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Nutrition is fundamental to human development, public health and national prosperity. Yet malnutrition remains a global challenge, manifesting as...
India’s democratic institutions face a new test as synthetic media spreads through public life. The country had about 970 million internet...
Jio Platforms’ entry into the stock market marks a significant moment in the evolution of Indian capitalism. Built by Mukesh Ambani, the company has...
India’s emergence as a supplier of human-generated data for artificial intelligence presents an economic opportunity, but also a familiar danger:...
The continuing war in Ukraine is placing strain not only on Kyiv but also on Europe, especially since it assumed the sole responsibility to fund...
Central banks are rarely accused of moving too soon. Yet on October 7, the RBI raised the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 per cent and...
Should English really continue to be regarded as a foreign language in India? On 28 September 2026, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court,...
The pursuit of peace in Ukraine risks becoming an exercise in diplomatic theatre if the principal parties mistake the willingness to negotiate for a...
The greatest danger in the digital age may not be the invention of new ways to attack computer systems, but the discovery of weaknesses that have...
Scroll through any social media feed or You Tube reel today and a familiar figure appears between the cricket reels and the travel vlogs. He is a...
The conventional depiction of the Shudra as an unskilled, servile stratum performing brute manual toil is an ideological artifact of text-making...
Immigration policy is an exercise of national sovereignty, but its consequences extend far beyond government offices and corporate hiring decisions....
The detention of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), followed by their release after a week in custody, raises questions that extend...
The important ingredient for societal transformation would mainly come from science. On 28 February 2006, former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul...
I mran Khan’s grand political tragedy stems from a simple, elegant, and deeply flawed premise: he believed that governing an ungovernable...
Prophesies, predictions and speculation about humanity’s future have caught the imagination of several scientists, philosophers, prophets, religious...
The shooting attempt on actor Tiger Shroff has revived an uncomfortable question about Mumbai: can a city that symbolises India’s commercial and...
Nineteen deaths at a Durga Puja pandal have shattered an assumption that generations of Kolkatans took for granted: that the city’s greatest annual...
Courage was not in short supply on the morning of 22 October 1947. Raiders backed by Pakistan crossed into Jammu and Kashmir and fell on Muzaffarabad....
The Himalayas pose a stark test for India and China: can strategic rivals cooperate when inaction threatens lives, livelihoods and regional security?...
The Middle East has once again become the centre of a global power struggle. On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched its devastating attack on Israel,...
Why does a central bank’s announcement about next year’s interest rates move prices and wages today? It sounds technical but it is at the heart of...
Faith is among the most intimate dimensions of human life, a quiet dialogue between the individual and the divine, nurtured in silence, strengthened...
President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine into halting attacks on Russian oil refineries risks producing an outcome opposite to the stated...
The BJP started with the avowed intention of making India Congress-mukt. Congress was, still is, the principal opposition with a pan-India footprint....
The award of the 2026 economics Nobel to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford recognises a body of research that has transformed how central banks...
Bangladesh’s engagement with China is not inherently a threat to India, nor should Dhaka be expected to subordinate its economic choices to New...
A dispute over a seat reserved for senior citizens inside a Delhi Metro train has ended in the death of a 48-year-old man. According to police and...
Human beings often treat nature as an unlimited storehouse, clearing forests, polluting rivers and degrading soil for immediate gain. Animals and...
Light & Line Drawings by Vidya Shankar and Sangita Kalarickal is an intense collaborative collection that explores the mysteries of the mundane....
The 125th birth anniversary year of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as JP, began on 11 October. JP’s life was inseparable from the...
Pakistan’s attempt to tighten its grip on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exposes a familiar contradiction in the country’s political order: the state invokes...
The meeting between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay highlights a pressing challenge...
Donald Trump had stated on multiple occasions, “The Ukrainian conflict should never have happened, and would not have happened if I were...
India accords the highest significance to the three national holidays – Independence Day, Republic Day and Gandhi Jayanti. These occasions...
There are moments when a society reveals itself not through what its leaders say, but through what ordinary people instinctively do when danger...
National Highway 148A, in its original form, connects Delhi to Gurgaon through what is known as the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road. It is one of a handful of...
A democracy’s freedoms depend not merely on constitutional guarantees, but on whether those guarantees can be enforced when the government finds...
In the quiet corridors of India’s universities and colleges, a paradox unfolds every academic year. On paper, the University Grants Commission...
What makes a place a city? For most of us, the look, form and feel of any settlement give that impression. In India, the census office has long...
The recent 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi served as a high-profile stage for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President XI Jinping to...
There are moments when I find the human species almost impossible to understand. We are capable of extraordinary tenderness and unimaginable cruelty,...
The US midterm elections on November 3 will test whether President Donald Trump’s political dominance can survive the consequences of his own...
The growing prominence of women in Delhi’s protests signals more than another episode of student unrest or opposition mobilisation. It reflects a...
After forcing the resignation of the Union Education Minister for his inept handling of paper leaks, the Cockroach Janta Party has gone on a...
India’s manufacturing ambitions have survived successive disappointments. Now, stronger industrial growth and rising exports offer fresh grounds for...
The renewed rise in American inflation exposes the fragility of economic stability and threatens President Donald Trump’s promise to make life more...
A woman undergoing treatment for abdominal pain suddenly discovers that she has advanced-stage ovarian cancer. Treatment begins at a cancer centre in...
On World Food Day, 16 October 2026, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has chosen the theme “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” The...
The National Statistics Office reported on 31 August that real GDP grew 7.8 per cent in April-June, above both the RBI’s projection of 7.0 per cent...