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By Nirupama Subramanian Unlike in the elections of 2008 and 2013, there is a strong perception this time that the Pakistan Army is pulling strings behind the scenes to ensure that

By MUDASIR SHEIKH If you told someone who has a little understanding of monetary history, that Riba empowered the financial elite to influence everything from world wars to almost every social, political

By BILAL AHMAD NAIK We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstandings                                                                                                                    —Rudyard Kipling, Recently WhatsApp, the Facebook owned company, said in India it will

By Dr Madabhushi Sridhar The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2018 attempts to dilute the independence of Central and State Information Commissioners (ICs) besides giving undue powers to the government of the

By Rajmohan Gandhi The law of transience does not work at desired speed. Yet one may be allowed to hope, as far as India is concerned, that the elections due before the

By Dr Ramzy Baroud The head of the Arab Joint List Alliance at the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), Aymen Odeh, described the passing of the racist Jewish Nation-state Law as “the death of

By M.K. Narayanan The fate of the governance of the National Capital Territory of Delhi was decided earlier this month by the Supreme Court. But one had to pore over 500 pages

By Sachin Pilot The recent incident of mob lynching in Alwar has re-opened the festering wounds of Rajasthan’s failed administration. The killing of Rakbar Khan, the sole breadwinner of his family by

By Amrita Pillai Reshma Sekhar Judicial academies play a significant role in equipping trainee judges to deliver lean, to-the-point judgments. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Judicial academies must focus on equipping trainee

By Jawed Naqvi GENERAL elections due have already taken a frightful toll on innocent Pakistani lives. And those who fear that democracy is being hollowed out in favour of an illiberal polity