Dhiraj Nayyar India has a complicated, love-hate relationship with its bureaucracy. Recently, two babus of the elite IAS were the subject of widespread public derision when an investigation by this newspaper revealed that one of them had ordered that a government stadium…
Arun Kumar Aryan Khan’s case reflects what is wrong in India’s system of justice. He was caught for allegedly being part of a nexus with international or national drug dealers. Much hype followed since he is the son of a…
Srikanth Kondapalli Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is a worried man these days. He is now at the forefront of the “people’s war” to counter the pandemic but also to restore the economy battered by Communist Party chief and Chinese President…
Manoj Misra Look at any land use map of the world, nation or a local area and invariably one of the categories in its index would be ‘wastelands’. According to records 20% of India’s landmass is categorised as ‘wastelands’. Often…
Tikender Singh Panwar “Only One Earth”; despite knowing it, assimilating it into the consciousness that we all, and that is humans, flora and fauna can coexist only, is still difficult to imbibe. “Only One Earth” is the theme for World…
Srikanth Kondapalli In a major development last week, the United States President Joseph R Biden announced the formation of a 13-member Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) a day before the Quad Leader’s in-person meeting at Tokyo on May 24.…