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The recent case involving K Srinivasan, a 2005-batch IAS officer, in Jharkhand, has evoked a lot of interest in babu circles. The state government has issued four show-cause notices to Srinivasan for “tampering with the contents” of a Cabinet note twice, which is a serious...

The great political irony of the war between Ukraine and Russia is that Ukraine’s hope for getting membership of NATO, which ostensibly caused the Russian invasion, has turned out to be illusory, a mirage. The cruellest part of Ukraine’s desperate attempt to be brought under...

The deafening silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the half-hearted, partisan approach of his government towards the ethnic violence in Manipur, over the past two months, are responsible for the apparently uncalled for resolution of the European Union Parliament urging the Centre to “take...

Three weeks after a state visit to Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed a visit to Paris 14 July. It would be wrong to term the PM’s hurricane foreign tours as international recognition of Modi’s diplomacy as his party, the BJP, has been trying to...

In the dozen years between 1957 and 1969, the Americans and the Russians went on a series of space races. The Russians won almost everything at first. They were to first to send a satellite into orbit (Sputnik in 1957), the first to send a...

The severe shortage of capable babus in Himachal Pradesh is exacerbated by the state government’s seeming reluctance to act on the issue. Observers note that with a shortfall of 35 IAS officers out of the total cadre of 153 and five senior bureaucrats due for...

The truce brokered by the Congress high command between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot looks like an ominous development for the BJP. It comes at a time when the ruling BJP is merrily going ahead with its 2024 Lok...

It cannot be a coincidence that the lower court that had convicted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for defamation and the High Court single-judge Bench that subsequently refused to suspend the lower court’s order of his conviction are located in Gujarat. The most astounding aspect of...

The fact that a pro-Khalistan protest outside the Indian High Commission in London 8 July passed off without incident and there are no reports of any trouble by Khalistani activists from Canada, the US or Australia on the same day, as had been feared, are...

Since we have entered the phase of Kartavyakal it may be instructive to see what happened in Amritkal. In 2017, NITI Aayog began putting together a five-year plan based on a call given by the Prime Minister. In August that year, Narendra Modi had pledged...