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Citizen’s Burden
Citizen’s Burden

When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.

War and Consent

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.

War and Consent
Plutocracy gone crazy

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.

Plutocracy gone crazy
Statesman Talk
India
Latest from Bengal
Statesman Special
‘Illegal buildings will go’
‘Illegal buildings will go’

Pravesh Wahi is the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and is recognised as an experienced public representative and administrator in Delhi's local governance system.

Postcard from Budapest

There are few rivers in the world that define a city as completely as the Danube defines Budapest.

Postcard from Budapest
World
Business
Adani to invest Rs 20,000 crore to develop airport cities across 5 States in India
Adani to invest Rs 20,000 crore to develop airport cities across 5 States in India

Adani Airport City Limited (AACL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), has officially announced that it will develop integrated airport cities across its airport network, bringing together hospitality, retail, entertainment, convention and commercial infrastructure within seamlessly connected, walkable urban districts.

Micron briefly surpasses Meta and Tesla in market value

Micron Technology briefly overtook Meta Platforms and Tesla by market capitalisation on Thursday after the US memory-chip maker delivered stronger-than-expected quarterly guidance, reinforcing investor confidence in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure boom and soaring demand for memory chips.

Micron briefly surpasses Meta and Tesla in market value
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Education
School textbook blunder row: Odisha govt cracks whips on 10 SCERT officials

The Odisha government on Friday suspended four senior officials of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), including its former Director, and initiated disciplinary proceedings against six others after a high-level inquiry held them accountable for glaring errors in school textbooks prescribed for the current academic session.

School textbook blunder row: Odisha govt cracks whips on 10 SCERT officials
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