The Supreme Court’s move on April 28, to examine obscenity regulations for OTT platforms and social media (in a PIL filed by Uday Mahurkar and others) is both urgent and necessary.
The April 22 terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam region, which claimed the lives of 26 Hindu tourists, marks a chilling escalation in the pattern of violence plaguing the Valley.
The new US-Ukraine minerals agreement, months in the making, marks a defining moment in the war’s third year ~ not just for Kyiv, but for Washington and its global standing.
India's governance stands at a defining moment. The civil services, once hailed as the steel frame of a new nation, were established to shape the nation’s progress with integrity and dedication.
Following the dastardly massacre of innocent Hindu tourists at Pahalgam, India swiftly declared that it will put the 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT), brokered by the World Bank, on abeyance.
In recent years, as Pakistan has hurtled from one catastrophe to another, remittances sent by Pakistani workers living abroad have been a source of some small amount of stability.
At our last meeting, a pleasantly rambling conversation at a café on Highbury Corner, Ian Jack and I had started talking about family histories and writing about them.
In view of the UGC Chairman’s latest announcement of a digital university to be set up in the coming academic session, it is time to mention that the spectre of Coronavirus haunted the policymakers of education.
The 2022 US midterm elections are just around the corner. The outcome of the election on November 8 is crucial for both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party because it will heavily influence the next presidential election in 2024.
Richard Nixon, who served as President Eisenhower’s Vice President, lost the 1960 US presidential election to John F. Kennedy and then the California Governorship to Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown in 1962. The post-election press conference was quite dramatic, a dejected Nixon even announced his complete withdrawal from politics.
