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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...

The world media is stunned by a development in China that can be described as yet another example of the autocratic behaviour of China’s President Xi Jinping. He seems to be sending out the message to both his own people and the world that he...

On the day the Opposition put up a big show of unity in Patna 3 March for fighting the coming Lok Sabha polls together, the Narendra Modi government unveiled the grand action plan of ‘Vikshit Bharat 2047’ in New Delhi. This 25 long years vision...

As Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is all set to win yet another term in the Presidential election barely two weeks away, two things stand out in the country’s murky politics – the funeral of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in prison and Putin’s...