Equally significant is the Church’s outreach to society’s most neglected: The poor, Dalits, tribals, migrants, and the differently abled

Among the most significant structural changes in the VB-G RAM G is the shift from unconditional, demand-driven obligation to budget-capped provisioning, with the states bearing a 40 per cent share of expenditure

Let us not forget that the ‘real issues about religions and religiosity’ rest on the bedrock of faith in supernatural power, which shapes our destiny

Everyone gets obsessed with 'Window'. We read other writers — great writers — but we keep asking each other what it is about the Shukla book that keeps calling us back

Making the price build-up of blended petrol public, including the ethanol share, its procurement cost, and its tax treatment, would enhance accountability, improve fiscal coordination between the Centre and states, and give consumers a clear picture of what they are paying for

The Supreme Court has long stood as the ultimate guardian of India’s environmental legacy, a role that this judgment now risks diluting

The ISA proved to be a diplomatic win for India in a multipolar world to forge a new treaty-based international organisation. India not only reached out to “solar-rich” developing countries, but actively brought on board developed countries and other non-state actors with keen financial interests in untapped markets

What Selvaraj ultimately captures is a simple but unsettling truth: Love, in such worlds, is not merely emotional sustenance but a survival strategy

The plan would identify permissible areas for mining, ecologically sensitive areas, and core areas only after incorporating a thorough analysis of the cumulative environmental impacts and include post-mining restoration and rehabilitation measures

Despite appearances, the ‘MAGA 2.0’ administration is governed by personality-driven whims rather than systematic process, making US policy highly unpredictable and reactive

As temperatures rise across India and South Asia, heatwaves are triggering crop failures, humanitarian disasters, and a growing crisis of heat-related illness

As the world leaves the Compute Era and enters the Diffusion Era, India – its companies, its institutions and governments – must ask three questions

Applied to electoral rolls, completeness demands that no eligible citizen is disenfranchised, whereas soundness demands that no ineligible person is included. These goals often come into tension in real-world systems.

Liability remains politically contentious. If something goes wrong, who pays, how much, and how quickly do victims get compensated? India’s 2010 law carried a strong moral impulse, shaped by the experience of the Bhopal gas tragedy

Since there was no opportunity for a meaningful discussion on the Bill before its passage, it is necessary to seriously engage with the clarifications and response of Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan in this newspaper

Nearly two centuries since his Minute, if Macaulay were to revisit India, he would be mostly disappointed to find that major sections of elites and masses from India have responded to his plea for colonising the mind in more complex ways than those who resurrect him imagine

An award season favourite and his first film since his 2022 imprisonment, the film offers no easy answers or catharsis, but remains resolutely humane

Two decades after elimination was announced, persistent child cases reveal ongoing transmission, late detection, and critical gaps in India’s leprosy control strategy

From agrarian reform and rural–urban inequality to social justice and sustainability, Charan Singh’s ideas offer urgent lessons for contemporary India

The choice before India is clear: Continue with fragmented welfare expansion that erodes fiscal health, or adopt a national framework that balances compassion with prudence, ensuring equity, stability, and sustainability

Although the CJI’s oral remarks are not legally binding, they risk shaping national public opinion in a harmful way and may further embolden the current regime to treat brutally those it categorises as “infiltrators/ghuspaithiya”

One can debate whether an Islamic society is the solution to Bangladesh’s challenges surrounding development and identity, but blaming India is certainly not

Old values still matter, but hard work, patience and perseverance can’t be taught through fake deprivation in a world where abundance is real

Every creature, from a lactobacillus to a leopard, is living on borrowed life. Predation is simply the returning of that loan. In nature, being eaten isn’t always a tragedy

Delhi cannot solve a structural problem through seasonal theatrics. What it needs is a permanent clean-transport war room and a unified five-year mission