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TopicGokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Topic: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Crisis at Pune’s Gokhale Institute deepens as founding society’s secy arrested on fund misuse charges

Milind Deshmukh's arrest follows complaint filed by the institute’s officiating deputy registrar. This comes days after a controversy over appointment of Sanjeev Sanyal as chancellor.

Hit by returning fire, founding society reinstates Sanjeev Sanyal as Gokhale Institute chancellor

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune has faced churn since 2024. Sanyal responded to claims made by SIS with examples of ‘suspicious happenings at GIPE campus’.

Sanjeev Sanyal replaced as Gokhale Institute chancellor over ‘no plan of action’ amid slip in rankings

This comes months after former EAC-PM chairperson Bibek Debroy resigned from chancellorship after just 3 months in office, and the controversial removal of V-C Ajit Ranade last September.

Ajit Ranade quits as V-C of Gokhale Institute ‘for personal reasons’ amid ‘ineligibility’ controversy

Ranade was removed from his role at the Pune-based Institute but received relief from Bombay HC. In his resignation letter, he writes it 'doesn't indicate acceptance of ineligibility'.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.