The local governments’ financial sustenance crucially relies on transfers from the union finance commission, governed by Article 280(3)(bb) and (c) of the Indian Constitution, introduced in ...

A Short Biography of Srinagar by Sadaf Wani, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2024; pp 180, `399.

A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis by S Irudaya Rajan, Bernard D’Sami, Samuel Asir Raj, and P Sivakumar, Orient BlackSwan, 2021; pp 336, `1,465.

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and its platform capitalism float on free speech absolutism that fans Islamophobia. His forays into European politics push a sinister far-right agenda. Musk—born in ...

Three environmental laws passed by the Indian Parliament in 2023 have diluted the safeguards for forests, biodiversity, and marine ecosystems. These laws have effectively deregulated 27.6% of India’s ...

Every few years, inclusive finance goes through a crisis with issues of excessive lending, coercive recovery practices, and high interest rates. The article explains the crisis by looking at product ...

The politics of selling the Kumbh has overtaken the science of crowd management, causing tragedies.

T h e rankings of fiscal health of the states by the Niti Aayog for 2022–23, the ninth in the series, once again bring out their sharp disparities and diverging trends. A major ...