Constitution Day, celebrated on November 26, holds immense significance in India and beyond not only because it marks the historical event of the adoption of the country’s Constitution but also because the text of the “highest law of the land” resonates with our quotidian aspiration and further encourages continuous negotiation in the public sphere for reshaping India’s governance framework.
Bangladesh’s economic downgrade by credit rating agency Moody’s from B1 to B2 signals a troubling convergence of political instability and economic fragility.
The conviction of two individuals involved in a human smuggling operation that led to the deaths of an Indian family at the US-Canada border in January 2022 underscores the devastating toll of illegal migration networks.
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), published by the WHO, indoor air pollution is the second largest killer in India after blood pressure, claiming two lives every minute.
From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws. Just a few months ago a ban on Afghan women speaking in public was the latest measure introduced by the Taliban, who took back control of the country in 2021.
Cross-party unity and civil society support is vital as India prepares to defend its territorial integrity from an expansionist, hegemony-seeking China.
More humiliatingly for Team Biden, their encouragement of the US President’s West Asia visit was in large part an effort to ease gasoline costs at home by getting the Saudis to increase oil production.
All Governments, even the present one, are lacking on this score; nothing much has been heard about the much-vaunted Mission Karamyogi, launched a couple of years ago.
The ICJ decision really is a huge step towards an overdue reckoning with the Myanmar military's atrocities against the Rohingyas.
While I am used to seeing CRPF men in their camouflage uniform all along the roads, I do not expect them to be inside the inner sanctum of the temple.
