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US President Donald Trump, who had comfortably defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election and exuded supreme confidence since then, now seems to be rattled by the challenge posed by Democratic candidate for the mayoral election of the crucial New York...

Months ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 28 June launched a ‘special intensive revision’ of electoral rolls in the state, a move that critics argue undermines the core principles of democracy, especially, universal adult franchise as guaranteed...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went relatively unnoticed. This was of the formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and the reasons for its coming into being. On 5 May 1950, SP Mookerjee...

Since February, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been operating for the first time with two full principal secretaries, P.K. Mishra and Shaktikanta Das. The arrangement reflects the scale of ambition in Modi 3.0: fast-track delivery, tighter coordination, and a laser focus on 2030 goals....

A17-year-old girl was beaten to death by her father for not getting good score in a mock test for the pre-medical National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Sangli, Maharashtra, recently. The bright girl who had scored 95 per cent in Plus II lost her...

Normally, negatives do not make headlines. But, at times, they do. The recently concluded G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, turned out to be one such event when what did not happen mattered more than what did. The most crucial thing that did not take place...

Last week, when a reporter asked US President Donald Trump whether America would enter the war on Iran with close ally Israel, he replied in his characteristic fashion: “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to...

India has taken it as its responsibility to bring the Voice of the Global South (henceforth VoGS) to the world stage, our government declared this month. As one newspaper headline put it: “Time to Make Presence Felt, India Voice for Global South: S Jaishankar ahead...

The Modi government has recently relaxed its rules for selecting joint secretaries to encourage more IAS officers to take on central roles. The timing is telling. As of 2023, only 442 IAS officers were on board at the Centre versus the “required” 1,469 spots. That’s...

The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran has plunged the Middle East into deeper turmoil, with ramifications stretching far beyond the region. The latest round of hostilities, marked by Israel’s targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and Iran’s retaliatory ballistic missile launches, has intensified fears...