The dialling-down of China-India tensions suggests President Xi Jinping and PM Narendra Modi are looking to move beyond the military impasse on the LAC. Agreement on the sprawling Depsang Plains in Ladakh, though, has eluded military negotiators. The two leaders will now need to give the process a political push.
SC’s gender stereotypes handbook is a good first step. Now, carry this spirit to judgments
It’s about time that the courts updated themselves and did away with outdated, sexist, and charged words from their lexicon. The Supreme Court’s ‘Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes’ is a good first step in a longer process. Now, they should carry the spirit of these changes to the judgments too.
Modi’s ‘imported’ inflation logic won’t work for 2023. Govt policy needs fact-based approach
Prime Minister Modi might have been correct if he’d said India’s inflation was “imported” last year when oil was above $100 a barrel. This year, data indubitably shows, domestic vegetable prices are driving inflation. It might be politically expedient to externalise the cause, but government policy needs a fact-based approach.