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As part of the Unlock process set in motion now, the Centre has issued guidelines for reopening of schools in a phased manner from 15th October. States and Union Territories have been asked to frame their own Standard Operating Procedures for safely reopening schools based...

Doubts are being raised about India’s commitment to human rights after the strange manner in which the Centre has frozen the funds of Amnesty International (AI) and applied curbs on its functioning in this country. A peeved AI has stopped its activities for now. Considering...

Hathras is a small town in Uttar Pradesh and, according to the Puranas, this settlement could have been as old as the Mahabharata. Popular for its literary and cultural background, it is from here that the great Hindi satirical poet Kaka Hathrasi was born. In...

Aakar Patel The Indian State, meaning the government in all its forms but especially the Union government, is a slightly strange creature. It is in name and form a democracy and even a liberal one. A liberal democracy is defined as “a democratic system of...

The three-month mandatory cooling-off period has been waived for IPS officer Gupteshwar Pandey, who was DGP Bihar and who sought voluntary retirement from service (VRS). This was done to allow him join politics and possibly contest the upcoming state Assembly elections. Pandey, who shot into...

The Vodafone case has refused to go from the public memory. The latest episode in the 13-year-old saga has come in the form of a ruling by the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague in favour of the British telecom major. The ruling, if...

What is Maya? Narada Muni wanted the answer so he meditated for decades until Vishnu appeared. “Come,” the god said, “let us walk and I will tell you what Maya is.” They walked on the hot sands of the desert and soon they were tired,...

Running a media establishment is an expensive and difficult proposition, be it print, TV or internet based. Overhead costs are high and unbearable for most, and these establishments somehow make ends meet. Except for a few that have other business interests and the media arm...

It would now appear that the entire nation has, or would soon, erupt into massive farmer protests over the new agriculture legislation that the Union government has brought about in the brief Monsoon Session of Parliament. What started as protests in Punjab and Haryana a...

The Covid pandemic’s sweep in India is widening. It is virtually on a roll, its reach covering the entire nation. From a daily tally of less than a thousand in the beginning of April, the per-day infection rate is currently in the range of nearly...