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It’s hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura’s cadre as a crypto-threshold moment. Between 2019 and 2023, young administrative talent from IAS batches of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and even 2023 have been migrating, often in tandem with...

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the RSS headquarters are located, he expressed concern over the “rising” number of poor. He said wealth was “getting concentrated” in the hands of some affluent...

The coming together of the Thackeray cousins – Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray – on 5 July, two decades after they had fallen out, could not have happened at a more opportune time. The...

Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh’s candid revelations about Operation Sindoor at a FICCI event ‘New Age Military Technologies’ on 4 July in New Delhi bring home the fact that India faces a multi-pronged threat when it comes to dealing with...

The BJP’s constitution (Article 3) says, “Integral Humanism shall be the philosophy of the party.” The party’s membership form has a pledge which members are required to take. The first line of this pledge is: “I believe in Integral Humanism which is the basic philosophy...

India’s espionage architecture is quietly shifting. The appointment of Parag Jain as the new chief of RAW comes at a particularly volatile moment globally. Iran has just executed alleged Mossad assets and detained hundreds, reportedly triggering emergency backchannel coordination by several countries, including India. A...

Revolting against oppression and seeking freedom is ingrained in human nature, something that a repressive regime finds out sooner or later. Change is the only constant, and therefore, it is difficult to hold people under sway for an indefinite period of time through aggressive measures....

US President Donald Trump, who had comfortably defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election and exuded supreme confidence since then, now seems to be rattled by the challenge posed by Democratic candidate for the mayoral election of the crucial New York...

Months ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 28 June launched a ‘special intensive revision’ of electoral rolls in the state, a move that critics argue undermines the core principles of democracy, especially, universal adult franchise as guaranteed...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went relatively unnoticed. This was of the formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and the reasons for its coming into being. On 5 May 1950, SP Mookerjee...