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Democratic governance put to a stiff test

21 Dec 2020

The Judiciary joined the Executive last week in the effort to get farmers out of the highways leading to New Delhi. Farmers from neighbouring states, protesting against three laws enacted...

India readies for COVID-19 vaccine drive

14 Dec 2020

India has made plans to launch the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination programme. The pandemic, raging worldwide since early this year, has so far afflicted more than 72 million people...

A new low in human rights standards

07 Dec 2020

As another Human Rights Day approaches, the scene in India is distressing. It was on December 10, 1948, that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of...

Time of reckoning after hasty farm sector reforms

30 Nov 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government pushed through Parliament last September a set of three legislative measures, projected as the biggest farm sector reform in India’s history. Two months later...

India cannot withdraw from global marketplace

23 Nov 2020

When the European Common Market was established in 1957 some in the east started dreaming of something similar taking shape in Asia. More than six decades have elapsed since...

Modi juggernaut beats opposition threat

16 Nov 2020

The Narendra Modi administration’s performance maybe lacklustre but the Prime Minister and his Bharatiya Janata Party have reasons to be pleased with their electoral performance. In the recent Assembly...

Likely Chief Justice of India under a cloud

09 Nov 2020

A month ago a State Chief Minister wrote to the Chief Justice of India, Justice SA Bobde, levelling serious allegations of impropriety against his likely successor. So far there has...

Search for democratic space in Kashmir

02 Nov 2020

Seven political parties, which were part of the democratic process in Jammu and Kashmir for years, have come together to work for restoration of its statehood and special status in...

More warning signals on failing environment

26 Oct 2020

President Donald Trump unwittingly drew the world’s attention to India’s poor air quality in his last election debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden. “Look at India, its air is filthy,”...

Plan to raise marriage age for Indian women

19 Oct 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is about to take a bold step that may annoy his hard-core supporters but will help India move towards gender parity. The issue relates...

BRP Bhaskar

Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.

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