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Reconstructing past events and deeds, in other words, rewriting history is not an easy task. It is fraught with risks. The danger that the task poses is misrepresentation and misinterpretation of facts that distort the truth and give a coloured vision of what happened in...

India has much to learn from the current Taiwan scenario. The manner in which China is moving in matters related to that island nation is also indicative of its intent. It is quite possible that, instead of getting into a full scale war like Russia...

The Future of Life Institute’s open letter demanding a six-month precautionary pause on artificial-intelligence development has already been signed by thousands of high-profile figures, including Elon Musk. The signatories worry that AI labs are “locked in an out-of-control race” to develop and deploy increasingly powerful...

On 6 April 2023, the Union government passed new rules, allowing it to identify what it thought was any fake or false or misleading content online related to the government. This would be done by a “fact check unit” set up by the government which...

Lateral entry was a much-awaited administrative reform introduced in 2018 as part of Modi sarkar’s larger civil service reform agenda. The noble aim was to bring fresh perspectives, expertise, and efficiency into the government system. The bold experiment is now being seen as losing its...

In an unprecedented case in US history, former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York on charges including hush-money paid to a porn film actor Stormy Daniels in 2016 shortly before the presidential election. That gives a new twist...

Ideologies usually have an end-state or a desired place they want to arrive at. Marxists think the State will vanish and the community will replace it. In South Asia, an attempt was made to make mankind spiritually aligned to modernity through the State. This is...

The Department of Personnel and Training’s (DoPT) decision to invite retired IAS officers to investigate allegations against serving IAS officers comes at a time when corruption charges and other violations of service rules have been on the rise among the country’s babus. With its eyes...

Last week, the International Criminal Court indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, alleging that he is responsible for the forceful removal of Ukrainian children to Russia. This means that the ICC’s 123 member states now have an obligation to arrest Putin if given...

The shotgun wedding of UBS and Credit Suisse was hastily arranged in the spirit of ensuring our collective safety. As Swiss National Bank Chair Thomas Jordan noted, Credit Suisse’s size and global network makes it “a global systemically important bank,” and having UBS take it...