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A contentious and deeply divisive debate over the difference between sex and gender identity officially landed at India’s Supreme Court last week. A...
On October 21, the defence ministers of Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia signed the Badr Memorandum of Understanding, a project to jointly...
It was during the gathering chill of October-November 1962 that Chinese troops breached India’s northeastern frontiers, forcing the country into an...
India’s energy needs are growing rapidly. As the economy expands — with 7.8% real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026-27 — so does demand...
With rare exceptions, the political party of the president of the US has always lost seats in the Congressional mid-term elections. The Republicans,...
Rarely, if ever, do former judges of the Supreme Court raise disturbing questions about their colleagues or the collegium system for choosing judges....
How low can you stoop? Perhaps Vivek Ramaswamy can tell us. The Indian-origin Republican billionaire running for governor of Ohio planned to splash...
Why is it that a country united by a civilisation for millennia, has people who at the level of daily life, are so easily divided? Of course, we have...
Last Sunday was the 226th birth anniversary of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Few British statesmen have left a deeper mark on India, or been more...
A few days ago, a 45-year-old woman came to me seeking treatment for obesity. She was not diabetic, but was about 20 kilos overweight and could be a...
The latest Global Innovation Index placed India 38th. The commentariat will repeat what it says every year: Our R&D expenditure is only ~0.6% of...
Imagine a worker at a brick kiln in eastern Uttar Pradesh who is the sole wage-earner in a family of five. Although he earns enough to keep the...
Recent debates around the working and functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI) have once again stirred a debate around the role of...
India’s ethanol programme is one of its clearest energy security successes, reaching 20% blending (E20) five years ahead of the 2030 target and...
Science alone makes ethanol seem like an inefficient fuel. The conversion efficiency of sunlight-to-biomass-energy is a low percentage figure for...
When I travelled to New Delhi for the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ Meeting, I had a clear goal: to explore how Nepal and its neighbour could work...
Delhi’s urban challenges are increasingly interconnected. Transport, housing, water, sanitation, energy, and health care form part of a wider urban...
A woman who gathers the courage to report domestic abuse, a girl threatened with online blackmail, and a child rescued from trafficking share one...
On November 2, 1976, the Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Bill by 366 votes to four. Opposition leaders such as Morarji Desai,...
Those of us who learned to drive before smartphones will remember getting lost. A wrong turn meant stopping to ask a shopkeeper for directions and...
The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) — with over 800 million beneficiaries — is the largest food security programme in the world....
The Union budget for 2026-27 committed the government to a second campus of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences somewhere in...
Somehow the issue of service charges at restaurants never goes away. It’s back in the news again after a Delhi hotel was fined for levying a service...
Last month, China’s principal science funder selected 44 young researchers (all under 35) and committed to funding them for up to 15 years with no...
Global food security is once again under growing pressure. Disruptions to maritime trade, grain supplies and energy flows affect prices, transport...
Every February, the most scrutinised number in Indian public finance is the fiscal deficit. It captures the gap between cash coming in and cash going...
On October 20, external affairs minister S Jaishankar met US secretary of State Marco Rubio and UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed in...
On October 20, external affairs minister S Jaishankar met US secretary of State Marco Rubio and UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed in...
In the two decades since its inception, BRICS has evolved into an influential anchor of the Global South and a driving force for reforming the...
I first came to India in 2003. Although I didn’t know much about him then, Narendra Modi had already been chief minister of Gujarat for two years....
On a pleasant September morning in 1982, as I was returning home in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), I noticed a posse of Provincial Armed Constabulary...
The sudden spurt of violence in the agitation opposing the proposed 11,200-MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh should be a...
On October 27, Israel will hold its first general elections since the October 7, 2023, massacre, in which Hamas murdered many Israelis (Jews and...
A question I was asked at Manthan Samvaad in Hyderabad last week has set me thinking: Who would you identify as the key influences that have...
In an ideal situation, strong public health systems must ensure women have access to affordable and high-quality health care, preventive services, and...
If the months of the year were days of the week, October would be Friday — slightly relaxed, a little indulgent,and smelling of holidays in the...
The festive season has thrown a lid on the boiling cauldron that is Indian politics right now. Opposition to protests in the Capital during the...
When US secretary of State and national security advisor Marco Rubio arrived in Mumbai, an accompanying journalist said it was “remarkable” and...
A doctor checks a prescription with artificial intelligence (AI): Could medicines interact; has anything been missed? At home, their patient asks AI...
Who is remembered when a mountain peak is summited, and whose forgotten labour makes it possible? Is conquest the only relationship between a person...
The ground rules of investing are like the traffic rules in Delhi — more ignored than followed. Common errors include buying last year’s winners,...
Economic progress in India is said to have demographic winds at its back. Half of Indians are under 29, and the working-age population will keep...
This year, the US is celebrating 250 years since its Declaration of Independence. In October, India marked a very different but unusual milestone: 25...
In March this year, the Donald Trump administration announced that American policy didn’t prohibit the “development or employment” of lethal...
The United Nations selects its secretary-general every five years, with a possible extension for a further five. The term of the current...
It is curious how the right to protest looks different from opposite sides of a barricade. Arun Jaitley, former president of the Delhi University...
A friend of mine recently got hold of an invite-only app called Instinct. It sits inside an ordinary messaging app on his phone, and you talk to it as...
On Saturday, as mass protests swept France, a youth orchestra struck a defiant note beneath a towering statue of Marianne, the representation of the...
When Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi assumed office in 2014, agriculture and farmer welfare were placed at the heart of India’s development...
The Swachh Bharat Mission turned 12 earlier this month. After constructing household toilets, to close the sanitation loop, the mission’s...
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