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Nepalese students affiliated with Nepal Student Union chant slogans against Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli during a protest in Kathmandu on December 20, 2020.

Playing a game of brinkmanship in Nepal

K.P. Sharma Oli’s decision to dissolve Parliament without any basis is likely to turn the clock back

Five years since Paris, an opportunity to build back better

A man reacts as he reunites with his son in Katsina, Nigeria on December 18, 2020. Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram experienced their first full day of freedom on December 18, 2020 after a nearly week-long ordeal.

Mayhem in Nigeria

Garimella Subramaniam Two decades since the return to democracy, Nigeria must do more to uphold the rule of law

Key steps to get this spectrum auction right

V. Sridhar Rohit Prasad The government must avoid the 2016 situation, of a swathe of unsold spectrum block; reserve prices must be revisited

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Playing a game of brinkmanship in Nepal

Mayhem in Nigeria

Five years since Paris, an opportunity to build back better

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Put the farm laws on hold, uphold farmers’ rights

Lessons from Monash

The greatness of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Humans are still core to Digital India

Intermediaries who deliver last mile governance establish trust between governments and citizens

Key steps to get this spectrum auction right

The government must avoid the 2016 situation, of a swathe of unsold spectrum block; reserve prices must be revisited

Losing the plot on women’s safety

The Maharashtra government’s Shakti Act takes a myopic view of the problem of sexual violence

Beyond just persuasion

The protesting farmers need sincerity and accountability from the Centre, not edification

Stopping the slide of health care in India

Policymakers need to focus on the larger picture with steps being taken to reclaim the space under public care

The mystery disease of Eluru

With over 600 people being hospitalised after contracting a sudden, unknown illness and one dead, confusion and fear have prevailed in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, this month. Appaji Reddem reports on the outbreak, the response and the possible causes

Chalking out the Congress’s enduring revival

Even at its nadir, the party is still politically relevant and its revival is linked to how the organisation is rebuilt

A concert is more than just music

COVID-19 has taken away all the finer aspects of the music season

Converting waste to energy

The new plant at Bidadi has several advantages but also some operational challenges

What challenges do online classes pose?

Access, teaching skills and assessment are all challenging but there are ways they can be met

Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda

Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal — providing affordable access to quality food items

The long road to food security

Despite being self-sufficient in agricultural production, India’s hunger levels are alarming

The many challenges for WTO

The next Director-General of the organisation will have to navigate through a slew of thorny issues

A million reasons to march

The farmers’ movement is now a battle not just for the peasantry, but also for justice and dignity

Privacy, a fundamental right the state must protect

An open and transparent government that also respects every citizen’s right to privacy is not a contradiction

A test for Ghana

For the second time in recent times, a candidate has challenged the outcome of a closely contested poll

Why Jawaharlal Nehru University matters

It is a lively national space, a microcosm of India with all its beauty and warts

Law and disorder

Several inadequacies in the justice delivery system lie hidden as disproportionate attention is given to the Supreme Court

From a digital India to a digital Bharat

The PM-WANI project seems to fit within the framework of an evolving decentralised concept to bridge the e-divide

India needs to rethink its nutrition agenda

Poor nutritional outcomes in NFHS-5 show that a piecemeal approach does not work

Tax policy in trying times

The events of the pandemic show how it is the need of the hour to modernise India’s archaic tax laws

Divided States of America

Support for Trump’s fabricated claims depicts anxiety about country’s changing ‘colour’

Convergence of agrarian discontent in South Asia

With protests becoming catalysts for anti-authoritarian struggle, the air is ripe for new visions of rural emancipation

Hazardous ideas for the Himalayas

By planning hydropower projects, India and China are placing the region at great risk

Innovations for cleaner air

Monitoring air pollution alone isn’t enough; India needs context-specific solutions to tackle the problem

A sector that needs to be nursed back to health

Nursing education in India suffers poor quality of training, inequitable distribution, and non-standardised practices

Pragmatic family arrangement, a new business chapter

The memorandum of family arrangement TVS announced gives it a chance to remain as an entity and seek new vistas

Are IT project managers facing an existential crisis?

If they become consultants for clients as well as learn coding, they will be valuable

Iran’s calculated risk

Iran is enhancing its nuclear programme, which can be reversed if talks with the U.S. are revived

The short shelf life of a news peg

For a news reporter, too much verification can sometimes be unhelpful

Stirring the pot in Venezuela

The U.S.-propped extreme opposition's boycott helped the Maduro-led PSUV win in the recent legislative elections

Why quarterly growth numbers are not robust

Official figures on GDP overestimate growth as they are based only on limited organised sector data

New paradigm for Dravidianism

Dravidian politics might soon face one of its greatest modern-day challenges — Hindutva

Thousand days of nutrition, and a billion dreams

The single greatest threat that blocks the promise of India at a foundational level is malnutrition

Lessons from Hyderabad

The GHMC election showed the utility and limits of divisive politics and the irrelevance of the Congress

The Marghazi festival in your living room

The online space has provided a democratic level playing field for artistes during these difficult times

The rise of the AI economy

Three areas need attention if India is aiming to become the AI powerhouse of the world

In Stanford ranking, hope for Indian science

Its grading of scientists could provide much-needed impetus in the backdrop of the National Research Foundation plan

Rajinikanth entry in politics | The politician in waiting

Rajinikanth’s announcement will upset the calculations of the dominant parties in Tamil Nadu

Investing in India’s youth

The skills development sector has grown in India, but has many challenges

Predicting protein structures

AI has resolved a long-standing problem

The ground has fallen out from beneath the farmer’s feet

The Farm Acts are farmer-unfriendly and in violation of important constitutional safeguards

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