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Rising summer temperatures are exposing how Indian cities need greener, shaded and people-first planning. Experts say climate resilience now requires...
India is navigating rising oil prices, inflation and climate risks with a calibrated policy approach. While fuel prices remain stable for now,...
The growing trend of using mobile phones on loudspeaker in public spaces is raising concerns over noise pollution and civic behaviour in India....
The modern world has perfected a curious moral skill. Nations have learnt how to be deeply outraged about some wars and curiously patient about...
India’s frequent protests reflect not democratic disorder but gaps in institutional responsiveness, argues policy researcher Dr Srinath Sridharan....
Despite impressive efficiency in entry and security clearance, Navi Mumbai International Airport falls short on signage, connectivity, staff...
Budget 2026 keeps income tax slabs and standard deductions unchanged, ignoring rising middle-class living costs. The tax system favors businesses over...
India’s private schooling system rewards insulation and compliance over learning—and both markets and policy have enabled it.
The Indore water tragedy exposes how citizen apathy and lowered expectations quietly sustain substandard governance in India.
As air pollution worsens across Indian cities, this editorial argues that development divorced from public health is hollow. Growth must prioritise...
It reveals a reality in which the majority of those behind bars are not convicts but citizens waiting for the state to decide whether it believes them...
Mumbai’s mythology was built around its democracy of space—the stories of the local train where a diamond merchant could brush shoulders with a...
Every story of progress begins with a question. Somewhere in the long journey of humankind, an early ancestor must have stared at a spark and wondered...
In every age, humanity has found a way to separate the privileged from the punished. In older civilisations, it was by birth or bloodline. In modern...
For much of the post-war era, the United States has cloaked its foreign policy in the rhetoric of liberty, democracy, and human rights. Yet, the...
The GST Council’s latest decisions have been heralded as the most consequential overhaul of India’s indirect tax regime since the system’s...
When President Donald Trump announced that India would face a 25 per cent tariff from August, alongside a penalty for purchasing arms and energy from...
Leaders must stop hiding behind deniability and set an example, or risk normalising intimidation as public culture.
But what does illness look like, really? Who gets to decide? It’s a quiet reminder that bias often lives within, shaping how we perceive others....
In the wake of another provocation from across the border, with the familiar pattern of state-sponsored terrorism playing out from Pakistani soil,...
That a high court would balance reputational harm, economic interest, and speech freedoms shows an admirable constitutional sensibility
New Delhi: The message surprised me. “Should I buy crypto? Very tempted with the percentage of returns,” wrote a friend I’ve always admired for...
New Delhi: There are moments in life when one should not have to think too hard. Finding a toilet is one of them. But modern design and the obsession...
In a world turning transactional, India must trade consolation for calibration.
New Delhi: The old clock on the café wall ticks steadily. Its hands haven’t been changed in years, slightly slow but dependable. Mr Bawa glances at...
The Indian stock markets witnessed a brutal selloff on Monday, wiping out Rs 14 lakh crore worth of Dalal Street in a single trading session as the...
Will our next internet connection come from space? Will rural India finally get high-speed internet? And will this disrupt the current telecom...
Our phones started making those decisions for us, and we, like obedient disciples, accepted our fate. Now, we don’t just use our phones; we exist...
New Delhi: The arc of history is shaped by resources. The great colonial empires were built on spices, cotton, and opium. The 20th century was defined...
New Delhi: There was a time when family gatherings had that one enthusiastic uncle who, after a glass or two of something stronger, would insist on...
New Delhi: Have you ever stopped to think about how quickly life is changing around us? Why is it that adults today seem to be acting more like kids,...
New Delhi: How do relationships break? Mostly not just from any grand betrayal but more so from the silent erosion of often unmet expectations; where...
New Delhi: The recent AI Action Summit in Paris has once again exposed the deep fractures in global AI governance. While 61 nations, including France,...
New Delhi: As India and the United States enter a pivotal phase in their bilateral engagement, the contours of this partnership must be shaped with a...
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Modi prepares for his upcoming visit to the United States next week, the recent warm welcome of Sam Altman, CEO of...
The shame of returning empty-handed erodes the individual’s self-worth, and the sense of loss becomes more than just financial—it is personal, it...
New Delhi: Come this Monday and Tuesday, Paris, the city of love, will host a different kind of romance—one where world leaders profess their...
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