Editorial

On Sunday, all three remaining members of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission resigned within hours of each other. Ajeeta Bhattacharya, Anima Hansda and Jamal Ahmad each stepped down after being summoned by the state’s Criminal Investigation Department for questioning over allegations of large-scale irregularities, including paper leaks, in the commission’s examinations. Their resignations followed that

On the seventeenth day of their agitation, thousands of job aspirants breached police barricades in Ranchi on Monday and marched toward the Jharkhand Assembly, undeterred by heavy security deployment. A student leader on a nine-day hunger strike joined the march by ambulance. Opposition BJP leaders staged a sit-in outside the Chief Minister’s residence and were

Every state election cycle brings the same ritual: fresh deployment of security forces, a fresh model code of conduct freezing government announcements, fresh strain on teachers and civil servants pulled into poll duty, and fresh estimates of what it all cost. It is against this backdrop that “One Nation, One Election” keeps resurfacing in India’s

India’s Public Distribution System quietly feeds more than 80 crore people every month — a logistical achievement with few global parallels. Over the past two years, the government has pushed to modernise this vast machinery: mandatory Aadhaar-based e-KYC for every listed household member, biometric authentication at fair price shops, GPS-tracked grain movement, and cross-referencing of

India’s official response to the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement was, characteristically, four words long: “closely following the development.” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal offered little more when pressed on Friday, saying New Delhi would “keep you updated.” It was the same measured register India used almost a year earlier, in September 2025, when

Earlier this month, Tripura’s Tribal Welfare Minister made a surprise inspection of the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Girls’ Hostel in Agartala after students complained about the quality and supply of their food. He ordered an inquiry, visited two more hostels the same day, and promised strict action if the allegations held up. It was, by

In September 2024, Tripura marked what officials called the end of a 35-year insurgency. At a ceremony in Sepahijala district, 584 cadres of the National Liberation Front of Tripura and the All Tripura Tiger Force laid down their weapons before Chief Minister Manik Saha, part of a tripartite peace accord signed in Delhi in the

Sixty-eight percent of Tripura’s land falls under the jurisdiction of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, home to roughly two-thirds of the state’s tribal population. On paper, that is a remarkable constitutional achievement — a Sixth Schedule body, extended to the state in 1985, designed to let indigenous communities govern their own land, culture

Two scandals within days of each other is not a coincidence a police force can shrug off as bad luck. In Teliamura, Khowai district, an inspector, two sub-inspectors and an assistant sub-inspector were arrested after CCTV footage showed a narcotics seizure being tampered with — hundreds of bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, confiscated from traffickers,