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A new electoral campaign is becoming the trend across the globe. Politicians are mixing the emotions of love and joy with issues concerning bread and butter to get votes. This is a welcome development at a time when peddling hatred and discrimination has almost become...

Three days after Sheikh Hasina resigned and ran away from Bangladesh the country’s only Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, assumed charge as the “chief adviser” of a caretaker government formed to bring peace and democracy that had, as her critics say, been undermined during her 15...

I n a country where most institutions are happy being subservient to the status quo and none has the guts to call a spade a spade, it took a foreign entity to expose the prevailing muck in the entire capital market. US based agency Hindenburg...

Events in Bangladesh and the overthrow of the government have come with predictable violence especially against the minorities, particularly Hindus. Attacking minorities is for some reason a pillar of nationalism in South Asia’s post independence states. All nations here also contend with an unresolved identity...

Preety Sudan has her work cut out as she steps into the role of UPSC chairperson. Taking over from Dr Manoj Soni, who resigned unexpectedly amidst a storm of controversy, she faces the daunting task of restoring the commission’s credibility. Soni resigned for personal reasons...

Autocratic rulers across the globe continue to stay in power in the teeth of widespread popular protests through manipulation of elections. Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela is one such leader who was declared the winner recently and the Opposition, rejecting the claim, has now called on...

In a fast paced development, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly resigned, run away to India and has supposedly taken refuge in Delhi 5 August. Weeks of protests over job quota reforms had thrown the country into the worst ever turmoil since the war of...

Wayanad, a hilly district in north Kerala, came face to face with the wrath of nature in the early hours of 30 July as massive landslides of unprecedented scale buried hundreds in their sleep. Experts are of the view that it was a disaster in...

The dictionary defines the word ‘propaganda’ as being ‘information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.’ In Old India, propaganda was managed by controlling Doordarshan. Or at least that is what political parties assumed. The...

The Pooja Khedkar scandal is causing quite a stir and revealing some ugly truths about our bureaucracy. The rot runs deep. Ever since the news broke about IAS probationer Puja Khedkar using fake documents about her caste and financial status to snag her position, the...