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How India’s experience reflects on women’s evolving role in peacekeeping

November 17, 2025 7:47 pm

How does India’s experience offer a constructive lens for understanding how women’s participation can evolve toward meaningful engagement, institutional reform, and the transformative potential of peacekeeping?

UPSC CSE 2025: Commission opens personality test application link at upsconline.gov.in

November 15, 2025 9:23 am

UPSC CSE 2025: The Union Public Service Commission has directed candidates to complete and revise their application details via the official website, between November 13 and November 27, by 6 pm.

How growing preference for swadeshi fuels goals of Atmanirbhar Bharat

November 14, 2025 10:45 am

How do the growing preference for Indian-made goods and emphasis on indigenous innovations reflect on the Atmanirbhar Bharat and Swadeshi visions? How is the story of the Industrial Revolution important to understand the trajectory of India’s manufacturing sector and the enduring appeal of swadeshi products?

What makes India increasingly vulnerable to tropical cyclones

November 13, 2025 8:22 pm

Why does the Indian subcontinent experience frequent tropical cyclones? How do climate change and sea-level rise increase India’s cyclone vulnerability? Have improved forecasting and preparedness reduced cyclone-related casualties in recent years?

On the question of constitutional morality, how are law and morality related?

November 16, 2025 3:04 pm

The most challenging legal questions often arise from the deep intertwining of law and morality, as seen in debates over issues like abortion and euthanasia. In the resolution of these difficult questions, how does the tradition of constitutional morality become crucial?

pollution, air pollution, protest, traffic

How protest at India Gate puts spotlight back to pollution and traffic woes

November 11, 2025 12:46 pm

In a country like India, where urban population is rapidly growing and air pollution is continuously worsening, a well-planned and effective public transit network is no longer optional. But what challenges remain in scaling up a clean and sustainable transit system, and how might they be addressed?

Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | When India first smelted iron

November 11, 2025 12:50 pm

Is it possible that the global Iron Age started in India? Why did the Copper Age and the Bronze Age appear first in human history, and only later the Iron Age? Were the Aryans drawn to India by the prospect of trading for iron?

algorithms shaping children's socialisation

How algorithms, not human touch, affect socialisation of children

November 07, 2025 12:14 pm

How did the popularisation of TV in the 1990s alter human proximity? How does touch provide regulatory effects on children’s physiological processes? What is ‘technoference’? Is there an urgent need to know how to pause, listen, and hold one another?

How GST reforms boost consumption, growth

November 06, 2025 10:07 am

GST 2.0 is expected to have a broader impact by encouraging spending across income groups. However, its success would hinge on how consumers choose to use the additional income, whether in increased consumption or increased saving.

Attorney General of India, Constitution, Supreme Court

How Attorney General remains central to the functioning of the Indian Republic

November 05, 2025 9:12 am

The Constitution places the AGI in a unique position that enables interaction with all three organs of the state - Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary. But what kind of challenges does the First Law Officer face in acting not just as the government’s lawyer, but also as the keeper of the Constitutional conscience and the chief defender of the rule of law?