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There is every reason to doubt the intent of the 22nd Law Commission of India which has sought views from public and religious organisations about the implementation of the controversial Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that aims at framing one law governing marriages of all communities...

Manipur is burning. It has been turned into a virtual ‘necropolis’, as some women of the state have said with acute pain, with killings in ethnic clashes continuing in the valley and the hills with frightening regularity. Interestingly, the Chief Minister of Manipur had stated...

Thirty years ago the cartoonist Sudhir Tailang drew an image of the then Prime Minister with a caption that had words from the Gita: “This Self, weapons cannot pierce, nor fire can burn, water cannot wet, nor air can dry up. Changeless, all-pervading, unmoving, immovable.”...

As promotions in various ministries/departments are underway, and the chairmen of these bodies sit in on the meetings, having someone who is comparatively junior sitting as a Member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is becoming a matter of some embarrassment, if murmurs are...

The death of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister and one of the most remarkably colorful personalities of that country since World War II, marks the end of an era of thrills and fun. At the same time he leaves a dangerous legacy that brackets...

After tasting bitter defeat in the recent Karnataka Assembly elections only few months before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP seems to be in a tearing hurry to re-invent its main political narrative of communal polarisation. This seems to be more so as it...

The frenetic attempt made by former US President Donald Trump to dismiss with utter disdain his indictment by a federal grand jury on charges related to classified documents seized from his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago is not surprising. More than 300 classified documents were recovered during...

This month marks five years since the first arrests in the Bhima Koregaon case. A total of 16 people were arrested in the case, including one, Father Stan Swamy, who died in custody. Most of them remain in jail. None has been convicted in the...

Rail Bhawan currently is buzzing with activity. The loss of lives in the Balasore rail tragedy has come as a painful reminder that safety must remain the topmost priority. Authorities are looking into an electronic track management system that is suspected of failing and causing...

Truth is the worst casualty in the Russia-Ukraine war as it often happens during warfare on a large scale. But, this time it is in the interest of the global community that the truth is known about what is actually happening there as the world...