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Two days after the Election Commission of India announced the dates for West Bengal Assembly polls on March 18, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) booth president was hacked to death due to intra-party rivalry in North 24 Parganas district, claiming the first fatality of the upcoming Assembly elections. In the past decade, Bengal has remained the … Read more

Kerala’s total R&D spending as a fraction of its GSDP is less than half of India’s 0.6% of GDP, a figure already considered inadequate. | Photo Credit: Galeanu Mihai In recent years, Kerala has framed its development strategy around equity and environmental protection. Between 2021-22 and 2026-27, it anchored its State budgets to the pillars … Read more

Welcome back data enthusiasts. Over the past month, as the war in West Asia has unfolded, we have moved beyond tracking missiles, conflict maps and casualty counts to look at something less visible but just as important — the spillover costs of the conflict. In the last two weeks, we focused on how the war … Read more

A fisherman casts his net in the Yamuna river, laden with foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi. The foam is a result of high levels of pollutants, particularly ammonia and phosphates, from industrial and wastewater discharges. | Photo Credit: AFP Every year, during the preparations for and festivities of Chhath Puja in Delhi, … Read more

A fisherman casts his net in the Yamuna river, laden with foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi. The foam is a result of high levels of pollutants, particularly ammonia and phosphates, from industrial and wastewater discharges. | Photo Credit: AFP Every year, during the preparations for and festivities of Chhath Puja in Delhi, … Read more

Women voters have become a central point of discussion in elections in India in recent times. Rightly so, because parties in power roll out women-centric schemes, sometimes even direct cash transfer ones, to win their support. Opposition parties too make promises about initiating schemes for women’s welfare, if elected. These promises seem to making some impact, which … Read more

When the conflict in West Asia, which began with the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran on February 28, escalated into a regional war, analysts said that the war would last as long as Iran had missiles or until the Gulf nations ran out of interceptors. However, with “emergency” military sales, piling monetary costs and … Read more

Low voltage: An electric vehicle charging station at Freedom Park in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J The surge in global oil prices after the U.S.-Iran war has exposed the differing levels of energy vulnerability in Asia’s two largest economies, India and China. Since the conflict began on February 28, crude and refined fuel prices … Read more