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The appointment of additional director general of police (ADGP) rank police officer OP Singh as Principal Secretary of Haryana’s Department of Sports and Youth Affairs has triggered a turf war, with IAS officers questioning the move for being “against civil service rules”. According to sources,...

It is very rarely that changes in personal income tax, the most sought after portion of a Budget monologue, could still lack clarity even nearly a week after it was put up in the public domain. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in one of her...

The Moon influences life with its light. Moonlight, its presence and absence, affects reproduction, foraging, communication and other aspects of an animal’s world. Nocturnal animals can hunt or forage more easily under the light of the Moon — although venturing out on moonlit nights also...

Scientists have discovered warm water — about two degrees above freezing — beneath an Antarctic glacier named Thwaites. This glacier is believed to be melting irreversibly, which has also earned it the nickname ‘Doomsday Glacier’. The disappearance of this 74,000 square mile block of ice...

It would appear that there is a curious and enforced intermingling of the anti-CAA protests and the Delhi Assembly polls that will be held a week hence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi provided an icing on the cake by saying there was a political design behind...

It is important in a democracy that the institutions and systems that it runs should maintain and keep promoting their mutual strengths, reliability, respectability and credibility. It is said that any democratic society depends on all the three pillars of the governance system – namely,...

The Gujarat Model was based on a particular narrative. It was that under Narendra Modi, there would be a departure from the way that government in India was run. It would be made more efficient, leaner and less corrupt. The existing bureaucratic apparatus would be...

The quashing of the appointment of Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) is a big blow to the state government, though not entirely unexpected. The tribunal also stated that the process followed in Gupta’s appointment last February was against the provisions...

As India is facing its worst economic slowdown in decades, the situation has thrown up a mix of challenges and opportunities for this government as it prepares for the Union Budget. However, before writing what the government should do or should not do in the...

Every year, several million women die of breast cancer. My mother died of it. Many of my friends have it. Some have had their breasts removed. Some are undergoing chemotherapy and have lost their hair. It is no longer a hidden disease that one talks...