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Electricity is meant to be governed by regulation, not market volatility. Yet policy concessions and structural changes under the Electricity Act, 2003 have pushed power costs upwards, shifting the burden onto discoms and consumers.
As youth unemployment hits a record high, Himachal Pradesh is quietly replacing permanent recruitments with temporary “Mitra” roles – a new model of gig-style governance, one that leaves over 6.7 lakh jobseekers without security or timelines.
India’s linguistic diversity is being reframed as proof of an ancient cultural unity centred on Sanskrit, even though linguistic evidence points in the opposite direction.
The recent surge of foreign investment in India’s banking sector is driven mainly by India’s falling net FDI and external financial pressures. The authors warn that opening banking further to foreign capital could increase instability and India’s dependence on global finance.
In 2002, when larger media organisations refused to publish allegations against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a small-town newspaper editor did. Ram Chander Chhatrapati paid with his life. This story revisits the extraordinary courage of local journalists who challenged a powerful godman.
‘“Enough is Enough”: Goans Fight to Reclaim Selfhood Against Inept Governance’; ‘A Green Revolution in Goa’; ‘“Our Fight Is Everyone’s Fight”: A Diary of Goa’s Six-Day Protest Against Land-Regulation Changes’.
The retired professor of contemporary history from JNU says that Nehru is targeted because he embodied the core “idea of India” forged during the freedom struggle: secularism, democracy, anti-imperialism, social justice, and scientific temper – values fundamentally opposed to the current ruling dispensation.
In this reflection, Dr. Salim Nazzal argues that Lebanon’s strength lies not only in military resistance but in a profound cultural legacy built over centuries.
‘Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity in the Trump Era’: The re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, dubbed the “Donroe doctrine” in 2025, has aimed to limit China / Russia influence but often fractures regional cohesion. Also: ‘The Trump Corollary: Imperialist Offensive and the Assault on Venezuela’.
By securitising four decades of Afghan refugee presence rather than addressing it as a human reality, Pakistan risks sowing deep and lasting resentment across Pashtun communities on both sides of the Durand Line.
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