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The Chief Justice of India SA Bobde has passed caustic comments against the lower judiciary for granting bail to deceased gangster Vikas Dubey. Justice Bobde has commented that there seems to be ‘institutional failure’ when parole was granted to Dubey despite there being 65 FIRs...

Arvind Subramanian Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its opportunity to build a serious rival to, or even supplant,...

It seems Kerala has turned into the new Gold Coast for the time being. While earlier instances of gold smuggling were reported mostly from Gujarat, Daman and Maharashtra, Kerala has become the latest entrant. We in Odisha may not be surprised as similar and not...

The news agency ANI reported a story this week with the headline: “PM Modi taking input from top 50 officials to revive the economy.” The meeting was 90 minutes long and would have finance and commerce ministry officials making presentations on the situation. What would...

The Jammu & Kashmir administration has started issuing domicile certificates, 10 months after the Indian government abrogated Article 370. The new rules allow non-locals to get domicile certificates. Navin Kumar Choudhary, a senior IAS officer from Bihar, has become the first bureaucrat to get domicile...

The state government last week announced a slew of austerity measures in view of the falling revenues and to pool resources for meeting contingency spending arising out of multiple anti-Covid-19 programmes launched by the government. Expenses of every department barring the Health and Family Welfare...

Maneka Gandhi One of the silliest things on the internet is an international site called change.org. The owners have offices in a number of countries and the mandate seems to be that anyone who has a grievance, and wants it redressed, can list an issue...

Google Inc CEO Sundar Pichai, in a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 July, has said that Google will invest US$10 billion in the next five to seven years in India. Pichai’s words must have sounded like honey and sugar to an...

In a landmark judgement on Monday, the Supreme Court (SC) has upturned a verdict of the Kerala High Court and ruled that one of the world’s wealthiest shrines, the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple in the Thiruvananthapuram, would remain in the hands of the erstwhile Travancore...

For the Congress party, Rajasthan seems to be going the Madhya Pradesh (MP) way. A vertical split in the ruling party in MP brought down the Kamal Nath-led government in late March, days before the nationwide Lockdown was declared. Some reports at the time claimed...