Politics

In this perceptive talk about “India@75, Constitution and Beyond”...

After the Maharashtra Cabinet granted CM Fadnavis sole authority to appoint the new SEC days ago, Dinesh Waghmare, a 1994-batch IAS officer, takes charge as SEC on January 21. Waghmare served as the Principal Secretary of Medical Education and Drugs department with additional charge of Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra and resigned only after this appointment, a development that raises serious questions of a conflict of interest: the SC in 2021 has held that SECs have to be "independent persons" not occupying a post under the Centre or state governments

The recent Supreme Court judgement brings to attention the attempts made by the Centre over the past few years to dilute the powers of the one law that has the power to hold the Government accountable

Such pre-numbered slips are a statutory, legal requirement, designed to record the total number of voters standing in the queue by the close of polling hour

Extremism did not appear out of nowhere. It is a treasured offspring of religious philosophy that is taught and studied at our madrasas and religious schools.

The deal will be implemented in three phases involving a permanent halt to fighting, a captives-for-prisoners swap in batches, IOF’s complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the return of displaced Palestinians from the south to the north.

Recently (31st December 2024) while inaugurating the Conference as a...

Wahhabism’s interpretations have been linked to global terrorism, misrepresenting Islam as a violent religion.

While bitter hostilities between Meiteis and Kukis have formed the larger narrative, with Kukis seen as a target, Arambai Tenggol’s acts of violence on the Pangals, a small Muslim minority, with the latest being the brute torture of a young man have remained in the dark underbelly of the violence in Manipur

As climate change intensifies and the inadequacy of the...