Visiting a district, decades later, opens up floodgates of memory. When I think of Kakinada, the district headquarters of the famous East Godavari district of undivided Andhra Pradesh, where I had served in 1979-81, certain images endure.
The appointment of former Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das as “Principal Secretary-2” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi marks a significant shift in governance strategy.
The escalating tussle between Tamil Nadu and the Union government over the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is not just a dispute over language policy ~ it is a deeper battle over state autonomy, cultural identity, and federal governance.
There is a popular joke about apples in the district of Murshidabad. A middle-aged father asked his ailing son whether he was gaining in strength each time the latter finished a slice of apple offered to him during his recovery from fever.
The Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG) was the first event on European soil for the new Donald Trump administration followed closely by the Munich Security Conference.
Public participation and engagement in policymaking around green hydrogen is equally important to ensure its diffusion especially in transportation sector.
As China expects to basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035, the share of agricultural laborers in the total workforce is expected to decline to about 6 percent.
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.
