expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
Statesman News ServiceThe Statesman |
West Bengal’s electoral politics has long turned on a simple but powerful arithmetic: consolidation versus fragmentation. As the state approaches...
The death of Asha Bhosle is not merely the passing of a celebrated artist; it signals the fading of a cultural ecosystem that once defined Indian...
The contest shaping the 21st century is not a war in the traditional sense, but a race to define how intelligence itself will be produced, deployed,...
The crisis unfolding across India’s cities is not, at its core, about cooking gas. It is about the quiet architecture of exclusion that underpins...
India is on the verge of a regulatory shift that could quietly redefine the nature of free speech in the digital age. The government’s latest move...
The signal from the Reserve Bank of India is subtle but consequential: India may be settling into an extended phase of relatively low interest rates....
In India’s cities, the hiring of domestic help is being quietly transformed from a social arrangement into a digital transaction. What was once...
As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares for its high-speed re-entry and scheduled splashdown in the Pacific off San Diego, it marks more than the end...
When a global conflict intrudes into domestic politics, governments face a delicate balancing act: managing real economic risks while shaping public...
The Supreme Court is once again confronting a question it has never fully resolved: where does faith end and the Constitution begin? The renewed...
The two-week pause in hostilities announced by US President Donald Trump is being sold as a breakthrough. It is anything but. What has emerged is not...
In the run-up to the West Bengal Assembly elections, an extraordinary situation has emerged: millions of citizens may find themselves excluded from...
When a downed fighter pilot is recovered from hostile terrain, it is tempting to see only a story of military competence and individual survival. Yet...
In an era when gender identity is debated in courts, campuses, and cultural spaces across India, it is easy to assume that fluid expressions of gender...
When a late 19th-century painting by Raja Ravi Varma sells for $17.9 million (₹167 crore) at an auction, the number is arresting ~ but the meaning...
India’s energy policy is often described in the language of “security”. That framing is comforting ~ and misleading. What the country is really...
When US President Donald Trump again raises the possibility of withdrawing the United States from NATO, the immediate reaction is to treat it as...
The launch of Artemis II is being celebrated as a technological milestone, but its deeper significance lies elsewhere. This mission is less about...
When US President Donald Trump addressed the American people on the ongoing conflict with Iran, the intent was clear: project control, signal...
When a central bank moves to shut down parts of a $100-billion-plus daily market, it is not merely regulating ~ it is signaling distress. The recent...
India’s decision to finally undertake a full census after more than a decade is not merely an exercise in counting heads. It is an attempt to regain...
When a group of Indian seafarers finally returned home from the Gulf after months of detention and weeks of living under the shadow of missile fire,...
India’s economic story has long rested on a simple promise: study hard, secure a stable job, and enter the middle class. That compact is now quietly...
The elevation of General Min Aung Hlaing to the presidency marks not a transition in Myanmar’s politics, but its refinement. What appears to be a...
The sudden retreat of foreign capital ~ around $12 billion in March alone ~ from Indian equities is being read as a reaction to war and rising oil...
Pakistan’s sudden emergence as a would-be intermediary between Iran and the United States is being framed as diplomatic agility. In fact, it is a...
The world tends to think of oil as the bloodstream of the global economy. But the current disruption around the Strait of Hormuz reveals something...
Across parts of rural India, an unusual crop is quietly redrawing the economics of farming. Dragon fruit, a climbing cactus once considered exotic, is...
India’s fertiliser system is often discussed as an issue of subsidy, efficiency, or environmental overuse. It is, in fact, something more...
When the mercurial Donald Trump announces a deadline, the instinct is to read it as a countdown to action. In reality, it is often something else: a...
India’s latest amendment to its transgender rights framework signals a decisive turn in how the state understands identity ~ not as something lived...
Denmark’s latest election has delivered a result that is numerically decisive yet politically hollow. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen remains at...
The arrival of British universities on Indian soil is being framed as a natural evolution of global education. But the fact is that this is a...
India’s latest attempt to reform corporate law marks a decisive shift in philosophy: from criminal prosecution to civil penalties. The intent,...
When 31-year-old Harish Rana, in a long-standing vegetative state, was moved from home care to a palliative unit in the All-India Institute of Medical...
The rejection of a judicial reform proposal in Italy is more than a policy setback ~ it is an early signal that the political equilibrium built by...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Parliament on the unfolding crisis in West Asia, the emphasis was not on rhetoric but on calibration. The...
The most telling measure of today’s climate crisis is not the headline temperature spike or the spectacle of a heatwave, but a quieter, more...
A slowdown in core infrastructure sectors is often treated as a passing statistical blip. It rarely is. When the industries that power an economy ~...
Germany is discovering that economic strength alone cannot compensate for demographic decline. As its workforce ages and birth rates remain low, the...
When energy routes become battlefields, the global economy does not simply slow ~ it reorders itself. The current disruption centred on the Strait of...
When President Donald Trump announced a five-day halt to threatened strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, it appeared – at first glance-to...
More than a century after she broke into one of Britain’s most exclusive medical institutions, Jamini Sen is only now being restored to public...
When the United States Treasury Department authorises the sale of oil from Iran while simultaneously prosecuting a conflict against it, policy ceases...
India’s expanding piped natural gas network is often presented as a quiet urban success story ~ cleaner kitchens, cheaper transport fuel, and a...
In boardrooms from London to Bengaluru, hiring has quietly become an engineering problem. Faced with an avalanche of applications, companies are...
The US Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates steady is less a mark of confidence than an admission of constraint. Policymakers are...
India is not facing a jobs crisis in the conventional sense. It is facing a utilisation crisis ~ of talent, education, and aspiration. Each year,...
The killing of Ali Larijani is not just another episode in a widening shadow war; it signals a more consequential shift in how power may now be...
India is about to test a radical idea: can a country known as the world’s pharmacy also become its slimming clinic? The imminent arrival of low-cost...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
