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The Supreme Court is intervening to help end the anti-CAA protests by a band of ordinary women — not even activists — who are on a sit-in at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi for the past two months. The Apex Court’s emissaries, namely two senior lawyers...

It now is time for President Trump to take a close call on India. The US president will touch down on the Indian soil a week hence, on a two-day visit that will see him and wife Melania whizzing past people and power centres in...

  In the same period as Make in India, Bangladesh's share of manufacturing has risen from 16 per cent to 18 per cent. Bangladesh's GDP overall is growing at 8 per cent per year, much faster than India. And the surprising thing is that in...

The Modi sarkar is likely to cut down on foreign training of bureaucrats under the Domestic Funding of Foreign Training (DFFT) policy due to the rising cost of sending babus abroad. In 2018-19, the government spent Rs 60 crore to train 332 bureaucrats, which is...

The United States has classified India as a ‘developed economy’ to justify the country’s removal from its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme. The programme gives developing economies tariff-free access to the US. At its face value, the development was thrilling for every Indian. Naturally...

One of the biggest rackets in the country is of illegal "cold storages", or "meat processing" factories. Last year I went to Belagavi, Karnataka, to answer a frantic call for help by local residents who had uncovered a number of cold storages or meat processing...

If there is one unequivocal message that the mandate from Delhi sends across to the ‘pantheon’ of political parties in India, it is that equitable development, or even a semblance of it, gets votes. It is also a clear signal that people are no longer...

A set of parties moved motions in Parliament Monday (February 10, 2020) asking the Centre to remedy the consequences of a Supreme Court judgement on quotas. The apex court had last Friday overturned an Uttarakhand High Court direction to the government of that state to...

It has been more than half a year since the government clamped down on Jammu and Kashmir to ensure the smooth implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the newly formed Union Territory. But the government is still unsure whether it can ‘safely’ lift the...

India’s Supreme Court suo moto (on its own) wants to hear the matter of an infant dying after being brought to the Shaheen Bagh protests. It is also separately hearing on Monday, February 10, the matter of the protests obstructing traffic. The SC has not...