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Covid-19 vaccines have been a powerful tool in addressing the fear and panic caused by the pandemic. Unfortunately, they are increasingly being used to create a smokescreen of safety, to evade public accountability on the public health concerns around them. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), the apex regulator for all pharmaceuticals, has been used to hurriedly

The High Court of Karnataka has delivered a judgement in Resham vs State of Karnataka that is singularly lacking in empathy. The petitioners before the court included the young Muslim women from a government PU college in Udupi who had been arbitrarily shut out of their own college by their own teachers in a video witnessed by people around the world.

More than 75 years ago, not a long period in historical terms, the Indian National Congress was the symbol of India’s hard-fought struggle for Independence and of national pride, prestige and aspirations. The Congress party ruled the country for decades thereafter without much opposition and managed to keep the country on a progressive trajectory, however slow and bumpy.

Sacking one of his Generals for losing a crucial battle in the civil war out of sheer stupidity when it seemed victory was almost assured, Abraham Lincoln reportedly said, “He has managed to wring one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.”

Sacking one of his Generals for losing a crucial battle in the civil war out of sheer stupidity when it seemed victory was almost assured, Abraham Lincoln reportedly said, “He has managed to wring one last spectacular defeat from the jaws of victory.”

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia may not end abruptly, though diplomatic and economic sanctions are being strongly applied. The sanctions are working as major Russian business sectors find themselves severely affected. The sanctions have been applied with a great deal of precision and sophistication, much more than those that were applied on Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran

The national political narrative will go even more firmly into the hands of the BJP, and PM Modi will control it unchallenged

The slide had started in 1998, with the nuclear tests in Pokhran that got several countries very upset and led to, among other things, a decline in foreign investment in India. A country that was all set to take off, having liberalised earlier in the decade and stabilised its economic fundamentals, was suddenly left struggling for investment that is important at the take-off

Future historians who study Russian, Ukrainian and Western archives on the history of the Ukraine conflict will probably conclude that misunderstanding, mutual distrust and underestimation of the seriousness of intentions led to it.

Russian President Putin finally attacked Ukraine, which was expected, on February 24. Again, as expected, the OECD countries, led by the US and EU, have imposed financial sanctions. But there has been no direct involvement in terms of sending their militaries to support Ukraine.