Simply put: The hat-trick

Simply put: Diagnosing the State

Simply put: Golden cow milk

Simply put: EU delegation in Kashmir

Insurance schemes beyond the reach of poor

“For tribals, panchayatiraj has not helped”

As told to Parliament (February 8, 2024): 605 people killed in human-elephant conflict in 2022-23

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Ceasing to be a citizen?

Excluson of four million people from Assam's draft National Citizen Registry has created panic among the inhabitants

Philately and wild India

Through the years, Indian stamps have featured local flora and fauna in varying degrees. Here is an overview

The young, old and an unequal world

Younger, meaner, more self-indulgent, angry and insecure in a climate risked world. We don’t deserve this

Swachh Bharat Mission: other name for coercion and deprivation

What started as a campaign to make India open defecation free, has now taken shape of a cocercive policy of shaming people for not using toilets, …

Can technology support forest rights process?

As false claims under the Forest Rights Act raise alarms, villages in Gujarat show how communities can use technology to address them

Monumental mistake

An elected member of legislative assembly from Uttar Pradesh, BJP's Sangeet Som called Taj Mahal a "blot on Indian history" recently

Fast food MNCs indifferent towards eliminating antibiotic use in India; consumers unaware

None of the fast food companies that CSE surveyed has made any specific time-bound commitment to reduce or eliminate any kind of antibiotics

Warnings on encephalitis and floods unheeded

If more children die in August in Gorakhpur and floods occur every year during monsoon, then why are we not prepared?

The Behaviour Puzzle

Stigmatising the powerless is not the way to a cleaner India, but only a more ashamed India

These crucial exemptions

Exemptions given in drug patent protection are vital for research as the court ruled in the Natco versus Bayer case

Watch: "5-year-plan was a good method to measure growth"

The March 31, 2017 marks the end of the five-year-planning method. Former planning commission member B K Chaturvedi explains why India needs to …

Watch: Who will miss India's five-year-plans?

Former member of the planning commission N C Saxena explains what the end of five year planning means and if Niti Aayog can fill the gap

What will its first far-right leader since WWII mean for Italy?

Right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni looks on course to secure at least 230 of the 400 seats in the Lower House, giving it a clear majority

Liz Truss: who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

Truss’s brand of economic libertarianism, political optimism and hawkishness proved decisive in the 2022 leadership contest

Pitfalls in a promise: Rajasthan’s urban income security efforts throw up new challenges

The state’s attempt to provide income security to urban poor shows challenges of designing a wage guarantee scheme for towns and cities

Will Biden dare to use march-in rights?

Health advocates are asking Washington to use laws that allow patent override on drugs developed with public funds

No money to fix leaky roofs, MGNREGS workers in West Bengal fear upcoming monsoon

The Centre has blocked the state’s funds for the rural employment scheme for over a year, jeopardising the economic conditions of …

Israel elections: Who women vote for and how it's shifting

Will having a woman, who is also secular and leading a right-wing religious alliance for the first time, affect Israeli voting patterns?