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Where ignorance is bliss

As India’s GDP clocked 8.2 per cent in Q2, IMF gave a ‘C’ grading to our national account statistics. It also labelled the RBI’s exchange rate...

yesterday 10

Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Broken Promise

Lionel Messi’s brief and chaotic appearance in Kolkata was not merely a case of crowd impatience or celebrity excess. It was a revealing moment...

yesterday 20

New Delhi

Trans-Atlantic ties face Trump threat

Quietly hitting back at the US for its claims of Europe ‘decaying’ and its leaders ‘weak,’ the EU indefinitely froze $246 billion of Russian assets...

yesterday 10

Harsha Kakar New Delhi

Heritage Reclaimed

When Prada unveiled a pair of luxury sandals whose braided leather pattern mirrored the Kolhapuri chappal, it triggered an unusually sharp public...

yesterday 10

New Delhi

Border of Distrust

The renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is a reminder that ceasefires, when imposed rather than earned, rarely outlast the pressure that...

previous day 10

New Delhi

AI for India

India has suddenly become the centre of global attention in artificial intelligence, not for producing the next OpenAI or DeepSeek, but for the...

previous day 5

New Delhi

IndiGo regulatory capture: How India’s biggest airline bent the system and hurt passengers

IndiGo regulatory capture is not a slogan. It is a description of how power really works in Indian aviation today. In early December, India watched...

previous day 7

Captain Amit Singh New Delhi

Finger on the button

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, expires on 5 February 2026. Moscow has...

previous day 10

Srinivas Madha New Delhi

‘Safeguarding India’s interests vital’

Rajya Sabha member Harsh Vardhan Shringla was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by the President of India, after a diplomatic career...

14.12.2025 10

Nikhil Vyas New Delhi

‘Rising Barriers’

Mexico’s sweeping decision to impose tariffs of up to 50 per cent on more than 1,400 imported products is more than a routine policy recalibration....

14.12.2025 40

New Delhi

Uneasy vacuum

Bangladesh is headed into a February 12 election and a referendum on the July Charter, a proposal to rebalance and limit executive power as well as...

14.12.2025 2

New Delhi

Redrawing India’s cinematic future

As the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) came to a close in Goa, there was a sense that something larger than the event itself had...

14.12.2025 2

Chaitanya K. Prasad Kolkata

Fed in Flux

The latest interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve should have been a routine step in a predictable easing cycle. Instead, it has exposed the...

14.12.2025 4

New Delhi

Housework Valued

India may have stumbled into one of its most consequential social experiments without fully intending to: paying women simply for being the...

14.12.2025 20

New Delhi

Emperor and the Raja

As the dust of politics settles down on statements made by a state-level senior leader on Raja Rammohun Roy – saying that Roy was a ‘British agent’...

14.12.2025 20

Raju Mansukhani New Delhi

Odisha raises stakes with a bold pharma thrust

Odisha is preparing to host the Odisha Pharma Summit 2025, a landmark event that could redefine the state’s industrial trajectory. Positioned as a...

14.12.2025 2

Charudutta Panigrahi New Delhi

A Minimalistic life

Advertisement Advertisement Dipping temperatures set in the perfect vibe for warming olfactive revelry. Amid growing global economic uncertainty,...

14.12.2025 20

Manas Das New Delhi Updated

The first instalment of freedom

At 5 a.m., a vast segment of India’s workforce begins its day. There are no punch-ins, no holidays, no salary slips, and crucially no mention in...

13.12.2025 20

New Delhi

Defining Citizenship

The United States is once again confronting a question that cuts to the heart of its democratic self-understanding: who belongs, and on what terms?...

13.12.2025 1