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Aj PrabalNational Herald |
The Lok Sabha functioned for 13 minutes on Thursday and the Rajya Sabha for 16 minutes. Both Houses were then adjourned for the day with the speaker...
Delhi, India’s capital, stands as a powerful emblem of history and modernity. However, today it is also infamous for a growing environmental crisis...
If I have a dispute with you, I can solve it in one of three ways. One is by talking (‘negotiation’). We engage, on the assumption that both sides...
It’s a long and lamentable catalogue of crime against humanity. It began with another horrific mass murder: the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima...
Are we witnessing the slow and steady Talibanisation of a society blinded by the tenets of Hindutva? What else could explain the increasing...
Does the name Khalid Saifi ring any bells? Unlikely. After all, he was just a social worker, one of those accused of plotting the riots in north-east...
As the Narendra Modi government credits itself for its breakthrough agreement with Beijing that has led to troop disengagement by both sides along the...
I was trained as an economist. For the tribe of economists, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country is a sacrosanct measure of national...
The BJP’s undying love for Muslims is no state secret, but in the Modi years, this community has been at the receiving end of some very special...
The American journalist Bob Woodward (famous for his reporting of the Watergate scandal) has been documenting US presidents since Bill Clinton....
Priyanka Gandhi’s Vadra’s entry into electoral politics is certainly a big moment for the Congress party, but it also bears significance for...
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath coined the slogan ‘batoge toh katoge (divided, you fall)' in August 2024 while referring to attacks on...
There are more than 532 million WhatsApp users in India (July 2022 figures), which is 40 per cent of the population. Most of them belong to some...
The original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago but the raw fear it then generated is back, with a new breed of monopolists having taken...
The United Nations Security Council has 15 members: 5 permanent and 10 elected. India has been a non-permanent member of the UNSC eight times, its...
The first rule of excavation is that when you find yourself in a hole, you should stop digging. It appears, however, that our venerable chief justice,...
A mini-general election will take place in November, with 9.63 crore voters in Maharashtra and 2.6 crore voters in Jharkhand eligible to cast their...
Let’s discuss this thing called ‘merit’. The British middle class is 60 per cent of the population. The working class, the set of people...
Too close to call’ is an overused cliché when it comes to predicting the outcome of elections, but with less than two weeks to go for polling day...
External affairs minister S. Jaishankar was unambiguous. India and China had agreed to a patrolling arrangement in Ladakh, he asserted. Both...
On 19 September 2024, Mahesh Langa, senior journalist with the Hindu, reported that the BJP’s membership drive in Gujarat was rife with fraudulent...
Over the years, numerous Supreme Court judgments have focused on the regulated use of public spaces for protests. These rulings have consistently...
The international 'rules-based order' is a euphemism for the jungle rule that defines global power politics. ’The strong do what they can and the...
The claim that the Taj Mahal was once a temple seems to resurface with metronomic regularity, never mind that there isn’t a scrap of evidence to...
The restraining influence of the so-called ‘balance of terror’ has all but disappeared in the Middle East. The region is teetering on the brink of...
These days, Mr D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, is talking of, and worrying about, the legacy he will leave behind when he retires from the...
Most pro-Indian commentators are far from amused at the US department of justice (DOJ) unsealing the charges against RAW (Research & Analysis Wing)...
Canada has detonated the diplomatic equivalent of a nuclear device. According to the Washington Post, Canadian officials claim they have evidence that...
The BJP’s decision to instal first-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma as chief minister last December despite his lack of political or administrative...
A new government has come to Jammu and Kashmir after its first election in 10 years, shifting some powers from the Union government's nominee...
Imprisoned for the last 10 years of his life, Prof. G.N. Saibaba was 90 per cent disabled and confined to a wheelchair when he was arrested....
The BJP’s startling victory this week in the Haryana assembly election is reminiscent of a similar stunt performed in the Madhya Pradesh assembly...
The Haryana assembly election results have perplexed psephologists, political analysts, journalists, YouTubers and the public alike. Not only because...
The surge of police encounters in Uttar Pradesh is borne out by a report in the Times of India (3 October 2024), which claimed that Gautam Buddh Nagar...
Many years ago, more years than I care to remember, I was posted as a probationer under district training in Mandi district of Himachal. On two days...
Union minister and officiating BJP president J.P. Nadda was parroting the usual party when he said West Bengal was reporting the highest number of...
If the bee’s knees of Ahmedabad — politicians, bureaucrats, real estate tycoons, building magnates and allied government beneficiaries — are to...
Fans of the prime minister — and there are many — sense a drift and a lack of purpose in this third term. In the new parliament building in...
At about this time last year, my elder son quit his very well-paying job as a senior executive in a multi-national: he had had enough of the El Dorado...
As tensions rise between Israel and Iran, the Middle East is once again at the precipice of a wider conflict. For India, this escalating...
Very few Indians read books. Even fewer read books published abroad. A handful of Indian scholars are requested by international publishers to review...
Former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who lost the recent Lok Sabha election from Thiruvananthapuram, declared a taxable income of just Rs 680...
Even as several thousand protestors assembled at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 31 January to demand elections through ballot papers, the Election...
Ordinarily, the inauguration of a temple would be a religious affair, but who said the Ram Temple is about religion? The BJP, VHP or the RSS cannot be...
The winter session of Parliament which kicks off on 4 December promises to be marked by ‘grand gestures’. One such is likely to be the passage of...