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After remaining deafeningly silent on a media report casting serious doubts about the fairness and functioning of the Election Commission (EC) on the crucial exercise of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the EC held a meeting September 26 attended by all its three members...

By Aakar Patel Corruption and bribery are two words that are interchangeable. Or are they? Bribery, in the way that we use it today, is of 16th-century origin and is defined as the “act of magistrates taking money for corrupted services”. Note that corruption is...

By Dilip Cherian The next big change in India’s babudom may not come through another cadre reform or a new rulebook. It may come through the dashboard. The Centre is steadily pushing the IAS towards AI-assisted, data-driven administration. In June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told...

The alleged suicide by a second-year B. Tech student of the prestigious IIT Bombay, one of India’s most premier institutes, has brought into national focus a shocking and painful phenomenon occurring with frightening regularity in several IITs of the country for some time, but not...

Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of voicing democratic protests against or anger at government actions or inactions. Any attempt to suppress such criticism in a democratic set-up entails great risks and...

Almost ten years ago on 8 November 2016 when PM Narendra Modi personally, in a highly insensitive and arbitrary manner, junked about 86 per cent of the total value of currency in circulation at the time in India in one evening, it was a major...

By Aakar Patel Work on Donald Trump’s arch begins in Washington, DC, this month. Fashioned on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, this 250-foot structure is ostensibly meant to mark the 250th year of American independence from England, but it is really a monument to Trump. He...

Four senior officers sent back to their cadres within a week would be noteworthy. Three of them being barred from returning to the Centre through an extended cooling-off condition makes it a much stronger signal. The latest round saw Ajay Nagabhushan MN, Satya Pratap Singh...

News has come from Germany that might upset liberal and democratic forces across the world. The Far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has swept the polls in the recent regional election of Saxony-Anhalt, inflicting a crushing defeat on the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s announcement on 13 September of the government’s resolve to enforce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in 21 states ruled by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) before the 2029 Lok Sabha polls has made it clear the BJP will go...