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Special Status to states: The game of revenues

Special Status to states: The game of revenuesSpecial Status to states: The game of revenues

Among many post-independence challenges, one of the serious issues is how to share revenues collected between the Union Government and… Read More

Parliamentary Budget Office: Why India needs one soon

Parliamentary Budget Office: Why India needs one soonParliamentary Budget Office: Why India needs one soon

Even as the Interim Budget was presented on February 1 and passed on the last day where the Centre called… Read More

Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Insight on the Medico-Legal Status

Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Insight on the Medico-Legal StatusWomen’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Insight on the Medico-Legal Status

Although India was amongst the first few countries to create legal and policy frameworks guaranteeing access to abortion and contraception,… Read More

Re-orient education system to make students think rationally: VP Naidu

Re-orient education system to make students think rationally: VP NaiduRe-orient education system to make students think rationally: VP Naidu

The Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu called for reorienting the education system to make students think rationally and… Read More

Chin Refugees to UNHCR: Don’t revoke refugee status, continue international protection

Chin Refugees to UNHCR: Don’t revoke refugee status, continue international protectionChin Refugees to UNHCR: Don’t revoke refugee status, continue international protection

Demanding an extension of their refugee status and for a repeal of the decision of United Nations High Commissioner for… Read More

India, Afghanistan share immensely deep, rather romantic relationship: Hamid Karzai

India, Afghanistan share immensely deep, rather romantic relationship: Hamid KarzaiIndia, Afghanistan share immensely deep, rather romantic relationship: Hamid Karzai

“India is the most strategic of Afghanistan’s allies in terms of the bilateral relations between the two countries, in terms… Read More

Being a refugee is definitely the harshest experience: Ubais Sainulabdeen

Being a refugee is definitely the harshest experience: Ubais SainulabdeenBeing a refugee is definitely the harshest experience: Ubais Sainulabdeen

For Ubais Sainulabdeen, a chance encounter with a group of people locked inside a fence stonewalled by CRPF guards, led… Read More

No Detention Policy remains a bone of contention

No Detention Policy remains a bone of contentionNo Detention Policy remains a bone of contention

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 or the RTE (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017,… Read More

The Manufacturing story: Why India is falling behind China

The Manufacturing story: Why India is falling behind ChinaThe Manufacturing story: Why India is falling behind China

China and India had similar economies during the 1990s but since then, China’s economy reportedly has grown to be five… Read More

Inclusive or Special needs education: The debate continues

Inclusive or Special needs education: The debate continuesInclusive or Special needs education: The debate continues

In India, there are 27 million people with special needs in a population of 1.2 billion. According to the Census… Read More