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The United Nations defines the rule of law as a “principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with...

The National Medical Commission (NMC) was created last year to replace the previous scam-tainted Medical Council of India (MCI) for the development and regulation of all aspects of medical education, profession and institutions. Yet, despite the urgency displayed in creating the new regulator, the government...

The state government has rolled out a credit plan for the state’s landless farmers. Christened as Balaram, a sibling of Lord KALIA, the scheme is touted to be a one of its kind in the country. On its face, the product looks novel, for this...

I  like pigeons. Their voices are soft and rhythmic. I have put up baskets for them in the front verandah and they live there quietly. They don’t ask for food – probably because they are fed at the roundabout near my house by compassionate people...

We are told there is a thaw in tensions in the Galwan Valley. After the death of 20 Indian soldiers in a skirmish with the Chinese PLA soldiers mid-June, the border face-off between India and China had drawn international attention. Reports claim that after a...

A completely new threat seems to be emerging from China to harm human health in the form of a pandemic even as the world is fighting hard to overcome the coronavirus. Reappearing in the form of bubonic plague – or Black Death as it was...

Good news is that two Indian firms have come up with claims to have developed vaccines for Covid-19. This comes with a rider that the fast-track mode in which the vaccines are claimed to have been developed and scheduled for trial might not have seen...

For writers it has become difficult to pick which disaster to write about this week. There are so many. An embarrassment of riches, or actually whatever the opposite of it is. Let us start with health. On Friday, 22,000 Indians tested Covid positive and over...

Its earnings seriously dented by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Railways has announced a series of austerity measures. These range from a freeze on creation of new posts, rationalisation of manpower at workshops, shifting outsources work to CSR and moving ceremonial events to digital platforms to...

In the aftermath of the outbreak of COVID-19 in India and the multiple lockdowns resulted in loss of jobs by millions of workers. The government injected multiple doses of stimulus to help the poor and the underprivileged tide over this crisis. Rs20 lakh crore was...