An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) f
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the numbers of persons
One of independent India’s successes, improving life expectancy at birth from about 30 years in the 1950s to the 70s in the 2000s, has also exposed a
An up-to-date compilation of official information released monthwise by the Government of India and the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the year 2
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,400 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,300 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the change in the way in which societies - individuals and groups, businesses and governments - op
India's political discourse, which reached a national characteristic during the freedom struggle, has travelled through several phases since Independe
An up-to-date compilation of official information released monthwise by the Government of India from January 17, 2020, and the World Health Organisati
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of January 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of February 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, for the month of March 2020.
A compilation of press releases issued by the Government of India through the Press Information Bureau, Delhi, from January 17, 2020 and the World Hea
An up-to-date compilation of official information released by the Government of India from January 17, 2020 and the World Health Organisation (WHO) fo
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the National Register of Citi
Disasters are testing times for institutions and individuals, processes and procedures, and policies and their implementation mechanisms. When COVID-1
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting pot of diversity. Whi
The Fifteenth Finance Commission is up against unprecedented challenges. First, the Goods and Services Tax has introduced an element of uncertainty in
Analysing the results of the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 in the 133 scheduled tribes dominated constituencies in the country, the Community Forest Res
The Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (GEO-6), released on March 13, 2019, covers all environmental issues and their link t
The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019 has empowered the state to provide up to 10 per cent reservation in education and public emplo
India is home to the one of the world’s largest flagship programmes for under-6 children, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), which was
As the world’s largest democracy gears up for a season of elections, including the 2019 General Election, there is an urgent need to examine the integ
How has India been doing on the economic and social fronts? The picture that emerges—from casual empiricism as much as from careful analysis of facts
The imposition of the Emergency in June 1975 by Indira Gandhi led to a general uprising across the country under the leadership of Jayaprakash Narayan
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been consistently claiming that its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are unique and that tampering is not
An act of magnanimity by his long-time associate, Lal Krishna Advani, set Atal Bihari Vajpayee on a journey of accomplishment that he had been convinc
Yashwant Sinha, former Union Minister for Finance and Union Minister for External Affairs was a prominent member of Atal Behari Vajpayee’s Bhar
Over the last four years, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government has presided over a politics that has seen the countr
One consistent undercurrent that directs the actions of the four-year old Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Union governme
The Union government stunned the nation on June 10, 2018, when it opened up 10 senior civil services positions at the level of Joint Secretary for lat
Even after 70 years of Independence, India has not stabilised in the sphere of higher education. It continues to grapple with problems of unemployment
"The recent stand-off between Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers and the Delhi government brought into sharp focus the “asymmetry in the arc
When Sonia Gandhi was Congress President, her political secretary, Ahmed Patel, was often referred to as the "second-most important person in the part
In this essay, Rajgopal Saikumar argues that the inherent diarchy in capital cities globally has to be recognised. Demands for full statehood o
The demise of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on December 5, 2016, brings to an end a unique approach to governance and policy-making in Tamil Nadu. In th
Suave and articulate Youth Wing leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, in an exhaustive interview with The Hindu Centre’s M
Senior political journalist M.R. Venkatesh, who has joined The Hindu Centre as Chief Political Coordinator, casts a fresh eye on the inherent possibil
A high-voltage political battle has broken out on the Telangana statehood issue in Andhra Pradesh in the run-up to the 2014 general elections. M.R.
In the summer of 2016, at least a third of India’s rural residents are battling drought, often for the third consecutive year. Where rains have failed
A former head of the Karnataka Police, S.T. Ramesh joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1976 and served the State and the Indian Governmen
Kaushiki Sanyal and Harsimran Kalra explore how other countries have defined lobbying, the mechanism they adopted to regulate these activities and the
With the twin objective of achieving effective digital delivery of public services in rural areas and creating jobs in villages, the Union Government
In keeping with the spirit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, the Union government had, in 2004, introduced a pre-legislative consultative p
Twenty years after the first local body elections were held after the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution came into being to usher in democratic govern
In the wake of the Durga Shakti Nagpal controversy which hit headlines, former senior bureaucrat Dr. Rajivan Krishnaswamy raises an important question
The Government has replaced Planning Commission with a new institution named NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). The institution
Much of the adulatory media coverage of the performance of the Modi Government in its first 100 days overlooked significant gaps between intent and ac
Transformational leaders will be judged not merely by the style of their speeches but more by the substance of their actions.
The appointment of Raghuram Rajan as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India struck a chord with the markets. However, his appointment also highligh
What does the repeated use of ordinance-making power mean for a democratic nation with a robust parliamentary system, ask Harsimran Kalra and Kaushiki
