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Delhi’s cheap power always a myth

Delhi’s cheap electricity was never truly cheap. It was deferred. For years, power tariffs remained largely unchanged even as the real cost of generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity steadily increased.

United States President Donald Trump US Supreme Court global tariffs. (File Photo: IANS)

Where Trump went wrong

The ceasefire in Iran is likely to end shortly, resulting in either renewed attacks or a peace deal, details of which could emerge soon. US President Donald Trump’s major blunder was assuming tactical superiority would enable strategic victory.

Foreign Funding Oversight Bill to tighten NGO regulations introduced in Lok Sabha

Power Timing

The debate over expanding the Lok Sabha and state assemblies has largely been framed in terms of numbers ~ how many seats, which states gain more than others, and whether India needs more Members of Parliament. But that focus risks missing a deeper institutional shift.

West Bengal SIR: SC directs ECI to publish 1.25 crore names excluded due to ‘logical discrepancies’. File image of the Supreme Court (Photo: IANS)

Paying the price

In the run-up to polling in West Bengal, a constitutional paradox has quietly taken shape, one that exposes the limits of legal remedies when they collide with electoral time.

Empowered to deliver

India’s policy imagination consistently outstrips its capacity to deliver. From flagship welfare schemes to ambitious infrastructure programmes, the country designs transformative policy with striking regularity and then watches much of it lose fidelity between the drafting table and the last mile.