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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...

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...