Don’t believe a word of Trump’s baloney
There he was, sitting next to PM Narendra Modi, gnashing his teeth and lying through them.
There he was, sitting next to PM Narendra Modi, gnashing his teeth and lying through them.
When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.
The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.
At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.
India has its own long and bitter experience of this asymmetry, and Jammu and Kashmir is its sharpest instance.
Some overlap in the functions of the three branches is unavoidable; good governance sometimes requires that an executive body exercises some basic legislative and judicial functions also.
The last time that PM Modi had made a similar announcement was post the successful conduct of the anti-satellite (ASAT) test on 27 March 2019, termed as Mission Shakti. He had then stated “With this, India has entered its name as an elite space power.”
The transition away from fossil fuels, though not immediate or drastic, marks a turning point in climate negotiations. As we look back on the past 50 years, it becomes evident that the trajectory of our energy consumption is unsustainable.
In the midst of a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, India has witnessed an unprecedented surge in retail investors flocking to the stock market.
Long before the Salt Satyagraha was launched by Mahatma Gandhi from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on 12 March 1930, there were popular uprisings, hunger-strikes in jails, workers' strikes and public processions denouncing the ruthless colonial rule subjugating the country.
