Abdullah vs Hari Singh holiday row hits J&K House, highway curbs add to tensionsJammu and Kashmir Assembly witnessed protests after NC MLA Abdul Majid Larmi demanded restoration of public holidays marking Sheikh Mohamma...
23 Sep, 2026, 09.05 AM IST
Yasin Malik decides to divorce his Pakistani wife Mushaal Malik, requests capital punishment in Sarla Bhat murder case without contestMalik, who is lodged in Tihar jail of Delhi since 2019, has made the latest submissions before the court of additional sessions judge (TADA...
02 Sep, 2026, 05.22 PM IST
Agnipath reforms: Why Agniveers need longer service, higher retention and better career prospectsThe Agniveer scheme, initiated in 2022, is under scrutiny as discussions continue about its framework. As the government assesses input fro...
24 Aug, 2026, 10.57 PM IST
DC tunes into desi protest musicUS officials remain silent on Indian local issues, focusing on internal political challenges. In India, meanwhile, protesters demonstrated ...
28 Jul, 2026, 11.34 PM IST
Gen Z gets into pest control: NEET protests cut across identity lines, and bypass mainstream media’s ‘manufactured consent’A spontaneous protest movement dubbed the “Cockroach Janta Party” emerged from an offhand remark by CJI Surya Kant, showing how a single wo...
23 Jul, 2026, 11.14 PM IST
X marks a spot for content-blockers: Why Elon Musk’s platform is taking GoI to courtKarnataka High Court will hear a case involving X (formerly Twitter) alleging the Government of India is misusing Section 79 of the IT Act ...
26 Mar, 2025, 01.05 AM IST
Delhi's transformation: From chaos to clean streets & smart solutionsWith the recent political stability, Delhi's transformation must prioritize fundamental urban needs such as safe roads, clean environment, ...
09 Feb, 2025, 11.11 PM IST
Get a fix on how we fill our prisonsIndia's overcrowded prisons, with occupancy exceeding 130%, are seeing a glimmer of relief. The government plans to release prisoners convi...
20 Nov, 2024, 11.07 PM IST
Farmer protests: Serious demands to modernise Indian agriculture are woefully missingFarmers in India, as in other parts of the world, are politically very powerful. Unions representing farmers in northern India have been em...
15 Feb, 2024, 11.59 PM IST
Full-time means fully committedGoI's decision, in response to two cases of short-term employees leaking sensitive information, to not give temporary employees access to c...
01 Aug, 2023, 10.43 PM IST
How GoI, BJP and non-BJP states are recklessly competing on freebiesState governments cannot spend beyond a limit. They have not controlled deficits by cutting down non-merit subsidies. Rather, they keep ann...
28 Jul, 2022, 11.04 PM IST
Drugs, medical devices & cosmetics bill 2022: A law whose date has expiredIndia is yet to move away from understanding drug regulation as purely a manufacturing issue to a public health one. Technically, the quali...
24 Jul, 2022, 11.55 PM IST
The case for Agnipath: Not just army, extend it to civil services tooFor a country that needs to desperately balance its defence requirements with its balance sheet, Agnipath is a timely intervention.
19 Jun, 2022, 11.21 PM IST
Serving the hub and the spokesThrough what prism should we see reforms in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre rules? Should primacy be given to localism, or to...
25 Jan, 2022, 09.59 AM IST
View: The withdrawal of retrospective tax is a win for pragmatismIt should be noted that forgoing the tax claim on Vodafone will bring no direct relief to Vodafone Idea (Vi). Its financial troubles need t...
05 Aug, 2021, 11.35 PM IST
WhatsApp vs govt: Is India really open for business?The prescription of a content code for streaming sites and news portals is legally dubious. GoI has no authority granted to it by Parliamen...
28 May, 2021, 11.22 PM IST
View: When platforms like Twitter shift from ‘intermediary’ to behave like ‘editors'During the US presidential elections last year, Twitter had labelled many Donald Trump tweets ‘manipulated’, before taking down the former ...
26 May, 2021, 11.51 PM IST