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
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.
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.
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
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.
India’s plural tradition, safeguarded by a constitutional commitment to a secular democracy, is going through challenging times. The founding ideals o
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
Prof M.K. Sridhar , Member of the committee to draft the National Education Policy 2019 has been an educationist all through and has also ser
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
B.V. Acharya, Senior Advocate and one of Karnataka’s eminent lawyers for several decades and five times Advocate General of the State is of the
On September 21st, 2013, The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy organised a consultation in Hyderabad, "Dealing with the Costs of Divisi
In many countries across the world, the active omnipresence of conflicting ideologies is nowhere as apparent as when it comes to official textbooks. G
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
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
Success at Tamil Nadu’s elections has revolved around the politics of subsidies for decades. In this analysis, R. Srinivasan, argues that with
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
A history of fragile governments, even a Chief Minister selected by the toss of a coin, and the search for identity by tribal groups forms the backdro
As Nagaland heads for the polls to the State Assembly on February 27, 2018, an enduring solution to its decades-long crisis remains elusive despite a
Tripura appears set to witness an electoral battle between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)], which has been re-elected for 25 years to
The AIADMK government has moved away from the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and party supremo, Jayalalithaa’s fundamental doctrine of dealing with th
With elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly scheduled on May 12, 2018, the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has endorsed a long-standing
Tamil Nadu's politics today is a startling opposite of what it was nearly a year ago, since the death of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on December 5,
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
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
In this interview with S. Rajendran, Karnataka Representative of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, the State's Minister for Ener
In mid-January, Tamil Nadu was witness to a popular youth protest against the Supreme Court’s ban on holding Jallikattu—an annual rural sport in which
The Karnataka government's refusal to release water to Tamil Nadu despite a Supreme Court ruling has added a new and crucial angle to the Cauvery wate
The Kashmir conflict, already an inextricable part of international politics, is getting more complicated now with attempts to cast conflict resoluti
The surge of Kashmiri nationalism in the Valley could have been harnessed as social capital. But the recent orgy of violence has put paid to that hope
Narendra Modi’s exit from Gujarat’s State politics has brought into the open fissures and vulnerabilities within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that
Budget making at the State level in India has undergone changes since the implementation of the fiscal responsibility legislation and the successive F
Notwithstanding the fact that the BJP/NDA appear to be on a strong wicket in national politics after the elections to five States, these poll results
A mix of local issues and competing ideologies have made the Assam Assembly elections a difficult one to call. In this article, journalist Subir Bh
Karnataka is in the grip of severe drought despite heavy rains in most regions of south-interior Karnataka in early May 2016. The State’s Chief Minist
West Bengal Chief Minister and All India Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is going it alone in the State Assembly election in 2016 and that ma
The election manifesto of the Paataali Makkal Katchi (PMK) for the general elections to the 15th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, released by the PMK
The 2016 Assembly election is crucial for the three fronts in Kerala. While the United Democratic Front (UDF) is making all efforts to continue in pow
The election manifesto of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for the general elections to the 15th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, released by the p
