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Hiring and firing the CEC: Street noise can’t replace the bedrock of law and parliamentary procedure

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."
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Battle for Election Commissioners in Independent India

3 vs 1: The battle for Election Commissioners in democratic India

Seshan dusted off the Model Code of Conduct. It was a campaign rulebook that had basically been sitting on a shelf gathering dust since the 1960s, but Seshan gave it teeth. Suddenly, sitting ministers and powerful ruling parties were getting slapped with violations. He ordered repolls. He disqualified politicians for blowing past spending limits. For the first time ever, the threat of cancelling an election wasn't just empty talk. It was a loaded weapon.
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India’s reckoning with deep sea mining and research

At ONGC’s August 2026 AGM, Chairman A.K. Singh said the company will invest about ₹1 lakh crore in cash over five years to drill 87 deepwater wells by March 2031, roughly ₹20,000 crore a year. They’ll start slow with just four wells in FY26, but plan to crank it up to 27 in the final year. Singh didn't mince words about why they're in such a mad dash, either: India’s crude output has been sliding downhill for eleven straight years.
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Battle for Election Commissioners in Independent India

3 vs 1: The battle for Election Commissioners in democratic India

October 6, 2026

Seshan dusted off the Model Code of Conduct. It was a campaign rulebook that had basically been sitting on a shelf gathering dust since the 1960s, but Seshan gave it teeth. Suddenly, sitting ministers and powerful ruling parties were getting slapped with violations. He ordered repolls. He disqualified politicians for blowing past spending limits. For the first time ever, the threat of cancelling an election wasn’t just empty talk. It was a loaded weapon.

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India’s reckoning with deep sea mining and research

September 25, 2026

At ONGC’s August 2026 AGM, Chairman A.K. Singh said the company will invest about ₹1 lakh crore in cash over five years to drill 87 deepwater wells by March 2031, roughly ₹20,000 crore a year. They’ll start slow with just four wells in FY26, but plan to crank it up to 27 in the final year. Singh didn’t mince words about why they’re in such a mad dash, either: India’s crude output has been sliding downhill for eleven straight years.

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Latest articles by Divyansh

Hiring and firing the CEC: Street noise can’t replace the bedrock of law and parliamentary procedure

October 13, 2026

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.”

Read article →
Battle for Election Commissioners in Independent India

3 vs 1: The battle for Election Commissioners in democratic India

October 6, 2026

Seshan dusted off the Model Code of Conduct. It was a campaign rulebook that had basically been sitting on a shelf gathering dust since the 1960s, but Seshan gave it teeth. Suddenly, sitting ministers and powerful ruling parties were getting slapped with violations. He ordered repolls. He disqualified politicians for blowing past spending limits. For the first time ever, the threat of cancelling an election wasn’t just empty talk. It was a loaded weapon.

Read article →

India’s reckoning with deep sea mining and research

September 25, 2026

At ONGC’s August 2026 AGM, Chairman A.K. Singh said the company will invest about ₹1 lakh crore in cash over five years to drill 87 deepwater wells by March 2031, roughly ₹20,000 crore a year. They’ll start slow with just four wells in FY26, but plan to crank it up to 27 in the final year. Singh didn’t mince words about why they’re in such a mad dash, either: India’s crude output has been sliding downhill for eleven straight years.

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