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The report presented by the Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice to Rajya Sabha on August 3 proposes that the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) should consider extending reservation benefits to transgender people in the Central Armed Police Forces. The proposed inclusion of transgender individuals in the armed forces has ignited a discussion regarding the preparedness of the Indian forces to integrate them.

The occurrence of recent disasters such as landslides, rains, cloudbursts, and the subsidence in Joshimath in the Himalayan States has highlighted the imperative of prioritising environmental preservation over development. However, there is an ongoing debate on whether environmental concerns be traded for development in Himalayan states?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging a stop to the prevalent 'revdi' culture, has brought the enduring practice of political populism into question. The ongoing discourse about the financial sustainability and societal significance of welfare programmes, regardless of their nomenclature such as subsidies, freebies, or revdi, has persisted for a substantial time.

In a recent statement delivered during the monsoon session of Parliament, Minister for Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, expounded upon the potential benefits of implementing simultaneous Parliament and Assembly elections

Can crime be communal or even political? In ‘India that is Bharat’ (as written in the Constitution of India), can a woman’s dignity be seen from the prism

A recent streak of state governors overstepping their authority has India debating if the post is even necessary. 

Of all the Indians aged 15 years and above, only 39.5% are even asking for a job. Among men, this proportion was 66% and among women, just 8.8%.

Housing finance company HDFC Ltd and private retail bank HDFC Bank are set to merge on July 1, creating a mega entity. How and why did the merger come about, and what will change after the two companies become one?

Broadly, time-based power tariff structures can be static -- predetermined tariffs based on time blocks -- or dynamic -- determined on a real-time basis in accordance with the actual demand conditions.

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