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The Supreme Court’s direction to all states and Union Territories to register cases on their own against those making hate speeches is a very welcome step. This development, to rein in hate mongers, has been damaging the social fabric of this nation for the past...

Sabka Saath is a lie or a delusion. More likely a lie because exclusion is deliberately perpetrated and institutionalised in the BJP. It has no Muslim MP or MLA but says Sabka Saath. Its ministers garland those who are convicted of lynching minorities, but it...

The race is on to succeed the Director General of Police (DGP) of Tamil Nadu C. Sylendra Babu who is due for superannuation at the end of June. The buzz in Delhi seems to suggest that Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora is a sure-shot winner,...

India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to latest UN population estimates. The projections are calculated through a combination of factors including dated census data and birth and death rates. The exact figures show India having a population of 1.4286 billion...

Bureaucrats in India need to learn a lesson from their counterparts in the UK who have been instrumental in the removal of Dominic Raab from the posts of Deputy Prime Minister, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor. The bureaucracy that the British bequeathed to India was...

Finally, the government has broken its silence on the explosive disclosures on the Pulwama terror attack by former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik. The response in the form of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks during a media outlet’s programme April 22 came...

New India is again the world’s most populous nation. Old India was also the most populous place in the world till 1947 so this is in that sense not new. If the idea is that political boundaries do not affect historical nations then India has...

The voter data theft case in Karnataka (reported in this column on December 29, 2022) has come alive again, just when the state is about to go to polls. A probe by the Election Commission, conducted by IAS officer Amlan Aditya Biswas, Regional Commissioner, Bengaluru...

The most astounding aspect of the sensational and damning disclosures about the 2019 Pulwama attack made by former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik against the BJP-led government at the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the government’s pregnant silence and refusal to...

The irony of the horrific custody killing of Atiq Ahmed, the UP don-turned-politician and former Member of Parliament along with his brother Ashraf in the presence of police by three criminals is that the two brothers had sought help from the courts for their security...