As per RBI data, Indians mortgaged their gold jewellery to borrow more than Rs 1 lakh crore in 2023-24, nearly five times more than they did in 2018-19.
In the apathetic election season, the mood is swelling but in bhakti. There is an eerie silence on the ground, which is as harsh and blazing as the crude summer sun.
Lieutenant-colonel Khan’s marginality to today’s Hindu-nationalist pantheon helps us understand a larger story unfolding in Jammu and Kashmir: The story of a state that remains partitioned by a line drawn in blood.
If India still must guarantee food rations to millions of its citizens, then the besieged liberals and povertarians may after all, have a case. BJP’s manifesto is a reality check on the very passions it unleashed in 2014.
Modi likes to paint his political rivals as meat-and-fish-gobbling quasi-Muslims who present 'Muslim' manifestos, appease Muslims, and can’t hope to represent India.
Modi scored a big minus on the Jalapaiguri tornado issue. He didn’t say a word about it despite the tornado hitting barely 125 km from the site of his public rally.
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
If serious anti incumbency has built up over a decade in Haryana, which cannot be mitigated by a last minute change of CM, better if the citizens if they choose a new government for five years later this year.
PMLA has made bail virtually impossible. As seen from the exceedingly limited relief which could be granted to a sitting CM by the SC. How could the high court or a trial court move to uphold the norm of Bail is the rule, jail the exception created by the SC itself. Such a drastic curtailment of liberty prior to conviction or even commencement of trial should be seen in cases relating to terrorism or abhorrent violent crime. Money laundering is white collar crime, a variant of tax evasion. There is a case for the honourable apex court to review bail jurisprudence comprehensively.
If serious anti incumbency has built up over a decade in Haryana, which cannot be mitigated by a last minute change of CM, better if the citizens if they choose a new government for five years later this year.
PMLA has made bail virtually impossible. As seen from the exceedingly limited relief which could be granted to a sitting CM by the SC. How could the high court or a trial court move to uphold the norm of Bail is the rule, jail the exception created by the SC itself. Such a drastic curtailment of liberty prior to conviction or even commencement of trial should be seen in cases relating to terrorism or abhorrent violent crime. Money laundering is white collar crime, a variant of tax evasion. There is a case for the honourable apex court to review bail jurisprudence comprehensively.