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What will be the effect of the alliances being formed against the Bharatiya Janata Party across the country? The obvious conclusion will be that the BJP will take fewer seats than in 2019. The history of electoral alliances in India is that when the dominant...

With time for the general elections and Assembly polls in a few states getting closer, various interest groups have upped the ante against the government — building pressure on it to get their pound of flesh. Ever since the results of the Assembly elections in...

One aspect of India that the country has always claimed to be its biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: Diversity. While we have blamed the British for their ‘divide and rule’ policy, truth may be that the colonial power would not have had to...

Only 10 Indian scientists have found place in a recent list of 4,000 highly cited researchers (HCRs) globally, brought out by Clarivate Analytics, a company that chiefly offers subscription-based analytics, including scientific and academic research, and produces the list of people with multiple papers, who...

The past year was a mixed bag for investors in Indian stocks. Key indices registered small gains while the broader markets turned laggards. The comforting element, however, was that overall the markets witnessed gains. Both the Nifty50 and Sensex30 ended the year with gains of...

The Directorate of Primary Education and Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board have issued a funny notification to schools under them, which they claim is aimed at fostering patriotism among students from childhood. The notification says students should be asked to respond to their...

As 2019 enters the threshold bringing ‘promises’ in an election year, genuine farmers in Odisha and elsewhere will certainly look forward to avenues to sell their grains. Not certainly loan waiver promises from political parties. The farmers know, the mandis are open for mill owners...

In 2010, when 33 men got trapped in a copper-gold mine in the Atacama desert in Chile, an operation with the support of global experts in rescue was initiated, and innovative technologies were deployed to ensure that the men could be extracted from the hole...

I am writing this from Japan and Korea, both ancient Asian cultures like ours and it gives one the opportunity to compare them with us. Today Korea has a per capita income of six times that of India’s and Japan has a per capita income...

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was caught on camera instructing someone (apparently a police officer according to reports) over phone to mercilessly kill the people behind the murder of JD(S) leader H Prakash in Mandya district of south Karnataka. The chief minister later went on...