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Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted ethanol blending as a key strategy to reduce India’s dependence on imported crude oil. Recent disruptions...
The two-week pause in hostilities announced by US President Donald Trump is being sold as a breakthrough. It is anything but. What has emerged is not...
In the run-up to the West Bengal Assembly elections, an extraordinary situation has emerged: millions of citizens may find themselves excluded from...
In the coming days, India will be immersed in a festive season, with celebrations taking place across the length and breadth of the nation. The people...
The Indian Navy’s hosting of the IONS Maritime Exercise (IMEX) TTX 2026 in Kochi marks more than a routine multilateral engagement. It signals the...
When a downed fighter pilot is recovered from hostile terrain, it is tempting to see only a story of military competence and individual survival. Yet...
Resignation of the non-executive, independent Chairman of HDFC Bank Ltd. sent its share prices in a tailspin ~ declining by 5 per cent immediately,...
In an era when gender identity is debated in courts, campuses, and cultural spaces across India, it is easy to assume that fluid expressions of gender...
The structural transformation of the Indian economy over the past decade has been anchored by a fundamental shift in the credit architecture, moving...
The United States and Israeli strikes on Iran have become increasingly concerning for the world due to the risks of further escalation and the impact...
The Iranian Kharg island is a coral outcrop in the Persian Gulf, 25 kilometers off mainland Iran. It is now the cynosure and flashpoint of the ensuing...
When a late 19th-century painting by Raja Ravi Varma sells for $17.9 million (₹167 crore) at an auction, the number is arresting ~ but the meaning...
India’s energy policy is often described in the language of “security”. That framing is comforting ~ and misleading. What the country is really...
In his address to America last week, President Donald Trump stated that his ‘objectives are nearing completion’ in the war against Iran and that...
Most people don’t think of their chats or cloud storage as something tax authorities might access. India’s latest enforcement push is starting to...
In August 2025, S&P Global Ratings upgraded India’s sovereign credit rating from BBB ~ to BBB ~ the first such elevation in eighteen years. The...
When US President Donald Trump again raises the possibility of withdrawing the United States from NATO, the immediate reaction is to treat it as...
The launch of Artemis II is being celebrated as a technological milestone, but its deeper significance lies elsewhere. This mission is less about...
In 1978, the Supreme Court of India did something that raised eyebrows and chuckles in equal measure – it declared that temples could be classified...
The Government of India is reportedly planning a special session of Parliament to expedite the implementation of the Constitution (One Hundred and...
When US President Donald Trump addressed the American people on the ongoing conflict with Iran, the intent was clear: project control, signal...
When a central bank moves to shut down parts of a $100-billion-plus daily market, it is not merely regulating ~ it is signaling distress. The recent...
A child today does not learn about food first from a classroom, a parent, or even a textbook. More often, the first lessons come from packaging,...
In recent years, organic farming has come to occupy a powerful moral position in public discourse. Farmers’ markets, government programmes and...
In the run-up to every election in India, political parties roll out a dazzling menu of promises like free electricity, free bus rides, cash...
India’s decision to finally undertake a full census after more than a decade is not merely an exercise in counting heads. It is an attempt to regain...
When a group of Indian seafarers finally returned home from the Gulf after months of detention and weeks of living under the shadow of missile fire,...
There was a time when wars were distant spectacles – names in newspapers, maps in atlases, and stories carried by travellers. Today, wars have no...
In 1848, the world was viewed through the lens of steam engines and clockwork. When Marx and Engels formulated their critique of capital, they did so...
India’s economic story has long rested on a simple promise: study hard, secure a stable job, and enter the middle class. That compact is now quietly...
The United States now finds itself drawn into yet another conflict in the Middle East, one whose origins are as troubling as its consequences are...
As a struggling filmmaker, I find myself watching the world with a kind of discipline d distance ; absorbing, observing, feeling deeply, and yet...
The elevation of General Min Aung Hlaing to the presidency marks not a transition in Myanmar’s politics, but its refinement. What appears to be a...
In khadi, Gandhi came closest to finding such a science and his ideal practitioner ~ the satyagrahi scientist, Maganlal Gandhi. In the khadi movement,...
The sudden retreat of foreign capital ~ around $12 billion in March alone ~ from Indian equities is being read as a reaction to war and rising oil...
Pakistan’s sudden emergence as a would-be intermediary between Iran and the United States is being framed as diplomatic agility. In fact, it is a...
April 2 stands as a quiet corrective in a noisy world. Celebrated as International Fact-Checking Day, it arrives right after April Fools’ Day,...
India, the world’s largest democracy, faces a growing governance challenge : leadership without demonstrated competence. Over 900 million vo ters...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Lok Sabha, just a day before the RSS-BJP juggernaut had set the date for the official deletion and...
The world tends to think of oil as the bloodstream of the global economy. But the current disruption around the Strait of Hormuz reveals something...
Traditionally, the days following Holi mark a gradual shift in weather as winter gives way to the summer months. Climate change has upended such...
The language of power often reve als more than it intends. In a rare moment of candour on March 7, the US president, Donald Trump, described the...
In academia, critics have expressed different opinions about Gandhi’s views on science. One of the reasons may be that Gandhi himself had...
Across parts of rural India, an unusual crop is quietly redrawing the economics of farming. Dragon fruit, a climbing cactus once considered exotic, is...
While the nation’s concentration remains on the ongoing Iran conflict, mainly due to fears of shortages and possible increase in prices of fuel and...
India’s fertiliser system is often discussed as an issue of subsidy, efficiency, or environmental overuse. It is, in fact, something more...
The turning point came in 2011, not in the forests of Bastar, but in the imposing courtroom of the Supreme Court in Delhi, where Salwa Judum did not...
As World War II ended, the victors, USA, USSR, Britain and China, established the United Nations (UN) with the avowed aim of maintaining international...
When the mercurial Donald Trump announces a deadline, the instinct is to read it as a countdown to action. In reality, it is often something else: a...
“The river is flowing, flowing down to the sea. Mother carry me, your child I will always be, Mother carry me down to the sea.” – Ojibwe Native...
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