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Thursday, February 5, 2026
TopicLokesh Batra

Topic: Lokesh Batra

Modi govt’s plan to make changes to RTI Act an assault on transparency law: Activists 

Sanya Dhingra -
Bill proposing changes relating to ranks, tenures and pay of information commissioners listed for monsoon session of Parliament.

Information commission directs Air India to furnish bills of PM Modi’s foreign visits

Ritika Jain -
The CIC rejected Air India’s submission that the details were exempt from RTI because of ‘commercial confidence and fiduciary relationship with the client’.

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Opinion

Let me explain the K-drama addiction. I, too, am an addict

Manisha Mondal -
The three Ghaziabad sisters were lonely. None of them had gone to school after the Covid-19 pandemic. K-dramas offered them solace.

India lived in ancient Europe as a positive ‘Other’. Ties are way older than colonialism

2026 defence budget is not good enough to achieve Viksit armed forces

Economy

Key grant cut, cash-strapped Himachal slaps a hydropower land cess. Why Punjab is seeing red

Saurabh Chauhan -
With 16th Finance Commission stopping revenue deficit grant to states, Himachal Pradesh is likely to suffer a loss of ‘Rs 50,000 cr over five years’.

Defence

Tejas MK 1A to fly with IAF latest only by June-July this year. Here’s why

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is yet to deliver two of the remaining order of 8 Tejas trainer aircraft as well, an order that was placed in 2010.

National Interest

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

Shekhar Gupta -
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.

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