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A bureaucrat would fall into a combination of the following categories. Honest, efficient, not pliable and dishonest, inefficient, pliable. It would be an honest admission to accept that a combination of honest, efficient, and non-pliable bureaucrat has become a rare occurrence.

The expose of the Adani group by Hindenburg Research that raises damning questions about the absence of regulation in the country - is getting murkier by the day. But the Belekeri port scam in which a colossal quantity of iron ore was stolen and shipped to China provides both evidence and perspective on how billionaires in India were built.

The government chose to get the Speaker to expunge remarks that show the government in poor light, but does that work? It’s really unusual that the Speaker was asking the opposition leaders to prove their charges before they can be allowed in the House for a discussion or for a joint parliamentary probe. Read on!

Recent clashes between Israel and Palestine could lead to a dangerous escalation. Therefore the UN and the international community must come forward to negotiate a ‘Truce Deal’ between the two nations.

The future of the world rides on how the crisis in Europe plays out. For the war to end, a lot of deals will have to be struck, including one on burying deep the origin of the Coronavirus.

RTI revisions and reforms seem to be the need of the hour. The sixteen-year-old RTI act is bogged by several bottlenecks and calls for immediate intervention.

There is little interest in the stakeholders to end the war as everyone is making big money except the commoners everywhere, writes Sanjay Kapoor

There is so much more that has happened after the State of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its semi-autonomy and rudely bifurcated into two union territories to diminish the political strength of the Kashmir valley.