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The Ajit Pawar saga is laughable and also seems to be unending. After the Maharashtra state Assembly election in 2019, the BJP –Shiv Sena combine fell apart on the issue of who shall become the Chief Minister. At that time, Ajit Pawar took a dramatic...

National security has been described as the “ability of a state to cater for the protection and defence of its citizenry” and of a “country’s ability to protect itself from the threat of violence or attack.” To understand New India’s national security doctrine, one has...

The recent action by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against IAS officer Sanjeev Jaiswal, allegedly involved in the COVID jumbo centre scam, has sparked apprehension among many IAS officers in Maharashtra. This apprehension stems from the backdrop of several IAS and IPS officers being incarcerated over...

It may not be difficult to understand why some folks active on social media in India, owing allegiance to BJP have suddenly started attacking the 44th US President, addressing him as Hussain Obama, specifically pointing out that he is a Moslem. This group includes a...

Things unfolded in the most dramatic fashion with breathtaking speed in Russia during the past few days when Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russia’s mercenary force, Wagner, rebelled against President Vladimir Putin. The world was taken by surprise by the suddenness of the development and what...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa hit bull’s eye when he lashed out at the rich countries for their failure to deliver the promised $100 billion in annual climate finance by 2020. He was speaking at French President Emmanuel Macron’s just concluded summit for a new...

In 2019, energised by his terrific Lok Sabha win the Prime Minister set off a series of ideological reforms. The gutting of Article 370, the legislation of the citizenship law and the criminalisation of Muslim divorce. All these came from the Union and the BJP...

The appointment of Nitin Agarwal as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) comes at a crucial time, coinciding with the bi-annual four-day border talks between the BSF and its Bangladesh counterpart, the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), in Delhi. Those in the...

The much publicised US visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi beginning June 21 is supposedly about strengthening the two countries’ mutually beneficial economic, defence and strategic ties. Both Modi and US President Joe Biden are also poised to face their respective electorate soon. Getting re-elected...

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...