A detailed analysis of the ECI’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR), explaining how unrecorded internal migrations and outdated data silos led to a massive administrative cleanup of India’s electoral rolls.
Indian households are believed to hold about 25,000 tonnes of gold, the largest private stock of any country’s households in the world.
The best ability of Indian refineries is that they can switch between Gulf crude, Russian Urals, and Venezuelan heavy oil. They were built with deep conversion capacity, with units that crack the heavy, sulphur-laden bottom of the barrel into clean diesel and petrol.
Despite an $83 billion defence budget and advanced American weaponry, Saudi Arabia remains fundamentally vulnerable to Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Despite aggressive central targets to solarise one crore households under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, India’s rooftop solar drive faces severe political friction. From electoral freebies neutralizing consumer ROI to anti-islanding misconceptions and state-level inertia, here is why decentralised solar is struggling against free power populism.
Article 324(1) hands the Commission the power of ‘superintendence, direction and control’ over elections. Honestly, it’s one of the most massive grants of authority you’ll find anywhere in the Constitution. Then comes Article 324(2). It says the President appoints the Chief Election Commissioner and other commissioners, but, and this is a crucial detail, it’s explicitly “subject to the provisions of any law made in that behalf by Parliament.”
Why is India delaying or taking so much time to make this deal possible? There is no single answer to that, but if we put the pieces together, India’s go-slow approach starts to make sense and more like a strategy. It rests on five calculations.
India’s renewable expansion is advancing rapidly, yet record power demand continues to force reliance on coal during evening peak hours.
Elon Musk claims domestic “oligarchs” like Mukesh Ambani are intentionally blocking Starlink’s entry into India. We fact-check his latest social media meltdown against regulatory realities, the myth of an unconnected India, exorbitant data pricing, and the American protectionist hypocrisy driving this narrative.
The debate over reservation policy hinges almost entirely on how we read the history. The standard reading of history blames it all on Brahmins, Manusmriti, and the caste system. But how did it all start? Who threw the first stone, and who made the first policy?
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