It emerged out of a dissatisfaction with the National Conference’s mode of governance, which had failed to address the grievances of workers and peasants, mostly in the rural countryside. Abdul Salam ...

It is considered a barometer for the overall welfare of a community (Gonzales and Gilleskie 2017). A high IMR in a region is associated with inadequate healthcare systems, insufficient maternal and ...

Much of the reporting prior to his appointment as CJI focused on his uncle, Justice H R Khanna, who should have been CJI in the 1970s but was denied by the union government, ostensibly because of his ...

As per Article 82 of the Constitution—as amended in 2003—after the first census taken after 2026 has been published, the boundaries for parliamentary constituencies shall be redrawn by the ...

On 3 January, the UGC released a draft on “Grading of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) based on National Education Policy (NEP) 2020” followed by the draft of UGC (Minimum Qualifications for ...

And now we have seen it in a judgment of the High Court of Chhattisgarh that acquitted a husband of marital rape on the ground that Sections 375 and 377 and/or murder under Section 304 of the Indian ...

The Human Development Report 2025 shows India has moved up three rungs on the human development index (HDI) rankings to 130th position in 2023. This is a poor consolation as India’s ranking has moved ...

Act, 2025 was passed by Parliament in March 2025 and subsequently notified by the union government in April 2025. The amendment brings several new provisions to the Disaster Management Act, 2005.The ...

We, the citizens, have an “identity” of ourselves but we, the citizens, have been “identified.” The former relates to an individualised identity (Taylor 1994), one that is one’s own, while the latter ...

The former has been the basis of a CNN story titled “India’s Billionaires Got Richer While Coronavirus Pushed Millions of Vulnerable People into Poverty,” while the latter has led the Economist to ...

This book provides a vivid account of the nature and causes of social and economic inequality in the Indian subcontinent in contemporary times. Along with India, the countries considered for the study ...

While the modernisation of society requires strong leadership and planning at the central level, it cannot succeed without engaging grassroots units of self-government. These units ensure active ...