NITI Aayog released the ‘Strategy for New India @ 75’ document in 2018. This high-sounding and aspirational strategy aims to achieve a ‘New India’ by 2022, when the country celebrates its 75th year of Independence. Laudable features – The strategy …
The RTE Amendment Bill, recently passed in Rajya Sabha, has again triggered the periodic debate between anti-detentionists — votaries of No-Detention Policy (NDP) — and detentionists. What is the amendment? The amendment allows states to decide whether to withdraw automatic …
The latest assessment (Annual Status of Education Report, Rural 2018) of how children are faring in schools in rural areas that except for a small section at the top of the class, the majority of students have not shown any …
Six months have passed since the Supreme Court issued a slew of directions to the Union and State governments to protect India’s ‘pluralist social fabric’ from mob violence. Manipur became the first to pass a remarkable law against lynching, late …
The e-commerce policy was intended to create a facilitative ecosystem for nurturing e-commerce business in India. But it seems to have been bogged down with a disproportionate focus on creating an overarching regulatory framework. Mainstream issues – Ideas such as …
The deaths of 49 students in Navodaya Vidyalaya schools in the last five years, and of three students preparing for the IIT entrance examinations in Kota in a span of four days, brings the issue of youth suicides to the …
It is argued that the only way out of the morass in Afghanistan would be to replace Afghanistan in its traditional mode of neutrality. In other words, external powers must subscribe to a multilateral declaration not to interfere in the …
One of the first decisions of the newly elected government in Rajasthan has been to scrap the minimum educational qualification criteria for candidates contesting local body elections. Background – This reverses the amendments introduced by the previous government in 2015 …
The Government introduced the Dam Safety Bill, 2018 in Lok Sabha last week. It provides for “surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of specified dams for prevention of dam failure related disasters and to provide for institutional mechanism to ensure their …
The wars of the 21st century will be to capture, manipulate or destroy others’ data. Digital systems powering organisations and nations around the world have become prime targets for attack—from individual criminals, well-organised cybercrime gangs, and state-sponsored hackers. As the …
