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The suspended Director of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), KS James is the most highly rated demographer in the country and among the leading ones in the world. So, naturally, his suspension has become the talk of Delhi’s babu corridors. The official reason...

Many disturbing questions arise out of the Supreme Court order granting bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in the Bhima Koregaon violence case in which several activists and lawyers were arrested in 2018 on the charge of being part of a Maoist conspiracy....

The colour of the oceans is changing to green from blue. In fact, over half of the world’s oceans – 56 per cent to be precise - have changed their colour in the past 20 years. The phenomenon is sending alarming signals to the scientific...

Israel is dangerously moving towards autocratic rule, the first step of which has been taken when the Knesset (Parliament) passed a law curtailing the power of Israel’s Supreme Court last week. The Opposition walked out of the 120-member House and the Bill got 64 votes...

The Union government is passing legislation to make Aadhaar compulsory for births and deaths. If the bill should become law, it will feed into the National Population Register. This in turn will revive the National Register of Citizens. The last time the government attempted this,...

Amidst murmurs of impending changes in the Central government, there are rumours about Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman being dropped from the Cabinet, though it seems unlikely given that the next budget is only a vote on account, in practical terms. Such ridiculous talk likely stems...

The famous blue bird – the iconic logo of Twitter for over a decade – has now been transformed into a stylised X which becomes the logo of the world-wide micro-blogging platform. It was a triumph of the platform that its logo has produced a...

Russia has hit back at the US-led West which has imposed tough sanctions on it for invading Ukraine in February 2022. This time, it has not used its war machine much. It has decided to cut off the food supply line, especially wheat, from Ukraine...

The common trait that binds Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chairperson of National Women’s Commission Rekha Sharma, a government appointee, together is their prolonged and intriguing silence on the barbarity going on in Manipur. It took a horrific video and the Supreme Court’s ultimatum that...

What is gained when I avoid acknowledging that I have a problem? And what, if anything, is lost? The Prime Minister conceded there was violence in Manipur after 79 days of pretending that there wasn’t. A video that was two months old and produced outrage...