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
As in 2014 and 2017, so too in 2019, the Jats of western U.P. overwhelmingly voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This time they voted in even larg
By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, and downgraded from a
The Narendra Modi Government has mounted an assault on public institutions and people’s fundamental rights and one such act is the set of amendments p
It was common knowledge that the Supreme Court would deliver its judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit before the Chief Justice of In
Four years after the Government of India launched the Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM), what is the reality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India's largest State?
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,800 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
The full text of the judgement by the Supreme Court of India setting timeframes for Governors to respond to Bills passed by Legislative Assemblies.
Senior political journalist M.R. Venkatesh, who has joined The Hindu Centre as Chief Political Coordinator, casts a fresh eye on the inherent possibil
The Union Budget, 2025-2026, presented by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and related Budget Documents can be accessed here.
Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav released the ‘India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) on Dec. 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has engaged the attention of specialists across several sectors, transcending the field of engineering and technology. Th
Indian Railways is the 4th largest railway network in the world by size with 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track over a 67,368 Km
The National Sample Survery Office (NSSO) recent;ly released two reports of its Annual Survey of Unincoporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) for the year
The National Statistical Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and & Programme Implementation (MoSPI), in August 2024, released the 25th editi
The Union Budget, 2024-2025, presented by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and related Budget Documents can be accessed here.
The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has seen many elections. The State sends six MPs to the 543-strong Lok Sabha but 'Kashmir' adds significantly
Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha and four State Legislative Assemblies (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim) will be held between Apr
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim Budget 2024-2025 on February 1, 2024. Her Budget speech and related Budget Documents c
Even after 70 years of Independence, India has not stabilised in the sphere of higher education. It continues to grapple with problems of unemployment
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
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
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been consistently claiming that its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are unique and that tampering is not
The Union Budget, 2023-2024, presented by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and related Budget Documents can be accessed here.
What are schools meant to do for adolescent-aged children? Are they merely institutions that instil conformity while imparting basic knowledge of the
The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The Hindu Cent
Senior Advocate, B.V. Acharya, who as Special Public Prosecutor relentlessly led the prosecution for over a decade in the well-known disproport
Always volatile, the situation in the Kashmir Valley has taken a turn for the worse in the year since Burhan Wani, the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, wa
An up-to-date compilation of more than 1,700 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 1,600 official statements by the Government of India from January 17, 2020. Links to articles published by The
The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has published the draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 202
The full text of the annual Economic Survey 2017-18, in two volumes, can be accessed here:
The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India
A new report by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation pro
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has published the Draft Rules and Regulations under the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. It has requested
The NITI Aayog, tasked by the Government of India to draw up the National Energy Policy, has published the Draft National Energy Policy on its website
The Central Statistical Origanisation (CSO), a division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Governemnt of India, periodically
India currently has the largest share of youth population in the world, 34.8 per cent as per the 2011 Census, and would continue to hold so for the ne
The NITI Aayog has published a compilation of statistical data sourced from the States and Union Territories of India. The estimates are for the perio
With the end of the Five Year Plan process, the NITI Aayog, the Government of India's premier think tank which replaced the Planning Commission
The NITI Aayog has published the Appraisal Document of the Twelfth Five Year Plan at its website. The document holds out a caution that the &qu
The Union government’s contention in the Supreme Court, in defence of the Aadhaar Act, that India’s citizens lack a fundamental right to privacy, may
Alexander Thomas, founder-member and president of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), founder-member and president of the
"The National Health Policy of 1983 and the National Health Policy of 2002 have served well in guiding the approach for the health sector in the
The inaugural Annual Lecture organised by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy was delivered by P. Chidambaram, on March 13, 2017, at The M
It may be tempting to count the violence at Ramjas College, Delhi, in February as either isolated or yet another fracas. Reducing the organised muz
Kidney diseases are on the increase across all regions of the country and the primary reason is stated to be lifestyle changes leading to diabetes and
On February 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on one of India's most high-profile corruption cases in which it held that the
India's relationship with its neighbours is often a point of passionate discussion. In this article, The Hindu Centre's Public Policy Scholar, Maa
"Our agenda for the next year is, therefore, to ‘Transform India’ in this direction. My Budget proposals are, therefore, built on this transforma
Kashmir remains India’s unsolved puzzle even after six decades. Its history has thrown up strange paradoxes and challenges for policy makers in New De
Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is presented with a few challenges. Plan allocation is down and several centrally-sponsored s
According to studies, the 2014 general election is likely to be the most expensive election in Indian history, with a massive Rs. 30,000 crores being
Despite the huge potential of India’s soft power, it has not been optimally used thus far. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, through his high visilibity a
Back in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to reboot Union-State relations with new initiatives aimed at supporting the aspirations of th
