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For years, officers within India’s Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) have quietly seethed at the glass ceiling above them; one made not of merit, but of deputation. Top posts in CRPF, BSF, CISF and other forces were long dominated by Indian Police Service (IPS) officers...

Dani Rodrik We need new ideas to address the three greatest economic challenges of our time: climate change, the erosion of the middle class, and poverty. The first is an existential threat to our physical environment; the second drives polarisation and undermines democracy; and the...

“We're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country,” US President Donald Trump recently told reporters in the White House. His administration had already begun to do just that, using air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean...

There was no dearth of pomp and ceremony as President Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan took oath of office 3 November with the diplomatic corps attending the swearing-in proceedings. But unlike at previous swearing ceremonies, members of the public were conspicuous by their absence and that...

A proxy war is being waged in Sudan taking a heavy toll of human lives and leaving behind a trail of blood, rape and genocidal violence on an unprecedented scale. The fierceness has assumed such proportions that the country is now being virtually carved out...

In a move that has stunned world leaders and alarmed non-proliferation experts, US President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed the Pentagon to “start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis” with other countries. The announcement, made on his social media platform Truth...

Aakar Patel I walk out of my house and onto the street and look around. Not much is different from 10 years ago except that there is more traffic. ‘Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure’, reads a headline from a...

Syed Ali Murtaza Rizvi’s decision to hang up his boots eight years ahead of time has clearly rattled the Telangana Secretariat, and with good reason. Rizvi is a senior babu with impeccable credentials, heading two sensitive departments — Revenue and GAD (Political), and his calling...

By Yuen Yuen Ang Conflicts, trade wars, inequality, and democratic decay fill today’s headlines. Each crisis appears to be feeding the next, and it can feel as though the world is coming apart. Western leaders and thinkers have embraced a single word to capture this...

By Senem Aydın-Düzgit US President Donald Trump’s ferocious assault on American institutions over the last nine months is a particularly morbid symptom of the global decline of democracy. But Trump has merely capitalized on a process that was well underway before his return to the...