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This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather...

Last week, the Union Cabinet approved the national offshore wind energy policy. It is the first policy to govern the country’s budding offshore wind...

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is not a stranger to New Delhi and his three-day visit to India this week is seen as the turning of...

During his address on September 3-5, 2015 “Samvad”—Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative on Conflict Avoidance and Environment Consciousness, Prime...

Few could match the country’s central bank for institutional integrity, professional flair and calling a spade a spade. It is rather unfortunate that...

"A wailing mother jumped inside the grave and asked me to bury her along with her son, who was killed in the cross-fire, while on his way to school. I...

Fifty-eight countries (including 28 in the European Union) have submitted their intended actions to reduce emissions ahead of the Paris climate...

The Union government’s recent notification regularising the entry and stay of minorities from Bangladesh and Pakistan on humanitarian grounds (meaning...

The dust has settled on the outcome of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections. These polls for the past few years have been witnessing...

In August this year, when the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) released tiger mortality figures for the first eight months of the year,...

One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states. With terms like competitive and cooperative...

The extension of Sonia Gandhi’s term as Congress President by another year in her 17th year in the position is an admission of the party’s failure to...