Above: The five Justices of the Supreme Court, who recused themselves from the Gautam Navalakha bail case, include Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justices NV Ramana, R Subhash Reddy, BR Gavai an...
By Dilip Bobb
There’s a bizarre connection between the two French-made frontline fighters in the Indian Air Force inventory—the Mirage 2000 and now the first Rafale multi-role fighter handed over t...
By Shobha John
Two plane crashes over the last week, one in Telangana and the other in Dhule in Maharashtra, have once again brought the focus on India’s flying schools. In the Telangana crash, a pil...
By Niti Singh
October 2, 2019 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Albert Einstein had said of the Mahatma: “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in ...
Above: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently announced corporate tax cuts/Photo: UNI
With most economic indicators on a downturn, the government needs to kick in a set of reforms that would ...
Above: A girl holds a placard during a protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua/Photo: UNI
In an astonishing endeavour, a court in Auraiya, UP, gave a judgment in a record nine ...
Above: A meeting of a parliamentary committee. These panels monitor government action/Photo: iihr.res.in
In order to ensure greater accountability of the government to Parliament, subject-based com...
Above Illustration: Amitava Sen
Is the centre’s move to set up foreign varsities an attempt to create a global secretariat class? Education is not treated as a culture of learning but as a way to q...
Above: Photo credit iyerandmahesh.com
By Shobha John
Delhi is synonymous with the regal and the ordinary, the old and the new, history and modernity, urban and rural....No other city in India c...
By Dilip Bobb
There’s a debate raging on twitter on whether Narendra Modi is the only Indian leader capable of attracting such huge crowds, as was witnessed in Houston on Sunday. The irreverent an...