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Student suicides are a failure of institutions

India, June 10 -- When the Supreme Court appointed a National Task Force (NTF) to look into students' mental health concerns and prevent suicides, it termed student suicides in the country an "epidemi... Read More


Accountability down the sewers

India, June 10 -- Some lives are less equal than others, as we are reminded every day. The deaths of two sanitation workers at a sewage treatment plant in Faridabad on Tuesday highlight one of the cou... Read More


H-1B visa is a measure of American politics

India, June 9 -- Last year, US President Donald Trump sought to smother the H-1B visa programme by raising its application fees tenfold to $1,00,000 - more than the median wage for H-1B workers in 202... Read More


India's politics in the last 12 years

India, June 9 -- Every day, people are exhorted to undergo "preventive" health check-ups. These come in the form of executive check-ups, prevention "camps", and bundled packs which promise more tests ... Read More


The national capital's struggle for water

India, June 8 -- Delhi's water crisis has now entered its third week. The problem has reached such levels that excavators have been pressed into service, digging into the Yamuna to draw pooled water t... Read More


Resetting New Delhi's Kathmandu connection

India, June 8 -- Back-to-back visits to India by the chief of Nepal's ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party, Rabi Lamichhane, and foreign minister Shisir Khanal have prepared the ground for a comprehensive ... Read More


Better divorced than suffering

India, June 8 -- A recent judgement by a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, which invoked Article 142 of the Constitution to dissolve a 15-year marriage, goes a long way in prising open th... Read More


Better divorced than suffering

India, June 7 -- A recent judgement by a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, which invoked Article 142 of the Constitution to dissolve a 15-year marriage, goes a long way in prising open th... Read More


Economy is hurt, not sinking

India, June 5 -- 2025-26 for the Indian economy was the perfect Goldilocks moment. Benchmark inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 2.1%. GDP growth, as per the provisional estim... Read More


Can the Aravallis be saved now?

India, June 4 -- Defining what constitutes the Aravalli ranges has become central to protecting one of North India's longest ecological barriers - a groundwater recharge zone, a desert shield, a biodi... Read More