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Though the shortage is real, the right solution is not to coerce the states to surrender a large number of their officers to the Centre. Unfortunately, IAS officers working for their entire career in the states hardly come across people who can inspire them either ethically or intellectually. They are surrounded by politicians, traders and […]
On January 12, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in a letter to the chief secretaries of all state governments, set out a ‘Proposal for Amendments in IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954’, saying that an officer whom the Union government wishes to put on deputation would “stand relieved” from his or her respective cadre, irrespective […]
Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to field chief minister Adityanath from his home turf, the assembly constituency of Gorakhpur in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls has spurred every opposition party into action as they scramble to field their most influential candidates from the area. Gorakhpur has been a BJP stronghold since 1989 with the party winning the seat […]
The Delhi high court on January 11 decided to hear petitions challenging Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his wife from the offence of rape, or provides a sort of “marital rape immunity” to men. It said that irrespective of marital status, every woman has the […]
A top university system in the United States announced that they will add ‘caste’ as a protected category, a move that has been welcomed by several rights groups fighting against caste-based discrimination in the country. California State University System, which has over 23 campuses and eight off-campus centres enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and […]
In a strange turn of events, the Gujarat state government informed the Supreme Court on January 16 that it has approved 68,370 claims for ex gratia for COVID-19 victims – while the state’s official cumulative death toll was only 10,094 until then. According to Times of India, the state wrote in its compliance report for the apex court […]
Even as the Samajwadi Party was caught in a family feud ahead of the 2017 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, with party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav on one end and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on the other, Aparna Yadav, Mulayam’s second daughter-in-law, had drawn attention. As Akhilesh was pulling […]
No project of citizenship in India can be complete without an institutionalised ethic of civility. To this effect, the project of Swachh Bharat was an important step in building toilets to provide basic sanitary facilities and also a stepping stone to the idea of a dignified life. Access to cleanliness is a necessary mode of […]
‘Yeh desh hai veer jawano ka…’ echoed on the cordoned-off streets of Rajpath as masked policemen guarding the barricades stared at anyone who passed by until they left. The yesteryear song from Naya Daur infused the dewy January wind with an instant sense of patriotism. It overshadowed the cacophony on both sides of the barricades: running traffic […]
An eye-catching exhibition for all the painting lovers is all set to go on floors today at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara. The details are as mentioned below check these out. Pahat: The Show is to be inaugurated by Shri Shibu Natesan (Chief Guest). Faculty of Fine Arts, Department Of Graphic Arts, it is […]
On January 1, 2022, while the rest of India was either forwarding New Year greetings to friends and family on WhatsApp groups or recuperating from the celebrations of the previous day, Muslim women in India were battling with themselves and with the world outside on how to address the threat, trauma and indignity that they […]
New Delhi: Nepal’s ruling party, Nepali Congress, has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his announcement on road expansion across the Lipulekh area, which the Himalayan state also claims as its own. During an election rally on December 30 in Uttarakhand, Modi had said that his government has “built the road up to Lipulekh and it […]
I had never met Kamal Khan of NDTV India, yet I mourn his sudden passing as a deep personal loss. In these unscrupulously fallen times when news reporting has come to be a coloured, raucous and expedient nuisance, Khan clearly saw his vocation as a sacred trust bestowed upon him by the fundamental values of […]
The government has put on hold the letter of intent for privatisation of the Central Electronics Ltd (CEL) and an inter-ministerial group is examining certain allegations, a top official said Wednesday. The valuation of CEL has been done by two different sets of advisors – transaction advisor and asset valuer as per prescribed valuation methodologies, […]
Those twenty minutes on a Ferozepur flyover have revealed the underbelly of arguably the greatest street-fighter whoever made it to the office of the prime minister of India. As Amit Shah famously suggested to Satya Pal Malik, the man appears to have clearly misplaced his marbles. And that cannot augur well for our already over-heated polity. […]
Today the nation feels threatened, our collective security and democracy compromised – or so the media would have you believe, with the prime minister’s cavalcade having to turn back due to protests and the allegations of ‘poor security management’ it has given rise to. But in reality, this incident reveals to us the many facets […]
The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday, December 29, revealed that 45 journalists have been killed across the world in 2021, according to its annual Death Watch list. Mexico, for the second consecutive year, recorded the highest number of such killings (7) followed by Indian and Afghanistan (6 each) and then the Democratic Republic of […]
The UP Higher Education Services Commission’s (UPHESC) website was the alleged target of a hack in which the last names of some poets were changed from ‘Allahabadi’ to ‘Prayagraj’. The changes to the website were noticed on Tuesday after which the Commission’s administrations alleged that some “mischievous elements” were responsible for bringing about the discrepancy. […]
The Union aviation ministry has written to all Indian airlines and airport operators, urging them to play “Indian music” on aeroplanes and in airports, noting that it is “seldom played.” The Ministry of Civil Aviation was allegedly acting on a request by the Indian Council of Cultural Research (ICCR). “Music played by most of the […]
This story has a spoiler in the last part. Look away if you haven’t watched the movie yet… In 2019, after a decade of theatrical releases, the Marvel Cinematic Universe reached new heights of box office success with the release of Avengers: Endgame, the second-highest-grossing film of all time. Earning just under $2.8 billion globally, it’s […]
