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The appointment of retired IAS officer Navneet Kumar Sehgal as the chairperson of Prasar Bharati Board has all the signs of the complex and subtly adversarial interplay between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The post had remained vacant for over four...

In Nepal’s volatile politics making new alliances or shuffling the pack of probable allies has become so common place that the victory of the Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal, in a vote of confidence recently, is not surprising. But, its importance lies in the...

After “wilful disobedience” of the Supreme Court’s historic order, the State Bank of India (SBI) has submitted incomplete data on the electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India (ECI), an act for which the bank got a rap on the knuckles from the Apex...

After CAA, can we expect an NPR and an NRC? That would depend on who in the government one believes. Let’s have a look at the real chronology. After the Shaheen Bagh protests began, the Prime Minister at a rally in Delhi on 22 December...

In Modi sarkar’s initial years since 2014, senior babus witnessed uncertain tenures, often shuffled between ministries within months. Even those in ministries like Defence, Home and Finance, and with fixed two-year tenures, faced premature transfers. But now, after a decade, this trend has noticeably reversed....

The Supreme Court (SC) has shown it has muscle too. The timing of this demonstration of brute power of the Apex Court could not have been better, although it may not have come as an utter surprise to those in power. SC’s order to the...

The way the State Bank of India (SBI) has sought to interpret the Supreme Court’s order declaring the Centre’s Electoral Bond Scheme (EBS) unconstitutional and virtually declined to disclose the identities of both the buyers and recipients of the bonds tends to confirm the fact...

The out-of-the-blue resignation of Election Commissioner (EC) Arun Goel just days ahead of the possible announcement of dates for the general elections has sparked a political firestorm and triggered a flurry of speculations. Whether he resigned due to differences with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)...

There was a popular video recently by a young man named Dhruv Rathee, which irked the government’s supporters. Its broad argument may be understood by the title, which was “Is India becoming a dictatorship?” The examples used in the video included the recent rigging of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s preferred lateral entry, introduced with much fanfare in 2018, received a lukewarm response and soon got passed over and forgotten. But Modi never dropped the ball. Now, lateral entry has made a formidable comeback as Modi’s second term comes to a...