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The Mecca defence pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan creates synergies that are not in India’s interest by and large, even if they do...
Six years of zero MDR delivered unprecedented digital payments at the price of underinvestment, rising fraud risk, and market concentration.
The government must also look at creating indigenous social media platforms with graded exposure to young people.
India’s fluctuating policy regarding gold imports has oscillated between rates of 2 percent, 10 percent, 6 percent, and 15 percent, with each...
The certainty of punishment is a bigger deterrent than the extent of punishment.
The symbolism of a sweaty, dishevelled, bleeding Gandhi willing to side with a young population is the hero’s arc the Congress scion has waited over...
Dholavira and Sri Lanka both demonstrated similar environmental intelligence. What sets Sri Lanka apart is its willingness to maintain what was built...
Foreign media correspondents should be willing to document the present Kashmir with the same rigour they did in the past.
The re-emergence of Aung San Suu Kyi and Sheikh Hasina reveals why personality still trumps institutions in India’s neighbourhood
Western shows like The Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Do, and Winx Club let girls make bad decisions before saving the day. But in India, girls like Chutki...
Rebecca Welton, played by Hannah Waddingham in Ted Lasso, holds power without becoming a parody of it. Sharp, vain and funny, she shows those traits...
Spectacle has an unfortunate habit of making everything else look small. As a consequence, romance has lost prime real estate.
At a Delhi dive bar, slurs gave way to songs and dancing, raising a question about who gets to claim a queer space and what it should stand for.
After spending years trying to reinvent themselves, Bollywood’s ageing stars are discovering that audiences may not necessarily want a new version...
De-indexing name-based searches from court websites and legal databases may end up having worse consequences for the acquitted or discharged persons...
Narendra Modi and Nitin Nabin laughing makes a great photo, but it has failed to cheer up BJP workers. They may be wondering what, if anything, now...
In September 2012, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa addressed the 7th meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in Delhi, accusing Karnataka of denying Tamil...
Manmohan Singh called it our biggest threat 20 years ago. The state won the war, but history shows Left insurgencies don't stay dead for long.
Much like smoking, books too are back in Vogue. Gone are the days of the literati; now is the time of the 'hot literati'. Books boost your sexual,...
From New York’s Missed Connections Booth to India’s singles mixers, the romantically exhausted are ditching swipes for strangers and a little...
Myths often survive because they contain a grain of scientific truth. The idea that sunscreen causes vitamin D deficiency sounds perfectly...
In September 2012, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa addressed the 7th meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in Delhi, accusing Karnataka of denying Tamil...
Whether you want to conquer off-road puddles or mount a weapons platform, Toyota’s rugged icon stands in a league of its own.
‘Bhojpuri Bawaal’ is almost a compilation of various celeb vlogs. An added treat is that for once, we don’t see Bhojpuri celebrities painted in...
From Sabrina Carpenter to Bianca Censori, high fashion is playing 'show and tell' with skin. But where on earth do we actually wear it?
Many wondered what Abhinav Bisht would do after the protest. But it was only the beginning. Hoping to cash in on the Gen Z economy, the geriatric...
Now that the ruling Sangh Parivar leaders failed to bend the movement, other faces from the ecosystem are trying to make it their own so that...
In a state still adjusting to the end of the Dravidian duopoly, the Cauvery row has intensified the increasingly personalised contest between...
A critical consequence is that Pakistani leadership may now price an escalation cheaper than earlier. This raises the likelihood of a crisis rather...
Preity Zinta’s 'Batwara 1947' experience revives an old myth: that women’s lives began and ended in the kitchen.
Pakistan has already acquired over 200 Chinese SH-15 truck-mounted howitzers. It is enough to equip around 12 artillery regiments, with 18 guns in...
With RJD’s popularity nosediving and Nitish’s JDU not in the pink of its health, the non-BJP vote bank will be looking for an alternative...
If a July movement was required to oust Sheikh Hasina, her comeback would need another movement backed by Awami League cadre and supporters.
If our aim is to achieve rapid economic development of our country, then there is a need to reduce direct taxes, wrote G N Lawande in 1959.
The Fauci-Rand Paul hearing shows why the American bureaucracy was not smearing China, but defending it.
As Gen Z grows into India’s largest voting-age generation, political parties will have to reckon with its diversity.
Bangladesh’s ex-President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu resigned two years earlier than the stipulated time. The spotlight is now on Chief of Army...
Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming, if it happens, would undoubtedly be the biggest political spectacle in Bangladesh after the 2024 student-led July...
Friends who would never be seen dead at a political event turned up at Jantar Mantar with their kids. Here's what broke the rules of dissent under...
Narendra Modi's popularity has carried the BJP through three general elections. But when one leader claims every success, he also risks being blamed...
While there’s no clarity yet on how much a buyer will need to pay once merchant discount rate kicks in, businesses are typically known to pass on...
Jatakas tell us that Siddhartha Gautama had left behind 40,001 wives when he embarked in search of enlightenment. These were not meant to be taken...
PM Modi is going through a period of poor visibility in the news media. On Wednesday, the Delhi edition of TOI made no mention of him until page 8.
Political quietude is the ethic that befits a minority. We may call it the Minority Dharma.
What we are seeing now is not only a new generation of voters asserting its presence, but a change in the very architecture of persuasion itself.
"The US can continue to increase arms sales to Taiwan, but if China were to sell weapons to Iran, it would be committing a grave taboo," wrote a...
Air power used to be the instrument of escalation, the thing a state reached for once diplomacy had failed. Increasingly, it is no longer the last...
Not every side character needs a backstory, and making Stuart or Georgie lead a show proves television has officially lost the plot.
Investors are pouring billions into extending human lifespan through biotech and biohacking. The bigger opportunity lies in helping older adults stay...
With an estimated 1.6 lakh of its 3.79 lakh voters being upper-caste Hindus, Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Prashant Kishor has...