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No one suggests Punjab should hide genuine gains in canal rehabilitation. But there is a difference between reporting gradual improvement and...
Trade language can feel like sleight of hand to those who live with its consequences. But it would be a serious mistake to allow ill-informed...
The Budget's measure is as much about anchoring hard assets and Indian ownership as it is about welcoming foreign clouds.
Deterrence cannot mean institutional licence for an endlessly extensible raid. A search that extends across days, followed by seals and freezes that...
As the 2026 cadre policy determines allocations for 25 state cadres, parallel state bureaucracies operate under different rules with no all-India...
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the...
The Supreme Court must settle who the gatekeeper is, how Centre-state routing will work, and where the limits of ‘official duty’ protection lie.
The episode forces an uncomfortable but constitutionally routine point into the open: Hindus are a minority in J&K. Their protection is territorial,...
In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, there were 1,19,374 registered overseas electors on the rolls. However, only 2,958 actually voted. Kerala alone...
We need to accept two truths simultaneously: that gig work is real income for millions, and that it is also a real risk.
If women’s participation expands while party ecosystems remain exempt from enforceable anti-harassment duties, we will be inviting new entrants into...
If we stop at the satisfaction of having forced a retreat, we will have won a news cycle and lost the landscape.
A “technical” redefinition of terms can become a loophole. Lower hillocks and connecting formations—often ecologically crucial—risk being...
From RLEGP to MGNREGA to VB–G RAM G, India’s rural jobs programme has shifted in purpose, design and constitutional meaning.
Apart from questioning IndiGo, this is the moment to ask why policy and regulation allowed one business model to hold regulators, passengers and the...
Compulsion magnifies the risk of function creep. Future updates could quietly expand the app’s capabilities or enable background telemetry far...
Event commemorations, temple inaugurations, and multi-faith parades can coexist with the strict protection of every citizen’s right to belief and...
The party should sit down with like-minded regional forces and draw up a 5-10-year framework, and not 5-10-month seat bargains.
Digital sovereignty cannot stop at government cloud systems. It must extend to the networking, CDN, AI, and security layers permeating the entire...
The draft Seeds Bill gets the big ideas right: universal registration, traceability, real penalties. To work for Punjab, it must get federal plumbing...
The electorate reaffirmed SAD (Badal) as the genuine Akali Dal—not by awarding it the seat, but by positioning it where it matters in a Panthic...
Behind celebratory headlines for Zoho lies a history we cannot ignore. The company’s ManageEngine products have been repeatedly exploited, often by...
We select individuals capable of becoming Formula One drivers. Then we give them rickety Maruti 800s on potholed roads and expect championship lap...
PM Modi’s silence on Punjab floods while he tweets about earthquakes in Afghanistan and floods in Pakistan was deafening. A phone call to CM Mann...
Pakistan’s Khalistan propaganda crumbles as Adampur lies, ISPR claims, and Pannun’s rhetoric are debunked by facts on the ground.
The colossal dams on the Indus rivers won't rise overnight. But India now possesses the will, the foreign-exchange reserves, and the engineering...