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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicDemocracy

Topic: Democracy

Pakistan court hands double life terms to exiled senior journalists, commentators in May 9 riots case

The seven were tried and convicted in absentia on charges of ‘digital terrorism’ over alleged role in 9 May 2023 violence that followed former PM Imran Khan’s arrest.

Aban Raza’s painting turns Delhi art gallery into a classroom on RTI, democracy

Exhibition titled 'Nothing Human is Alien to Me' showcased Aban Raza's paintings at Delhi's Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrücke gallery. Co-founders of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan and key figures in India's RTI movement, had travelled from Rajasthan for it.

Can democracy really function if citizens cannot breathe freely?

When the environment becomes toxic, all other rights fall like dominoes.

‘Human rights & democracy inseparable’: Chile ex-president says Indira’s legacy ‘highly relevant’

Bachelet, only woman to have served as the President of Chile, is the 37th recipient Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award, which was instituted in 1986.

Democracy, non-institutional methods of regime change lead to problems—NSA Ajit Doval

Change of regimes through non-institutional methods in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal were cases of bad governance, Doval says at 6th Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance.

Govt cannot go on bullying citizens: former IAS Kannan Gopinathan after joining Congress

Decision to join politics was after a culmination of six years of introspection and deliberation, former civil servant from Kerala's Kottayam district says.

‘Karki’s interim govt not constitutional or legal, but legitimate’—Nepal ex-law minister Govinda Bandi

Bandi speaks to ThePrint on youth protests in Nepal, Karki’s appointment as PM on basis of ‘wisdom, necessity & momentum of street’ & ‘need for accountability not revenge’.

‘Dangerous anti-democratic shift’—former diplomat Shyam Saran issues warning at book launch

At the launch of his book, Democracy’s Heartland, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said he attempts to highlight why the Indian subcontinent matters.

Paradox of Nepal’s Election Commission—constitutional design, monarchical roots

In 'Democracy's Heartland', SY Quraishi argues that no region has embraced the democratic experiment as fully, or as fiercely, as the Indian subcontinent.

74% Indians ‘satisfied’ with democracy, 2nd-highest among 23 countries surveyed, finds Pew survey

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with political elites or feel their views are not truly represented in govt.

On Camera

Beneath the ice — what a lost US base from the Cold War reveals about Greenland

A failed US plan to hide missiles under the ice now provides vital clues for understanding Greenland’s future and climate risks.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.