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Since we have entered the phase of Kartavyakal it may be instructive to see what happened in Amritkal. In 2017, NITI Aayog began putting together a five-year plan based on a call given by the Prime Minister. In August that year, Narendra Modi had pledged...

In a move that has drawn attention and speculation, the Centre recently extended the tenure of Brajendra Navnit, a 1999-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, currently serving as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. This...

Paris is burning and along with it several parts of France are engulfed in fire. The extent of violence, looting, attacks on public transports, infrastructure and public anger can be gauged from the fact that over 2,500 cases of arson have been reported from these...

Just like no one yet knows, even after a month has passed, the exact number of deaths that occurred due to the triple train accident at Bahanaga of Balasore in Orissa, similarly no one is aware of the correct number of deaths during the CoVID-19...

The Ajit Pawar saga is laughable and also seems to be unending. After the Maharashtra state Assembly election in 2019, the BJP –Shiv Sena combine fell apart on the issue of who shall become the Chief Minister. At that time, Ajit Pawar took a dramatic...

National security has been described as the “ability of a state to cater for the protection and defence of its citizenry” and of a “country’s ability to protect itself from the threat of violence or attack.” To understand New India’s national security doctrine, one has...

The recent action by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against IAS officer Sanjeev Jaiswal, allegedly involved in the COVID jumbo centre scam, has sparked apprehension among many IAS officers in Maharashtra. This apprehension stems from the backdrop of several IAS and IPS officers being incarcerated over...

It may not be difficult to understand why some folks active on social media in India, owing allegiance to BJP have suddenly started attacking the 44th US President, addressing him as Hussain Obama, specifically pointing out that he is a Moslem. This group includes a...

Things unfolded in the most dramatic fashion with breathtaking speed in Russia during the past few days when Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russia’s mercenary force, Wagner, rebelled against President Vladimir Putin. The world was taken by surprise by the suddenness of the development and what...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa hit bull’s eye when he lashed out at the rich countries for their failure to deliver the promised $100 billion in annual climate finance by 2020. He was speaking at French President Emmanuel Macron’s just concluded summit for a new...