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• Resume SAARC, renew friendships | Jawed Naqvi

  24 May 2025, by Jawed Naqvi

  THE late poet and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi described a strange method of writing film songs, which has come to bear a close resemblance to the method in Prime Minister Narendra Modi

• Draft UGC Regulations, 2025: Whither Cooperative Federalism? |

  24 May 2025, by Nayakara Veeresha

  Abstract
  The UGC Draft Regulations, 2025 seek to supersede the existing UGC 2018 Rules for the Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges. The 2025 Draft fails to explain or to provide the reasons for bringing up the new regulations. This has given rise to many doubts and apprehensions among the academia about the intent and motivation behind the new draft regulations. Most significantly it widened the trust deficit (…)

• Modi using Delegate Diplomacy as weapon to fight his adversaries and refashion his image | Arun Srivastava

  24 May 2025

  by Arun Srivastava
  Indeed, bizarre Narendra Modi who believes in the dictum that there are no friends in politics, has become the victim of the intrigues of his best friend Donald Trump. His keeping quiet posture to Trump

• Comments on Recently Released Gene Edited Rice Varieties in India | Soma Marla

  24 May 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Recently Indian agricultural minister has unveiled nation

• Trump heads ultra-capitalist, hyper-technological, neo-monarchy | Ash Narain Roy

  24 May 2025, by Ash Narain Roy

  Thy hand, great Anarch! let

• Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi: Instead of multiple delegations abroad to push India’s Case on terror, send just one to Pakistan to talk Peace | Pandey, Saleem & Thomas

  24 May 2025, by Sandeep Pandey

  Shri Narendra Modi
  Prime Minister of India
  Respected Shri Modi,
  The Socialist Party (India) would like to suggest through this open letter that the government abandon the plan of sending seven delegations of members of different political parties to countries around the world in a bid to make the world aware of India

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  Sapru House at 70: The Quiet Powerhouse That Shaped India

  24 May 2025

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  At 70, Sapru House is not just a milestone of brick and marble

• Pahalgam Tragedy: Rising Spiral of Hatred | Ram Puniyani

  24 May 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  The killings of 26 tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam were one of the worst tragedies in recent times. Baisaran is a lovely spot reachable only on horses or by walking in the uneven terrain. The killings left the whole nation in deep grief. While the terrorists killed tourists after confirming the religion of the victims, one Muslim, the local person escorting the tourists, tried to resist and was killed. Kashmiri porters also carried the tourists to safe places and opened their houses and (…)

• Post-Pahalgam Policy Challenges Before the Union Government | P. S. Jayaramu

  24 May 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  May 21 2025
  The barbaric killing of innocent citizens in Pahalgam is behind us, unfortunate as it was. The Operation Sindoor which followed it, though many citizens felt the action was agonisingly slow, is also behind us, though the Government has declared that it is is only under a pause. The Prime Minister, while addressing the nation said so and declared a doctrine of sorts affirming that any further terrorist strikes by the Pak-supported groups would be construed as acts of war and (…)

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  Homage to Jayant Narlikar | Soma Marla

  24 May 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar a doyen of Astrophysics and Cosmology has passed away in the night of May 19, 2025. An astrophysicist and emeritus Professor for Astronomy and Astrophysiscs at the Inter-University centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Mumbai. At an early age, as a Masters student at Cambridge University, UK he worked with renowned astrophysicist Sir Alfred Hoyle and developed the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle-Narlikar theory. The theory synthesises