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A sharp division is evident as the Law Commission started eliciting opinions from political parties over the proposal for simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state Assemblies. Unanimity of opinion is unlikely in the present circumstances, also as some major issues need to be thrashed...

Too late, too little. It took the ruling BJP and its prime minister four long years to fulfil a poll promise; one that was to touch positively on the lives of farmers who form 70 per cent of this nation’s population. By raising the Minimum...

The job of the judiciary is to adjudicate on matters, not to frame policy or implement them, both being the jobs of the executive. Lately, however, this seems to be changing. For instance, today, more often than not, the Union Government is seen to be...

Forty-three per cent of the respondents to a query put by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on twitter approved of trolling and online abuse. It is no less than a blessing that those who were not in favour of trolling had the majority in this...

The roll-out of Goods and Services Tax (GST) — an amalgamation of some 40 taxes and cess in a chaotic market spread over 35 states and Union Territories – was touted as the most-comprehensive market reform in the country. However, it is also seen that...

Life in the United States has, for long, been punctuated by the play of laws relating to firearms and for which several Presidents were at the receiving end. Now surprisingly it seems that India, too, carries with it slurs of a similar kind as some...

Biju Patnaik Airport at Bhubaneswar got recognition from Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as an international airport on 30 October 2013. Later, from 26 April 2017 it started receiving international flights that commenced from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then Bangkok got direct connection from 10...

A federal structure of governance should ideally manifest as a harmonious, balanced and cooperative coexistence of Central and State governments. Sadly, seldom is anything ideal or perfect. Going by that truism, the tussles between the central and state governments in India should certainly be global...

Chinese Ambassador to India, Luo Zhaohui, has proposed that India, China and Pakistan should hold a trilateral summit. Luo has also said that the 5Cs — communication, cooperation, contacts, coordination and control — can help promote China-India relations. Although it remains to be seen whether...

The Capital City State of Delhi is undergoing a long period of administrative paralysis, as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and three of his ministers are keeping away from office and sitting in dharna at the Lt Governor’s (LG) official residence. Clearly, many files are not...