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The Bharatiya Janata Party has evolved over the years in an unusual manner, going from being conservative on social issues to radical. In its formative decades, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh even when under Atal Bihari Vajpayee showed itself to be hesitant to take up issues...

The annual conference of principal secretaries of states and union territories held recently had one theme that overrode other discussions on administration and administrative reforms-related work. Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh asked the states to spare more IAS, IPS and IFoS officers...

Thousands of women and girls have taken to the streets of Afghanistan’s cities to protest the repeated violation of their right to an education. The trigger for the protests – occurring simultaneously with protests in Iran – was last month’s terrorist attack on an education...

The USA and China are now locked in shadow boxing to impress their respective domestic audience and also allies. This is the inescapable conclusion one can draw from the US President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy (NSS) and China’s President Xi Jinping’s inaugural...

On the first day of the 20th party congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) October 16, its general secretary and China’s President Xi Jinping set the tone of the aggressive policies and programmes he intends to follow for the next five years. His inaugural...

Sometimes important things fall out of the news cycle and for this reason must continue to be emphasised. Journalists and columnists must not let go of their primary role merely because the entertaining material generates more response from readers and viewers. In 2014, India's ranking...

As poll fever grips Gujarat, the administration is in a churn. Babus are being transferred frequently with the forthcoming Assembly elections in mind. Last week, Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel ordered the transfers of the municipal commissioners of Surat and Vadodara. This raised questioning eyebrows in...

Although uncertainty prevails in today’s global energy market, one thing has become clear: Governments are reasserting their central role. The motive is pragmatic rather than ideological, and the details vary from one country to another, but the trend is unmistakable. Governments of all political hues...

The assertion of the Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit October 10 that a petitioner may be right in saying the country’s atmosphere is being vitiated by hate campaigns speaks volumes for the abuse of religions by a section of...

People in Iran, especially school and college-going women, are at the end of their tether, protesting against the intolerant and autocratic regime continuing to trample women’s fundamental, democratic rights. The extent of the anger is such that unthinkable things are happening in that country. The...