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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has been quite keen to add more joint secretaries to the diplomatic pool to staff new embassies and consulates being set up in various countries. Now, after some wait, headway has been made in this direction with the government...

The state government has set out to spend an estimated Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the 2021-22 financial year – a rise of over 13 per cent over the last year’s annual Budget. The annual credit plan for the year 2021-22 has been enhanced to...

India has the world’s largest number of cattle. They are not being worshipped in temples, they are not ambling through the countryside eating as they move. They are being hit by farmers in whose fields they come to eat, they are being thrown acid on...

The egregiously false claim made in the presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan by Baba Ramdev that his Patanjali product Coronil is the “first evidence-based medicine for Covid-19” having World Health Organisation (WHO) certification has shocked the medical community and brought into focus the...

This government, claiming to be the strongest ever, now seems to be lurching from one crisis to another and it seeks remedies not by looking within itself but by blaming everyone else. The blame game happening now, in the seventh straight year of being in...

The farmers’ agitation against the farm laws that put the government in a bad light both nationally and internationally is now pushed out of the main media headlines. Instead, a sideshow - the arrest of pro-farmer environment activist, Disha Ravi and proceedings in the court...

The price of petrol has crossed Rs 100 in parts of India for the first time. A parallel development is that of the total revenue that the government receives, 33 per cent or one-third now comes from tax on fuel. India’s consumers pay the highest...

The capital’s Gymkhana Club, the 107-year-old watering hole favoured by the high and mighty of, currently beleaguered, Lutyens’ Delhi, is back in the news.  With its seemingly endless saga of mismanagement and irregularities, the club has been in the limelight a lot, unfortunately. The present...

Even as India’s GDP has been shrinking month after month, stock markets are rising to newer heights with every passing day. This dichotomy has been in full glare right since the second quarter of this financial year. An investor who put half their savings in...

In India most animal welfare people are vegetarians. We, in People for Animals, insist on that. After all, you cannot want to look after animals and then eat them. But most meat eaters, whether they are animal people or not, have a hesitant relationship with...