Passage 1
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The year was 1951. On one hand was a nation basking in its newly independent status; on the other, a people ravaged by Partition.
The new nation, though, was ready for its first tryst with democracy and at the centre of it was a constitutional body called the Election Commission of India...
Passage 1
A state has filed a suit at the Supreme Court claiming that the Centre is withholding national disaster relief funds, after Cyclone and consequent floods rocked the state in December 2023. Just last month the Karnataka government had also filed a plea with the apex court, claiming that the Centre is denying disaster relief funds that are necessary to aid drought-affected areas in...
