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TOPIC – Risks and rewards
Following through on the Budget’s plan to monetize public assets in order to fund fresh capital expenditure on infrastructure, the...
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TOPIC – Income and quotas
The Supreme Court’s ruling that economic criterion alone cannot be used to classify a member of a Backward Class as...
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TOPIC – Outreach and overreach
Judicial intervention in response to the Union government’s flailing response to the health crisis has reached its apotheosis with the Supreme Court order forming a...
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TOPIC – Old and slow
Ever since Australia and England played the first-ever Test at Melbourne in March 1877, cricket’s longest format has constantly evolved. Timeless Tests were...
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TOPIC – In free fall
Lebanon, which has been battling multiple crises for the last couple of years, is on the brink of an economic collapse. The meltdown...
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TOPIC – A moral test
A year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres has criticised “the many examples...
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TOPIC – Pursuing post-poll truth
Political violence has long been a feature of West Bengal politics. Whether it is due to a sense of mass empowerment,...
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TOPIC – Optimistic assessment
Less than a fortnight after the RBI announced its latest monetary policy, a team of its officials has provided an optimistic assessment of the...
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TOPIC – Between word and intent
The disquiet over the absence of adequate debate or discussion in Parliament is quite widespread. Concerned citizens and sections of...
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TOPIC – Beating plastic pollution
The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic...
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TOPIC – Memories
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement, followed by a gazette notification, to mark August 14 as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” 74 years later has...
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TOPIC – Afghan tragedy
With the fall of Kandahar and Herat, Afghanistan’s second and third largest cities, to the Taliban, the war in the country appears...
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TOPIC – Eye in the sky
Anything that is related to space science, failure or success, is larger than life; for this is a new frontier...
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TOPIC – Building consent
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the largest organization of doctors in India, has demanded that the National Medical Commission (NMC)...
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TOPIC – Choppy waters
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the stage to address the UNSC on a debate on maritime security — the first Indian...
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TOPIC – Code red
The IPCC has issued arguably its strongest warning yet on impending catastrophe from unmitigated global warming caused by human activity, lending scientific credence to the argument...
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TOPIC – Golden arm
India took on a golden glow at Tokyo on Saturday as Neeraj Chopra hurled the javelin to fetch the country its first Olympics gold...
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TOPIC – Not always fair game
Good intentions do not always make for good legislation. The Tamil Nadu government’s effort to protect its youth from the...
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TOPIC – Tigray’s woes
When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to Tigray, the country’s northernmost region, in November 2020, he promised it would be...
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TOPIC – Circumscription
Police verification and security clearances for passport or government job applicants are a matter of routine in most parts of the country. In...
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TOPIC – Being Bommai
The new Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, has to reconcile several conflicting factors while appointing his Council of Ministers. His predecessor B.S. Yediyurappa...
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TOPIC – Long overdue
Reservation for students from Backward Classes in seats surrendered by States to an ‘All India Quota’ (AIQ) in medical colleges run by...
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