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Most policemen do not want to participate in encounters. This has resulted in India producing a category of men called encounter specialists or sharpshooters. This second word is wrongly applied and we will see why. First let us see what an encounter is. It is...

The more notable among reforms brought by the Modi sarkar since 2014 are evident in the way the government functions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s preference for bureaucrats over netas in running the government is well-known. He has also pushed through many policies to improve governance...

After five consecutive cuts in interest rates, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headed by Governor Shaktikanta Das, Thursday has unanimously voted to hit the pause button. The six-member panel has retained the key repo rate at 5.15 per...

Maneka Gandhi Veganism must become a political movement. At the moment it is nowhere near that, anywhere in the world. And the fault lies with vegans themselves. What is the current state? Capitalism has made it easy for every human to literally eat up the...

Industrialist Rahul Bajaj opined at an event organised by Economic Times recently that the government appeared to be unwilling to accept criticism of its actions and decisions. He said industrialists were in fear of the government and were unwilling to speak out openly on the...

When Nirbhaya was gang-raped in 2012, nationwide public outcry led to what appeared to be tighter laws that could check such crimes. But then we witnessed Kathua, a gruesome rape and murder of a child that was most abhorrent. And now the rape and murder...

While it is common knowledge that the Indian economy is in a tailspin, the fresh release of data on GST collections for November, showing an upward jump, is by itself small consolation for the Modi government in its second term. The jump is minimal and...

The Modi government introduced the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) in 2015 to fund unfunded small entrepreneurs in the country. The scheme was meant to ensure funds never come up as a hurdle before good and powerful ideas and enterprises. These collateral free loans were...

Eleven years ago, November 26, India’s defences against external threats were put to test at its commercial capital Mumbai. That terrible terror attack is still fresh in memory. Come 2015, that same date of November 26 was adopted as Constitution Day. If in 2008 this...

A report published by the news website The Wire debunks Union government’s claim, made October 2, 2019, that rural India was open defecation free. While that claim implied that every household now had access to a toilet, the reality is far removed from that. A...