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There are fast moves in babudom bureaucracy, and then there is the Sujit Kumar story, which has impressed many in service circles. In just 51 days, Kumar went from Principal Commissioner in Delhi to BJP MLA from Gaura Bauram in Darbhanga, Bihar. Normally, such transitions...

The first murmurings of rebellion against Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz are now being heard, just six months after he assumed office. When he took over, Europe came to terms with Donald Trump’s return to White House and the financial markets in Paris, Milan, and Berlin...

A tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina November 17 to death. The verdict was pronounced after convicting her of crimes against humanity, including murder and ordering the use of lethal weapons against protesters during the student uprising that ultimately ousted her...

Recent election results from Bihar Legislative Assembly could be counted as great pointers for the emergence, in the near future, of a healthy democratic atmosphere in India. Undoubtedly, the general feeling that media reports gave prior to polling was that Nitish + BJP and allies...

Aakar Patel Some years ago, NITI Aayog said it would prepare a ‘single, informative dashboard for all the twenty-nine (later 32) global indices’ on which India was ranked. This monitoring exercise was ‘not just to improve rankings but to improve systems and drive reforms to...

By Dilip Cherian Sudhansh Pant’s abrupt move from Rajasthan’s highest babu kursi to a central posting has triggered an immediate surge of speculation and conversation in Jaipur. On paper, it’s a standard reshuffle: a senior IAS officer, 1991 batch, taking charge as Secretary in the...

Eileen Mairena Cunningham When indigenous peoples are mentioned in the context of climate change, my mind immediately goes to images of my grandmother’s roofless and flooded house, destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane and a Category 4 storm in quick succession. I also move beyond...

David Miliband America’s role in international aid has been turned upside down since January, with institutions shuttered, policies upended, and funding slashed. It is now unclear what lies ahead for American policy, the international aid system, or the world’s poorest. All we know is that...

UN climate talks, known as Conference of Parties or COP, have begun in Brazil from 10 November. With the participation of about 50,000 delegates from almost every country, this marks the 30th edition of the conference known as COP 30. The conference is to continue...

Misogyny and sexual assault on women have become a deeply ingrained male perversion across the globe. Neither the so-called developed nor developing countries are immune to this vice, which does not seem to accept geographical frontiers. But when the body of the highest functionary of...