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TOPIC – Overdue reviewIt is gratifying to note that the Supreme Court, while indicating its intention to reconsider the sedition provision in the IPC, has...
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TOPIC – Boosting confidenceThe downward trend in fresh coronavirus infections in India continues to inspire confidence that the pandemic is on the wane. The daily new...
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TOPIC – The lag between jabsThe Kerala High Court’s intervention regarding the time lag between the two doses of Covishield vaccine is both interesting and unusual. It...
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TOPIC – Positive climateIndia’s frontline position as third highest emitter of greenhouse gases has sharpened focus on its future policy course to mitigate carbon emissions under the...
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TOPIC – The lag between jabsThe Kerala High Court’s intervention regarding the time lag between the two doses of Covishield vaccine is both interesting and unusual. It...
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TOPIC – Trust deficitThe decision of India’s competition watchdog to order investigations into Google, following allegations by the country’s digital news publishers that it has...
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TOPIC – From fighters to rulersAfter postponing the announcement twice, Taliban spokesmen have said that they expect to have a new government in Afghanistan this...
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TOPIC – Talking amid conflictRelations between the world’s two biggest powers, the U.S. and China, have been in free fall over the past five years amid the...
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TOPIC – No clean sweepSeven years after launching his government’s marquee programmed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission Urban (SBMU)...
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TOPIC – Failing on foodThe approval of the PM POSHAN scheme by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs until 202526 comes at a critical time...
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TOPIC – Limits to accommodationThe RBI’s latest monetary policy statement and accompanying actions reflect the dilemma confronting monetary authorities. While the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to...
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TOPIC – Talking amid conflictRelations between the world’s two biggest powers, the U.S. and China, have been in free fall over the past five years amid the...
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TOPIC – Cutting the captainAmarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
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TOPIC – Beguiling baseThe latest sets of data on industrial output and retail inflation are beguilingly heartening, with the former showing a double-digit year-on-year increase in production,...
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TOPIC – A tragic loss
India has lost a capable and experienced military leader in the tragic death of the country’s first Chief of Defense Staff (CDS),...
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TOPIC – A time to introspectAt its first physical meeting during the pandemic, the GST Tax Council approved a flurry of changes. Concessional tax rates on vital...
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TOPIC – Jabbing childrenAs a milestone, the Subject Expert Committee’s (SEC) recommendation to the Drugs Controller to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for Covaxin among...
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TOPIC – False dichotomyThe Supreme Court has once again addressed the ‘merit versus reservation’ debate, a misleading binary that has engaged public and judicial discourse...
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TOPIC – Caught in the crossfireAn Indian fisherman was killed in firing by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) off the Gujarat coast on November...
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TOPIC – Pique and petulanceIn filing a quick appeal against the grant of statutory bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, the NIA has displayed nothing but pique and petulance over...
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TOPIC – Road to recoveryT he latest GDP and GVA estimates from the National Statistical Office have affirmed that the economy is now on the path to...
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TOPIC – Transition in perilThe resignation of Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has pushed the country, already battered by political instability, anti-military protests and violence, into...