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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...

The Election Commission has already started gearing up for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections due in May 2021, starting with the babus who will be on election duty. In a recent letter to the state Chief Electoral Officer Sathyabrata Sahoo and Chief Secretary K Shanmugam,...

Lending apps in the country offering easy loans to people has come up as a challenge for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Reports of harassment of borrowers by recovery agents engaged by these unauthorised app companies have come from many states. Acting on these...

In the book/film ‘Sophie’s Choice’, the protagonist is forced to choose between the lives of her two children. How would you decide? Many meat eaters try to justify killing animals by claiming they can neither feel nor think. They place intelligence as the primary criterion...

The State Government has, in a Cabinet meet held 28 Dec 2020, decided to reserve seats in Engineering and Medical courses for students passing out of government schools. This has been done to encourage government school students who are currently dropping out in large numbers....

Undeterred by repeated judicial pronouncements to the contrary, the Madhya Pradesh government seems to on a crusade against the so-called love jihad. On the other hand, the BJP led Karnataka government had announced early December it won’t bring the love-jihad legislation in the winter session....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to kill two targets – the ongoing farmers’ agitation and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - with one swipe in his much-awaited interaction with farmers at a virtual event on 25 December. The exercise, however, showed a deplorable lack of...