On February 13, 2025, Article 356 of the Constitution was invoked in Manipur and the State came under President’s Rule. It made way for the President of India to take charge of all administrative and legislative functions of the State from Manipur’s Council of Ministers. The State Assembly, however, has not been dissolved but kept … Read more
The visit of the Qatari Amir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, a decade after his last visit to India, has led to a reaffirmation of the deep ties between two countries. While they do not always share the same worldview, both countries recognise each other’s importance on the regional and global stage. For Qatar, India … Read more
Appointing the CEC Apart from ensuring that there are three column headlines in newspapers, what the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi aims or achieves from his phrase, ‘midnight call/appointment of CEC’, is anybody’s guess. That he has been reacting to every move by the BJP/Modi government ever since he appeared in politics is known … Read more
The Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre has finally done the inevitable by imposing President’s Rule in Manipur on February 13, after dragging its feet for over 21 months, and four days after N. Biren Singh resigned as Chief Minister. The change in political gear stems not from the BJP’s first-order-of-preference, but as an … Read more
The influx of Myanmar refugees has generated diverse responses in India’s Northeastern States. Photo: Special Arrangement Northeast India has experienced prolonged spells of insurgency. However, over the past few decades, large parts of the region have remained free of insurgencies. This relative peace has allowed for the operationalisation of massive infrastructure projects. But, as the violence … Read more
‘Official estimates account only for those in registered relief camps, omitting unregistered individuals living with relatives, in temporary shelters, or displaced across multiple locations’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images The India-Myanmar borderlands remain a data-deficient region despite their long history of armed conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises. The complexity of the Manipur conflict, along with … Read more
The talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Riyadh, their first major diplomatic interaction since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, marks the beginning of a reset in ties between the two former Cold War adversaries. Led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the two sides agreed to … Read more
As the world’s most populous country, India hopes to reap its demographic dividend due to its burgeoning youth population. Demographers and policy planners always knew that this window of opportunity would remain open, but only for a limited time. Declining school enrolment over the past decade marks the beginning of the end of this period. … Read more
By withholding Tamil Nadu’s central share of Samagra Shiksha funds for rejecting the National Education Policy (NEP 2020), the Union Government is flexing its muscles to coerce States into submission. This move also undermines the intent of the Samagra Shiksha scheme (2018-19), which consolidated the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, and Teacher Education … Read more
Two years ago, on February, 6, 2023, the people of Türkiye and Syria were jolted out of their sleep. At least 17,000 were killed, with their numbers mounting within minutes, as a great earthquake shook those countries in the early hours after 4 a.m., at 7.8 on a scale of 0 to 10. A second … Read more