K.T. Jaleel, Minister in the LDF government in Kerala, resigns after the State Lok Ayukta finds him guilty of ‘abuse of power’ and ‘nepotism’
Andhra Pradesh government order makes Chief Minister the final authority on performance appraisals of All India Services Officers posted in the State
Election Commission bars Mamata from campaigning for 24 hours, cites violations of model code, the IPC and the RPA; Mamata to sit in dharna in Kolkata
BMC launches a project to restore Khotachiwadi, Mumbai’s 200-year-old heritage enclave with colonial and Portuguese legacies
Faced with rapidly rising number of COVID-19 infections, Telangana government sends SOS to Centre for 30 lakh doses of vaccine
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy cancels visit to Tirupati for Lok Sabha byelection campaign as COVID cases increase
Hype and facts on free trade A report by UNCTAD emphasises that free trade benefits only a few, across and within ...
Borrowing history Education is witnessing an apparent replication of the ideas of the nationalist education ...
GST One more failure After one year of GST, the numbers suggest that the new tax is not just disappointing but ...
Pakistan: Who needs a crisis? Pakistan’s balance of payments crisis provides an arena for a proxy stand-off between the ...
Politics and the appropriation of history Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s “Vande Mataram” was the subject of controversy even in the ...
Another dressed-up Central scheme An assessment of the Modi government’s modified crop insurance scheme suggests that more ...
Empty promises The timing of the Modi government’s announcement of a hike in the minimum support prices ...
Graded or degraded? The MHRD’s rules and regulations for graded autonomy for universities locate autonomy in ...
Nervous neoliberals Across the world, big business attributes the loss of legitimacy of neoliberalism to ...
Elusive education policy Differences between the government and the Sangh Parivar over privatisation and ...
Dangers of falling rupee THE rupee, which has been sliding in value for some time now, depreciated sharply in ...
Walmart’s gamble MUCH of the writing on Walmart’s purchase of a dominant 77 per cent stake in Flipkart, ...
Confusion over MSP Speaking at the Krishi Unnati Mela 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly ...
Column India's telecom wars AS the shakeout in the Indian mobile telephony market continues, price wars are being ...
JNU An ethos under attack FOR more than two years now, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi has been in a ...
Threats to Constitution THE anticlimax would be hilarious if it was not preposterous. The rabble, which goes by ...
Economic Perspectives Window dressing the Budget THE tendency of the current government to misinform and conceal is well known. Yet its ...
Preoccupations Rising incomes, falling wages IT seems that everyone loves to talk about inequality, and how much they dislike it. From ...
Column Dressing up public banks for the market When the government presented its third supplementary demand for grants to the winter ...
Being Dalit, and a woman IN the political landscape of contemporary India, it is only too easy to find more reasons ...
The freedom and the right IN 18th century England, the book would have invited dire punitive action under the ...
Economic Perspectives The Airtel-Aadhaar fix DESPITE its clear violation of the law, telecom major Airtel appears to have been let off ...
Destruction of wetlands TO say that we are destroying our natural environment in India is only to state the ...
Perceptions and verdicts AS 2017 comes to a close in political disarray, there are signals that bode an ...
