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Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicPolitical system

Topic: Political system

BJP is remodelling India as a one-party state. And there’s a striking resemblance to China

Modern China gave the world capitalism without democracy. Now India looks set to give the world a one-party state in a multi-party polity.

Young people exposed to Covid-19 can lose trust in politicians for decades: Study

Researchers from LSE and CEPR used data covering 142 countries and analysed responses to questions about confidence in govt, elections, and approval of national leaders.

Modi’s twin victories aren’t aberrations, new era has begun with fourth party system: Study

BJP has emerged as a system-defining party, in response to which all other parties position themselves.

On Camera

The Press is not artillery — neither for the ruling party nor the Opposition: Sachin Sen

The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.