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Earlier this month, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, confirmed it will lay off 12,000 employees. For decades, companies such as TCS symbolised India’s prowess in IT-enabled services — a low-cost, high-scale model that rode the wave of globalisation. But that model is now under existential strain. The era of labour arbitrage … Read more

Stray dog control The stray dog population is evolving in the country. If this is not acted upon with concrete plans, the number of dogs may overwhelm the human population as there is no reliable head count as yet of stray dogs. The argument that animal welfare activists put forth, that curtailing the stray dog … Read more

‘India should leverage its technological advancements to become a supplier of fixed-wing UAVs for the broader Indo-Pacific region’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The world first noticed a massive shift in how wars are fought during the second Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (2020): the increasingly integral role that drones play. For India and Pakistan, Operation Sindoor (May … Read more

From having to deal with an inflation level higher than the RBI’s comfort band of 2%-6% just two years ago, the government is now in the relatively more comfortable space of inflation coming in lower than that band. July’s retail inflation of 1.55%, the lowest since June 2017, was made possible almost entirely by the … Read more

England’s Chris Woakes walks on to the field with his arm on a sling on the final day of the fifth Test against India on August 4, 2025 | Photo Credit: Action Images via Reuters Had England won the final Test at the Oval, it is possible that without facing a single delivery, their No. … Read more

Over the last few months, migrant workers from West Bengal have been detained in large numbers across India and asked to provide proof of their citizenship. From Odisha and Chhattisgarh in the east, to Maharashtra and Gujarat in the west, and to Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan in the north, thousands of migrant workers have been … Read more

Employees work at a garment factory in Tiruppur. File | Photo Credit: Reuters On July 1, 2025, the government approved the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme to support employment generation, with an outlay of ₹99,446 crore. However, this raises serious concerns about the target population in a labour market where capital-labour asymmetries, the formal-informal sector … Read more

It took 108 years after the Balfour Declaration, when the British first professed support for the establishment of a Jewish national home “in Palestine”, for London to even commit to recognising Palestinian statehood. Last month, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Britain would recognise the state of Palestine in September, unless Israel ended the … Read more

When decisions are based on the principle of natural justice, they serve a particular social purpose or aim to right a specific wrong. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization’s (NOTTO) recent advisory, stating that women patients and relatives of deceased donors awaiting transplants will get priority as beneficiaries, walks the path of rewriting a … Read more

Congress activists during a protest in Kolkata on August 12 to condemn alleged electoral malpractices and the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. | Photo Credit: AFP The Election Commission’s attempts to strength the credibility of India’s democratic process by means of an extensive revision of the electoral rolls has unfortunately devolved into yet another … Read more