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The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) — with over 800 million beneficiaries — is the largest food security programme in the world....
A Kerala woman’s fight over cancer drug prices has raised a bigger question for India.
Here is a suggestion that prevents ‘capture by rules’. Can we design something that makes neutrality and fair play a matter of rational choice?
The Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority borrows from Bodoland and Darjeeling, but its success will depend on how much power, money and political...
The FNTA Bill 2026 creates a new autonomous body for Nagaland’s eastern districts. It is a political settlement more ambitious than the standard...
As the Centre tries to find a ‘permanent political solution’ to Gorkhaland, one must not lose sight of the fact that the Fifth and Sixth Schedules...
Amit Shah has set up a panel to work out a ‘permanent political solution’ to the Gorkha issue in Darjeeling. Where do such settlements leave the...
Fast-track courts are meant to be the exception. But when they are increasingly applied to categories of cases that have caused public outrage, it...
From Jharkhand to Rajasthan, even those in the constitutional positions of Public Service Commission chairpersons have succumbed to lucre, greed and...
The certainty of punishment is a bigger deterrent than the extent of punishment.
Like Keats, Byron, and Shelley, Shiv Kumar Batalvi died young— before insurgency had shaken Punjab to its roots.
The 2026 law reversing CAPF officers' Supreme Court victory fits into a long constitutional tradition stretching from the First Amendment and Shah...
Arunachal Pradesh’s demographic transformation has reopened old questions over the survival of indigenous communities and religious freedom.
In recent weeks, the new Suvendu Adhikari govt has expedited road, rail, and India-Bangladesh border fencing projects to strengthen the vulnerable...
Years of dwindling assembly hours and bureaucratic echo chambers cost Mamata Banerjee the state, opening the gates for a new BJP regime.
Between 1977 and 2011, West Bengal experienced a steady decline in its poverty rate. This was reflected in the increasing share of the Left Front’s...
The tragedy of the state is that it has lost its economic might with every successive regime. As of today, it contributes less than 6% of the national...
The might of the state has won through the SAMADHAN strategy, but now it must do what is right.
There are many unsung heroes of India's anti-Naxal victory. Home Ministry's SAMADHAN framework gained acceptance because of their efforts.
Three factors—political buy-in, collector’s office as a listening post, and non-interference in anti-insurgency operations—ensured the Dantewada...
I received a written message that Kanu Sanyal, the Naxal who wanted to present a ‘deputation’ to me. One was expecting a fiery encounter with an...
At long last, a new Rajya Sabha Bill seeks to establish a national commission to secure the rights and entitlements of women farmers.
Madras High Court has ordered strict compliance with Tamil Nadu's abolition of the 'orderly system'. In ending this colonial-era practice, southern...
The enhanced budget helps, but internal stock-taking and preliminary steps have to be taken before the tagline Sahkar Se Samriddhi—from co-operation...
The BJP would have a tough time balancing the interests of all its units—which seek a foothold both in the centre and the states.
This census will map both the numbers and the incomes of various caste groups. Thereby providing a basis for those who call to exclude the 'creamy...
To understand why 1971 became the basis for India's constituencies, one has to revisit the Malthusian fears that dominated development discourse.
Once the results of the first digital census start appearing, about 16 months from now, they will open a Pandora’s Box of multiple divides and...
In his bilateral talks with Ayub Khan, Lal Bahadur Shastri said while India had never accepted the two-nation theory, some elements in Pakistan were...
According to India, the war was started by Pakistan on 5 August. But for Pakistan, the date of commencement of the 1965 war was 3 September.
The Soviets paid great attention to protocol at the Tashkent talks. Arrangements for the two delegations were exactly the same. It was also backed by...
After the success of the farmers’ agitation, 14 unions came together to contest the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections under the Samyukta Samaj Morcha....
In his book, ‘Joint Farming X-rayed’, Chaudhary Charan Singh marshalled facts from the FAO, USDA, and independent newspapers to show that...
After the illegal detention of Prema Wangjom Thongdok at Shanghai airport, China once again fell back on a deliberate playbook it has used for...
Every piece of legislation should have an inbuilt date of review to ensure that changes are made by design, rather than by default or to score...
It wasn't the negotiations with Naga rebel leaders that marked the turning point for the state. It was the establishment of the Department of...
The Wakhan Corridor, located in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, borders PoJK, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and China’s Xinjiang — once linking these...
Uttarakhand has the technology, funds, and administrative capacity to become the first zero-poverty state in India, thus fulfilling the first two...
1965 war mattered more than it’s given credit for. Especially Pakistan’s mistakes.
After a hiatus of three decades, India-China border trade was resumed through Lipulekh pass in 1992. But the volumes were nowhere close to the earlier...
As the discussions in the centre progressed, it became clear that the establishment of a border force was not just a response to immediate threats but...
While the CBI has built its reputation as a premier crime investigation agency by cracking high profile cases, many other cases have remained...
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