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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...

The obduracy of the government not to act immediately against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan, accused of committing sexual crimes, casts serious doubts on its fairness and probity in public life. As if to rub salt into injuries...

The Law Commission’s “considered” opinion that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to sedition laws should be retained is highly regressive and a complete letdown for the very concept of protection of free speech which is universally considered an integral part of...

A story was reported on 2 June with the headline “Bengal couple accused of being ‘Bangladeshi infiltrators’ freed from Bengaluru jail after 10 months.” The couple were Palash and Shukla Adhikari, who were accused of being foreigners. They spent an extra month in jail after...

For nearly two months, the position of Indian ambassador in Doha has remained unoccupied, leaving a big void in the diplomatic representation of India in Qatar. After the previous ambassador Dipak Mittal returned to India and joined the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the appointment of...

There is yet another film claiming “real life” story and yet another instance of falsification of facts to suit a particular narrative with obvious intent to serve the interests of a political party. The way a section of the country’s film industry is sacrificing the...

The BJP never tires of accusing the Congress and other Opposition parties of internationalising the Kashmir issue. But, the Centre has needlessly tried to do the same by organising the three-day-long G20 tourism working group meeting in Srinagar last week. The ostensible reason for taking...

The inauguration of the country’s new Parliament Building May 28 should have been an occasion for national celebration, but it got mired in ugly political bickering and a slugfest between the ruling BJP and an Opposition combine of 19 parties. For the unseemly turn of...

The problem of India’s Parliament is the quality of debate, the lack of time spent discussing important legislation, the absence of quality for the most part in speeches, the chaos and anarchy, the horse-trading and the disregarding of Opposition and minority opinion. A new building...