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Every one, mistakenly, thought that it’s a sad commentary on the functioning of the country’s executive that finally made the Supreme Court get exasperated by its dilatory tactic on the three contentious farm laws passed recently. The impression was sought to be created on 11...

President Donald Trump has done it again and with vengeance. After failing to deny victory to President-elect Joe Biden through legal challenges and then instigating vandals, who went berserk at the Capitol on January 6, Trump has now chosen to make life difficult for Biden’s...

The permanent ban of US President Donald Trump on Twitter and the indefinite one on Facebook by the social media giants are measures too little, too late. The two platforms have been allowing top notch politicians and ruling parties across the world to use their...

This month we will celebrate Republic Day, which is different from Independence Day. The difference may not be fully understood or appreciated. On August 15 we mark the anniversary of the day that India stopped being ruled by outsiders. We refer to this as freedom....

IPS officer D Roopa, who was the first woman home secretary of Karnataka, has been transferred as the managing director of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation amid her public spat with another IPS officer Hemant Nimbalkar, who too also transferred. Nimbalkar was the additional commissioner...

According to a research, people lie at least once a day, but even that number is probably a lie. However, humans are not the only species on earth that are capable of deception. You will find as much danger and intrigue in the animal kingdom...

The Union government, while dealing with the farmers’ protest against its three contentious farm legislations, even after the seventh round of protracted and fruitless discussions on January 4 has not budged from its earlier stand. The agitating farmers have, from day one, been insisting that...

China is steadfastly reorganising its military might to advance its agenda of becoming the number one economic power of the world, making its defence system a key tool in the strategy for global dominance. With that objective in mind its revised National Defence Law (NDL)...

The government of India has recently proposed a draft law to raise legal age for smoking to 21 years from the present 18 years. Titled ‘Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply & Distribution) Amendment Act...

One of the many globally measured indicators that India has fallen in since 2014 is the Fragile States Index. Previously called the Failed States Index, it records security (of all types) and economic development. It categorises States are being one of 11 categories. The countries...