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TK Arun The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is alive and kicking. So are the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, both birthed out of the feeble bodies of previous governments that had been blown up. Clearly, the anti-defection law…
Tikender Singh Panwar Ecological disasters such as Floods in Silchar, Assam; landslides in Manipur and more floods in the offing as the monsoon advances in the country; such would be the visible stories published in the media for at least two more…
Devender Singh The theme for World Population Day 2022 is “A world of 8 billion: Towards a resilient future for all – Harnessing opportunities and ensuring rights and choices for all”. It asks us to bear in mind that there…
Arun Kumar India’s goods and services tax (GST) regime was launched with much fanfare on July 1, 2017. It was marketed by many as the nation’s second ‘tryst with destiny’, a reform that would unify the country by creating a single…
Dhiraj Nayyar It is unlikely that many people, other than students of chemistry, have heard of scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium. Together, this group of 17 is…
Alok Bansal Reports emanating from Kabul, indicate that India has ‘reopened’ its embassy in Afghanistan, thereby becoming the 15th country to do so. The official statement has indicated that India has sent a ‘technical team’ which is going to be based…
Harsh V. Pant Even as leaders of the G7, a grouping of the world’s seven richest nations, were meeting in Germany, Russia was busy bombarding Ukraine in a show of strength. Just before the summit began, Moscow unleashed a series…