Context: The World Bank's latest poverty estimates place India's extreme poverty rate at 2.6%.The article questions this estimate, arguing that it may underestimate actual deprivation because income-based poverty measures do not adequately capture wh...

Context: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Tajikistan, raised the issue of terrorism, including cross-border terrorism originating from Pakistan. This was...

Context: The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in its first review of India since 2007, expressed “grave concern” over reports of violence and discrimination by law-enforcement agencies against minority ethnic and ethno...

Context: The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in its first review of India since 2007, expressed “grave concern” over reports of violence and discrimination by law-enforcement agencies against minority ethnic and ethno...