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In recent years, while investment flows from China have dwindled, trade between the two countries has only deepened.
The House passed a new Bill to remove all hereditary peers, fulfilling a manifesto pledge of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party
The confidence and preparedness the UAE has displayed during an unprecedented situation should be studied as a model.
Children’s social media use in India frequently operates through a ‘double-proxy’ dynamic. Nearly 71 per cent of the children reported using a...
A new body of research suggests that the impulse to register experiences may be older than we think
West Asia is today part of India's extended neighbourhood, vital to its energy security and hosting a massive diaspora contributing equally to the...
The sense of liberation that comes from allowing oneself to simply be with these hollow-boned wonders as they go about their brief and beautiful lives...
Screening must reach millions of women across villages and cities, awareness campaigns must challenge stigma and delay, and diagnostic and treatment...
There is something instructional about this praise. Once strength is established, expectations adjust accordingly. The strong woman becomes the one...
There is something instructional about this praise. Once strength is established, expectations adjust accordingly. The strong woman becomes the one...
Nitish Kumar built a regional party, the Janata Dal (United), which never allowed the BJP to form a government on its own. The future of the party now...
Having prised open space for governance in a state where caste has etched deep and polarising lines on the ground, having ensured that a UP-style...
While legal restrictions on warfare in the maritime domain remain the subject of debate, several facts about the US targeting an Iranian warship are...
For the AAP, this is a moment of vindication. Going ahead, it will need to build on it, politically. For the CBI and the government that controls it,...
In times when checks and balances on power are weakening, a special court in Delhi has sent out a message resonant and reassuring in a democracy:...
The moral burden on India’s Israel policy is increasingly untenable in the face of profound changes sweeping the Middle East. Israel has emerged as...
Joan Didion once said that she never really knows what she is thinking until she has put pen to paper — a conviction echoed by other practitioners...
While the Gujarat government’s bid to constrict individual freedom and legitimise the politically contrived spectre of “love jihad” is...
The 15 per cent levy is in place for 150 days. There is little clarity on what will happen after this period ends.
The AAP government swept to power in Punjab in 2022 amid vaulting expectations of a new start in the state. Encounters, including and especially those...
Two iconic roles illustrate how Duvall, despite never being a typical Hollywood leading man, earned his place among the screen greats. In Francis Ford...
The logic of a 4,000-kilometre-long border, shared history and culture, and strong economic cooperation provide strong reasons for mutually beneficial...
Most studies identify Europe as the fastest-warming continent. Floods, lethal heatwaves and devastating forest fires almost every year of this decade...
When former US President Barack Obama was asked on a podcast this weekend whether aliens were real, he replied, “They’re real but I haven’t seen...
Two iconic roles illustrate how Duvall, despite never being a typical Hollywood leading man, earned his place among the screen greats. In Francis Ford...
The logic of a 4,000-kilometre-long border, shared history and culture, and strong economic cooperation provide strong reasons for mutually beneficial...
Most studies identify Europe as the fastest-warming continent. Floods, lethal heatwaves and devastating forest fires almost every year of this decade...
The Delhi summit is an opportunity to build a richer, more inclusive AI system.
Conversations on capability, governance and inclusion will increasingly find expression in global platforms such as the AI Impact Summit 2026, which...
The supply comfort in commodities, both global and domestic, is a redeeming feature in the present situation, where the rupee and the stock market are...
Manipur needs to be freed from the prolonged impasse. The longer the fragmentation and militarisation of society persist, the harder it will be to...
What if there had been no teacher to see in Coogler the early sparks of a brilliant career? Where would anyone be without their guiding hand?
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 20, 1986.
The BJP's 12th president, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined, is a “millennial”, who represents a generational shift in the party.
One wonders whether those who chanted the slogans appreciate the historical importance of places beyond their homeland, and whether they seek to learn...
If the BJP wishes to be true to its mandate, it must be fair and generous to the opposition – because otherwise, it is the citizen who suffers
In recent years, India has stitched up a series of trade agreements with countries like Australia, UAE and UK, greatly easing market access. An...
A game that was once segregated on racial lines in Africa, divided along social lines in England and Australia, that once saw a prominent British...
By the time the court’s paperwork was finalised, TMC had already won the political round. They successfully turned a potentially damaging raid into...
For Mahasweta Devi, literary imagination was inseparable from activism.
A strategy of gradually arriving at an indeterminate fair value while seeking to avoid shocks might be the optimal
Equally significant is the Church’s outreach to society’s most neglected: The poor, Dalits, tribals, migrants, and the differently abled
Perhaps the most striking change is political. Countries that once viewed India through the prism of Pakistan — such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE —...
The impeachment initiated by the INDIA bloc is not about one order alone, but about the conduct of Justice G R Swaminathan over the past two years.
While it is sustainable thanks to long-standing connections in traditional spheres, it is also stagnant since new areas have not been clearly defined
While it is sustainable thanks to long-standing connections in traditional spheres, it is also stagnant since new areas have not been clearly defined
This city behaves as if clean air and comfort can coexist. They cannot. Not with the way we consume, drive, build and burn. The weather is not doing...
Its makers were not bound by the limited imagination of Western liberal constitutionalism with its emphasis on state restriction, recognising instead...
Uttar Pradesh is fast emerging as India’s spiritual capital — a place where myth, history and pilgrimage converge. The moment offers us a chance...