For India’s youth, distant wars have become psychological choke points. They deepen anxiety in an already jittery job market. The two-week ceasefire announced by the United States and Iran has been widely welcomed. However, given the massive trust deficit between the warring sides in West Asia -- the US and Israel on one side, and Iran on the other -- the ominous shadow ling...

It is a welcome development that ties with Bangladesh are being rapidly reset since the government of Tarique Rahman took over from an interim administration that was totally inimical to regional cooperation in a mutually beneficial relationship. The resumption of the process of issuing visas by India, to be fast tracked for Bangladeshis visiting for business or medical reas...

The Election Commission’s decision to go ahead with the publication of the final list of electors in West Bengal keeping about 27 lakh more voters out of the list of names “under adjudication” resulting in the shrinking of the original 7.66 crore-strong original roll by about 12 per cent in a hurri...

At what point does a staffing shortage become a governance failure? Madhya Pradesh may have already crossed that line. The state is short of over 150 IAS officers against its sanctioned strength. By all appearances, that’s not a marginal gap but a systemic deficit. Strip out deputations and election duties, and the administrative bench looks even thinner. The result is one b...

The government is considering increasing the strength of MPs in the Lok Sabha from 543 to 816. The ostensible reason is that India’s population has increased since the last expansion in 1971, so representation suffers. A more tactical reason is that the government wants to implement the Women’s Representation Act 2023, which reserves one-third of seats for women in Parliamen...