined the facts and the data on various parts of the...

Wonder why key appointments in the public sector are held up? Here’s a clue. The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has been functioning without a chairperson since September last year when the then chairman Rajiv Kumar was shifted to the Election Commission. Also, the key...

Reports about our neighbours encroaching on our territories by offering blandishments to people of border villages are dime a dozen in our state media. Every day, newspapers carry such stories. West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and even Chhattisgarh governments are accused of indulging in such overreach....

Even though people have been vegetarian for centuries (Confucious, Plato, Jesus and his brother John, Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein are some that I can think of outside India), the term vegetarian was coined in 1839 and referred to people who ate a plant-based diet....

The great events of the golden jubilee celebration of the formation of Bangladesh and the birth centenary of the nation's architect, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, have needlessly got mired in a controversy. This happened due to a statement by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka...