EVs gain traction globally, India takes three-wheeler throne
In a groundbreaking shift, India has overtaken China to become the largest market for electric three-wheelers, with over 580,000 sales in 2023, according to the latest Global Electric Vehicle Outlook...
View ArticleThe X factor: Politicians love social media. For voters, and for democracy,...
BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday joined the long list of politicians who are using social media platform X. The party’s star on this platform is KT Rama Rao who has over four million...
View ArticleTurnout talk: Lot of chatter & questions about lower voter participation....
Two phases of elections are behind us. Turnout’s lower than 2019’s so far. So, the Indian poll punditry is having a ball. Everyone wears a selector’s hat ahead of selectors’ picking the India cricket...
View ArticleEnhancement of investigation procedure under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Introduction Enactment of the new Criminal laws promises a seismic shift in the criminal legal sphere. These laws promise to overhaul and redefine the existing criminal justice system with...
View ArticleBeyond coin and glory!
The human spirit craves more than just trophies and pay-checks. In a world pulsating with the relentless pursuit of success, an achievement often becomes synonymous with fulfilment. We chase...
View ArticleBloodsucker City Book Review
For my first book review on the site, it was only fitting that it ended up being a horror novella with clear influences by my favorite author: Stephen King. Remarked as a “Shawshank Redemption with...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Novel Review
A monster in the garb of holiday merriment, Billy Chapman (Robert Brian Wilson) slashes his way through 1984’s Silent Night, Deadly Night. This cult classic among horror fans was as controversial as...
View ArticleTurnout talk: Lot of chatter & questions about lower voter participation....
Two phases of elections are behind us. Turnout’s lower than 2019’s so far. So, the Indian poll punditry is having a ball. Everyone wears a selector’s hat ahead of selectors’ picking the India cricket...
View ArticleEnhancement of investigation procedure under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Introduction Enactment of the new Criminal laws promises a seismic shift in the criminal legal sphere. These laws promise to overhaul and redefine the existing criminal justice system with...
View ArticleBeyond coin and glory!
The human spirit craves more than just trophies and pay-checks. In a world pulsating with the relentless pursuit of success, an achievement often becomes synonymous with fulfilment. We chase...
View ArticleDon’t resist, embrace the natural flow of life
By:- Harvinder Pal Singh For a spiritual seeker, attainment of the Divine is the ultimate goal. For him, God is not a concept or an outcome of the mind. In the Divine he sees an...
View ArticleUp in arms: Escalating hostilities in the theatre of conflict have given rise...
Two Bhaisaaabs discussing the theatre of conflict and what it portends. Bhaisaab 1:They’re going at it hammer and tongs, and the whole world’s watching. Bhaisaab 2: And the media are all full of it,...
View ArticleDrugs disorder
SC unswayed by U’khand govt’s action on Patanjali ads. Why did regulator need court orders to act? Yesterday, Supreme Court was unsparing in its takedown of Uttarakhand’s state licensing authority over...
View ArticleMany Revannas: JDS chief’s grandson is yet another example of how the system...
It’s election season. That’s the most likely explanation for JDS suspending Prajwal Revanna, grandson of the party president, who has been accused of sexually exploiting women. Political parties...
View Article‘Congress manifesto is talking point on ground…Defections have made no dent...
Rajya Sabha member and Congress minority affairs chief, 36-year-old poet and party spokesperson Imran Pratapgarhitells Subodh Ghildiyal that campaign language matters, how Congress pulled back the...
View Article‘Elections, the world and us’
GOI’s foreign minister writes that the largest democratic exercise in history will be consequential far beyond India. What the world prizes is political stability and policy predictability, he argues...
View ArticleTackling the illegal wildlife trade in India
In 2015, the forests of southern India witnessed a great tragedy as 28 elephants fell victim to a mass poaching operation. The law enforcement response that followed, Operation Shikar, was one of the...
View Article2024 Elections – Modi versus who !?
Between a rock and a hard place A few friends came home recently for dinner with their spouses. It was a motley crowd of bureaucrats, professionals and writers. The topic veered around inexorably to...
View ArticleLessons from RBI’s action against Kotak Bank
RBI imposing curbs on Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) under section 35A on a ‘cease and desist’ order exposes the bank’s weaknesses in operational risk management (ORM). RBI thus prevented KMB from...
View ArticleWomen negotiating lives in rain and late autumn
“The sky is a grey rag, and the air toxic and muggy. The Delhi monsoon is a betrayal….”. Thus begins the latest novel, Never Never Land, by Namita Gokhale, which showcases again her talent of bringing...
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