The 21st century is increasingly b eing described as the Indian Ocean Century. As the global economic centre of gravity shifts from the Atlantic to Asia, the vast maritime region stretching from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific has emerged as the world's busiest and most strategically important sea space.
When Home Minister Amit Shah directed the commission formed on “Demographic Change” to study the phenomenon in India’s borderlands, he did not speak in the cautious language of policy briefs.
The reopening of shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz may have calmed oil markets, but it would be a mistake to confuse the return of traffic with the return of certainty.
A file sits on a clerk’s desk. It is complete, stamped, in order ~ and it will not move. The applicant, a farmer or a small contractor or a widow chasing a pension, learns the unwritten tariff: a little cash to the right hand, and the file walks.
Data from the recently published National Family Health Survey 6 (NFHS 6) shows that India is moving away from being a young country.
The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call a national election for July 4 is a bold and risky manoeuvre, given the precarious position of his Conservative Party.
Kazi Nazrul Islam turns 125 today. He is not an old man though ~ rather pretty young, as his poems and songs even today look fresh, full of the robust radicalism and passionate love that characterise youth.
Vivekananda once wrote: “Religion is a question of fact, not of talk. We have to analyse our own souls and find what is there. We have to understand it and realize what is understood. That is religion.”
Elections in the Baramulla constituency in Kashmir during the fifth phase on Monday marked a significant milestone with a voter turnout exceeding 54 per cent, one and a half times the turnout recorded in Srinagar during the fourth phase on May 13.
Reports of delays, missing voter names, and inadequate facilities have highlighted systemic failures in the electoral process.
