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India, China and fortifying the Africa outreach

Harsh V. Pant Abhishek Mishra

Burnishing their credentials as humanitarian champions is the name of the game, but their approaches differ

“We are not to get alarmed. But we are to be alert.” The Bhuj earthquake in 2001.

A new architecture in quake-prone areas

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Migrant workers who arrived from Mumbai rush to board a local train at Danapur railway station in Bihar on May 31, 2020.

Chaos and insensitivity reign

T.M. Krishna Even now, migrant workers continue to be treated as irritants

A phantom called the Line of Actual Control

V. Sudarshan The absence of a definition of the LAC allows new and surreptitious advances on the ground

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Increasing investment to stimulate growth

Taking a ‘Far East’ turn to deepen a friendship

The risks of legalising cannabis

The ‘Kerala Model’ is unsustainable

Sacrificing liberty for national security

Data on demonetisation's link to economic slowdown may have been suppressed

After Hamza bin Laden

The collaboration of competing anti-Indian and pro-Islamic outfits and standalone clerics is a deadly prospect

Recognising fair criticism on 'The Lancet' editorial

The central focus of ‘The Lancet’ has always been on health, and the editorial on J&K is no different

The monk who shaped India’s secularism

Vivekananda was a proponent of a multicultural nation rooted in religious tolerance and modernity

A top post, its promise and peril

The post of CDS can lead either to a transformation of the defence forces or it could sink with a middling mandate

Crouching tiger, hidden data

The forest bureaucracy has ensured that tiger survey data continue to be withheld from independent scrutiny

Navarros on the ascendant

What explains the trend of economists taking odd policy positions, defying scholarly evidence?

Can a CDS act as a catalyst for further defence reforms?

In India, a strategic process delivers results only when it is backed by political heft, which this government can provide

Democracy under siege

Liberty, equality and fraternity are becoming subservient to a new idea of sovereignty

A lose-lose scenario

The Centre’s actions and plans for Jammu and Kashmir suffer from inherent infirmities.

A law for those who testify

The Centre is yet to act on a Supreme Court directive to legislate on witness protection

An intervention that leads to more questions

Revoking NFU does not necessarily mean giving up restraint, but it leaves India’s nuclear doctrine more ambiguous

Paddy, tube wells and depleting groundwater: Why Punjab’s water resources are under strain

Rice cultivation in Punjab, which thrived in the past due to the easy availability of water resources and free supply of electricity to farmers, is under considerable strain now. Vikas Vasudeva examines how overexploitation has made groundwater not only scarce but also increasingly alkaline.

Giving shape to an elusive strategic concept

The post of Chief of Defence Staff will enable more efficiency in defence planning and help civil-military relations.

Taming Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo

A randomised trial has shown two candidate drugs to be highly effective in curing the disease

Is the removal of special status for J&K justified?

Article 370 marked a recognition of J&K’s history and the circumstances surrounding its accession

On scientific corruption and ‘recommendation letters’

Underhand dealings come in different forms in T.N., as this reporter discovered

Lessons after the great deluge

Kerala needs to adopt watershed-based master planning and review building byelaws

Envisioning Ladakh’s future as UT

Will a greater centralisation of decision-making help the region’s already-fragile terrain?

The story of India’s integration

The coming together of a fifth of all mankind into a single nation is one of the great events in history

A reality check on India’s renewable energy capacity

It has not been able to make full use of reduction in costs

A playing field for political violence

History offers a narrative on why it is so entrenched in Bengal, irrespective of political affiliations

Biodiversity in the time of deluge

As it weathers repeated floods, Kerala needs to take steps to protect its fragile ecology

Sanguine amidst slowdown

Despite stagnant incomes and increased joblessness, Indians are hopeful about the economy’s future

Balancing T.N.’s growth model

The State needs to reduce the burden on Chennai’s water resources by diversifying other urban centres

Writing out a clean Bill on health

Medical education needs continuous reforms; the National Medical Commission Bill could be the first step towards this

Rooting AI in ethics

A technology should be evaluated both on the basis of its utility and the intention of its creator

A mixed bag at film awards

The recently announced National Awards ignored some of the best Malayalam and Tamil films

The perilous state of academic freedom

The present wave of anti-intellectualism, where informed opinions are ridiculed, poses a serious threat

Countering the Right’s hegemony

In a fightback, only a deep fostering of intra-subaltern solidarity using culture can help

Pipe dreams for water transfer

It is time to consider out-of-the-box solutions to take water from a point of surplus to one of deficit

Rethinking water governance strategies

Individual States need to assume the responsibility for managing water resources in their territories

A point to ponder over in the POCSO Bill

More than an emphasis on the death sentence, there needs to be an overhaul of the criminal justice administration

Sushma Swaraj: A tribute from the neighbourhood

‘At a time when Muslim majority countries are very easily incriminated, Sushma Swaraj spoke in favour of Bangladesh’s contribution in countering terrorist attacks’

A harvest of crushed hopes: Why number of hysterectomies are high in Maharashtra’s Beed district

Maharashtra’s drought-stricken district of Beed hit the headlines recently when reports emerged of an unusually high rate of hysterectomies among its women, especially those who migrate to nearby districts to cut sugar cane. Jyoti Shelar pieces together their story as the State administration carries out an investigation

Not the final word from Islamabad and Delhi

There are already signs that the Kulbhushan Jadhav case between Pakistan and India might return to the ICJ

In the right place, at the right time

On being the first Indian to report on Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel win

Much ado about little

Hollowing out of Article 370, which had become a shadow of its original self, doesn’t come as a surprise

Does the Medical Commission Bill encourage quackery?

Training practitioners to head health centres is worth trying, but with strong regulations

A leaf out of the Chinese playbook

India’s actions in Kashmir increasingly show an authoritarian muscularity, reminiscent of its northern neighbour

Social reforms at a snail’s pace

To be seen as a statesman, the Saudi Prince needs to free political prisoners and end the Yemen war

The big picture on tigers

While the number of wild cats has increased, infrastructure expansion plans have totally discounted their presence

Downgraded at the stroke of a pen

The move to convert Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories could open a Pandora’s Box

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