As India marches ahead, the ground lost as regards social sector improvements due to the pandemic has largely been recouped, powered by prompt policy making and efficient implementation interwoven with technology, the survey...
The future of Indian federalism rests on how contradictions created by new distributive pressures and political delimitation are negotiated.
"Though the law requires that a person be produced in court within 24 hours of being picked up by police, our party executives are being whisked away by the police under the pretext of inquiry and nothing is known about...
MDM menu cannot be allowed to be determined by political parties operating on myopic interests instead of food and nutrition scientists
An overt centralisation of power is choking India’s federal structure. The remedy lies in redoing the political landscape.
As part of the 'Azaadi ka Amrut Mahotsav' celebrations, the good governance week is being celebrated from December 20-25.
Behind the record sales of Parle-G during the pandemic is India’s murky reality—lack of safety net and food security
Union Minister Anurag Thakur said the Production-linked Incentive scheme would provide employment to over 7.6 lakh people
A ban on cycles from major Calcutta streets endangers livelihoods and channels of urban economy. It represents a warped idea of planning and an antipathy...
State government ensures kin of armed personnel killed in the line of duty land good jobs
Did the Modi government suppress facts leading to the second wave just as officials did during Mao’s regime and police did in the case of the Willam Burke...
The office of the Engineer-in-Chief in Odisha had a strange order: all lady officials should leave the office premises by 5.30 pm on all working days. Is the...
Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar talks about the government’s position on the ongoing famers' agitation and the new farm bills
MSP has long ceased to be an enabler for farmers. It is more of a political tool to garner votes. And this trend started well before Modi.
NH44…London, Sydney, California. The farm protests of 2020 are far more inclusive, pan-India, even global—than those of the 1940s and ’80s. Only...
The Centre underestimated farmers’ grievances and is unwilling to climb down and lose face. Its only hope is a chink in the impregnable phalanx of the...
Opening up J&K’s land to ‘outsiders’ is touted to be a pro-development measure, but restrictions continue in many other states, including BJP-ruled...
Make in India, or Make for India? The potential for both vitality and confusion mark Aatma Nirbhar Bharat—a salad bowl of many healthy ideas, some of them...
Laws exist to protect women from sexual harassment at the workplace. However, no laws make the process of migration to the workplace safer for women leading to...
It’s raining projects in Bihar ahead of three-phase assembly elections
Aatma Nirbhar is Swadeshi Plus…and the Covid crisis is an opportunity, writes Naveen Jindal. But challenges remain: of 1,000 companies planning to exit...
The new contract farming law doesn’t adequately protect farmers, and the new Essential Commodities Act is a windfall for speculators—but the fear on APMCs...
Something in Indian agriculture is being set free. But is it the farmer?
Why is Punjab seething at the farm bill? The state earns Rs 4,000 crore on trading fees at the mandis, and some 40,000 commission agents make Rs 1,600 crore....
Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav talks to Jyotika Sood about why farmers are angry and the new agriculture laws
