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Conservation is not just ecological but also social, and there can be no capacity-building in this field without gender empowerment. Across India,...
George Bernard Shaw was spot on when he declared that the US and England are two countries separated by a common language. But so too was Henry...
Dharmendra Pradhan should have resigned as Union education minister earlier. Perhaps — who knows? — he wanted to and was prepared to but was not...
Two decades ago, on a hot Sunday afternoon, I was writing what felt like the most important exam of my life. It was a day I had been preparing for...
For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...
On October 15, 1857, a havildar and a sepoy were marched onto the Esplanade in Bombay. Each was tied to the mouth of a cannon. The verdict — that...
When Vikram-1 lifted off from Sriharikota on July 18, it marked more than a technological triumph. Developed by an Indian startup, Skyroot Aerospace,...
Every endocrinologist has encountered this conversation. “Doctor, I’ve put on 12 kilos because of my thyroid.” Or this one: “My thyroid tests...
I write today as a parent to two Generation Z (Gen Z) individuals, as a witness to the current protests, somewhat cognizant of the challenges facing...
For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...
In 2025, India’s smartphone exports crossed a threshold that should change how India thinks about industrial policy. With exports of about ₹2.6...
One of the longest-standing debates in Indian constitutional law and politics has been around whether and to what extent the State should control the...
Before India called itself secular, it had already learnt how to keep the sacred and the political apart. For nearly 25 years after Independence, the...
The outlook on prices has yo-yoed in recent months — first rising, then falling and then rising again. Crude oil prices were easing before the...
India’s greatest climate challenge today is not merely excessive or insufficient rainfall in certain parts of the region. Rather, it is the...
Every popular protest reaches a juncture when governments can no longer ignore it. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janata Party crossed that...
Companies across the world are turning to Chinese open-weight models that now deliver near-frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, trailing the...
As India advances toward Viksit Bharat 2047, the choices it makes about its natural ecosystems will be as consequential as the infrastructure it...
A woman gets bail because the police, arresting her for her husband’s murder, never told her why she was being arrested. A former chief minister...
Delhi saw one of its largest ever student protests on Monday. The obvious comparisons are to the December 2012 protest, which erupted after the brutal...
Centrism is not indecision, but a conscious rejection of the emotional trauma, institutional decay and social fragmentation that result from...
India’s ethanol blending programme (EBP) has become one of the country’s more visible energy security interventions. Launched in 2014 to cut crude...
Earlier this year, three men on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of agricultural migrants in the Moga district of Punjab, injuring two. Nirvair...
In a remarkable and welcome turn of events, the central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is ready to introduce comprehensive...
Power in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) is being built in chip factories, research labs, data centres and export control lists. The question...
US President Donald Trump never tires of calling India the “tariff king”, a country that taxes US goods heavily, sells far more to the US than it...
Do the names Govind Ram and Rajan ring a bell? No? I will introduce you to both, but a little later in this column. Let’s first talk about the...
We’ve reached a point where questions about the Gulf War seem more significant than the answers we have. It’s even arguable that neither side...
The India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) was recently held in the University town of Aix en Provence where my French counterpart and I...
A teacher in school once told Rupal Dhall she should become a lawyer because she was so argumentative. That remark planted the seed of a dream....
The real reason behind Argentina winning the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-finals is actually crazier than the wildest speculations football — not to be...
A few weeks ago, I got back from my 48th trip to India, playing in the Big Cricket League. It still gets me every time, the noise, the colour, the...
If you are looking at the impact of the hunger strike by Ladakh’s engineer-turned-activist Sonam Wangchuk at the protests organised by the Cockroach...
In April 2006, the Union government adopted the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) against the backdrop of rising urban congestion, air pollution,...
India’s draft National Health Research Policy, which was released for public comment in July, has notable strengths. First, the policy draft...
There are inheritances that do not come as wealth or possessions but as values, stories, and a sense of duty passed from one generation to the next....
India’s airports have seen a dramatic makeover in almost all metro cities and several tier-II towns, largely due to the entry of the private sector...
In August 2022, a group of men intercepted a vehicle carrying cattle in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district and assaulted its occupants on...
Many prayers and hymns dedicated to Shree Jagannatha have been there in my memory since childhood. I felt happy singing the bhajans of Mahaprabhu...
Recent admission trends at India’s premier engineering institutions have revealed an encouraging shift. Civil engineering, which, for many years,...
Head: A shorter tax statute is not always a simpler tax law India’s Income Tax Act, 2025 has been celebrated as one of the most significant...
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently announced that she will return to Dhaka by December this year. “They may arrest me on my...
“Walkability is a European concept. People in India do not walk. You people from NGOs visit European cities, see people walking there, come back and...
Cabinet secretary TV Somanathan recently sent a note to every secretary to the Government of India, warning against settling into “a beaten...
He is almost certainly the most influential living hotelier of Indian origin in the world. And ever since Sonu Shivdasani walked away from Soneva, the...
India stands at an inflection point in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The debate is often framed as a binary choice: Should India invest in building...
Between 2020 and 2025, electric buses went from minority traffic to a familiar sight on Indian roads, priced nearly 30% below diesel and backed by...
A spiritual journey is the only real miracle there is. Every year, as lakhs of devotees begin the arduous climb to the holy cave of Baba Barfani, the...
Despite global headwinds, India’s economy has demonstrated resilience, supported by sustained manufacturing performance and strong growth in the...
India is witnessing a constant rise in the number of millionaires and high net- worth individuals (HNIs). In the last financial year, 5,012 people...
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