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The Price of a Click
18 March 2026 11:25 PM ISTFrom UPI to e-commerce, India’s digital boom is increasingly shadowed by sophisticated cyber frauds exploiting gaps in awareness and enforcement
Death of Debates in Parliament?
25 Feb 2026 11:46 PM ISTPersistent disruptions and performative protests are eroding Parliament’s credibility, weakening democratic accountability and public trust in India’s...
Restoration or Privatisation?
6 Feb 2026 11:09 PM ISTForest Ministry’s new afforestation guidelines invite private players into forest lands, raising hard questions on biodiversity, livelihoods and...
Safeguards or Snares?
11 Sept 2025 11:50 PM ISTLaws meant to protect women, marginalised groups, and the vulnerable often end up misused, creating injustice. India needs safeguards against false...
Fury for the Folly
25 Aug 2025 10:28 PM ISTReckless construction, excessive tourism, and negligence that magnified the effects of Dharali disaster showcase how ecological ignorance and human...
Grim Manifestations
7 Aug 2025 8:31 PM ISTTrump’s mindless tariff against India may derail the strategic US-India relations, trigger higher inflation in America apart from affecting Indian...
Green Queens at Helm
1 Aug 2025 11:48 PM ISTThe move by the IFS to select an all-women leadership for forest conservation is trailblazing, and will facilitate green governance, gender justice,...
Revisiting ‘autonomy’
27 Feb 2023 6:18 PM ISTThe negative trend of converting the government’s forestry institutions into autonomous ones has unleashed great damage to them; there is a need for a...
Potent money spinner
31 Jan 2023 5:06 PM ISTPolicy intervention and inter-institutional collaborative research are required to capitalise on economically potent Red Sanders wood that is...
Canary in a coalmine?
23 Jan 2023 6:32 PM ISTJoshimath crisis has exposed the need for a climate-resilient development administration
Ending the fracas
7 Dec 2022 7:08 PM ISTThe government and the Supreme Court need to reconcile on the matter of introducing reforms in the process of appointing judges
Promising prospects
28 Nov 2022 10:15 PM ISTTripura's rubber industry presents an exemplary example of balancing economic and ecological development













