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America’s latest attempt to break Iran may expose the limits of economic power rather than demonstrate its reach. Washington has moved from bombs to...
The crisis at the top of the Tata Group is about far more than finding a successor to N Chandrasekaran. It exposes a deeper question confronting one...
The Democratic Party in America is confronting a political reality that cannot be dismissed as the latest quarrel between its progressive and centrist...
The reported cannabis finding involving an Air India pilot has arrived at precisely the wrong moment for a serious aviation investigation. An aircraft...
The United States has crossed a psychologically imposing threshold: $40 trillion in gross federal debt. The number is less important than what it...
India’s stock market is confronting a more consequential problem than a bad year on the charts. The deeper question is whether the country can...
India’s handling of the request for Sheikh Hasina’s extradition is becoming a test not merely of its relations with Bangladesh, but of whether New...
An alliance is a promise about the future. Its strength depends not only on weapons, troops and treaties, but on whether a partner can reasonably...
Britain’s response to Russia’s latest warning over British-made drones used in strikes inside Russian territory is more consequential than the...
A 16-day hunger strike ending after the Jharkhand government agreed to scrap a controversial recruitment examination may look like the conclusion of a...
India’s constitutional institutions are accustomed to being questioned by politicians, lawyers, activists and journalists. What should concern them...
The Pakistan Supreme Court’s order to move Imran Khan from prison to a hospital is about much more than the health of a former prime minister. It...
India’s next UPI debate should not be reduced to a simple question: should digital payments remain free? The more consequential question is whether...
Venezuela has reached a strange political moment. Nicolás Maduro is gone, yet the political system he built has not disappeared with him. Delcy...
Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan presents the world with an uncomfortable fact: a regime can be deeply repressive and still...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech was striking not simply because he spoke so much about India’s youth, but because of what...
An American President secretly abandoning Air Force One in a catering truck sounds like political theatre. In reality, it reveals something more...
For years, Nvidia and the giant cloud companies appeared to have a comfortable bargain. Nvidia supplied the processors that made artificial...
Colombia’s new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, had barely taken office when the ground shifted beneath his feet. Three days into his...
N Chandrasekaran’s decision not to seek another term as chairman of Tata Sons is being presented as a succession question. It is more consequential...
The next battle in mobile telecommunications may not be fought over more cell towers. It may be fought above them. That possibility has acquired new...
The end of Gautam Adani’s criminal prosecution in the United States is a legal victory for the Indian billionaire, but it is not quite the...
China may be exceptionally good at building the machines of the artificial-intelligence age. The harder question is whether its political and economic...
Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as a technology that writes, predicts, searches and reasons. A much less noticed development in...
India’s latest youth protests should worry every political party, not merely the government that happens to be facing them. The demonstrations in...
Maharashtra’s Ladki Bahin scheme raises a question that India’s political class can no longer avoid: when does welfare cease to be social...
For decades, Kashmir has been discussed in the vocabulary of conflict, security and politics. That is understandable given the region’s history. But...
The most dangerous word in the latest attempt to end the Gaza war may be “first”. Israel wants Hamas to disarm before Israeli forces withdraw....
The defence pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan marks a significant shift in the security politics of West Asia and South Asia. Its...
President Donald Trump’s public criticism of ExxonMobil and Chevron over their soaring profits marks an unusual moment in American energy politics....
For generations, the arrival of the southwest monsoon has been India’s closest equivalent to a national heartbeat. Farmers sowed crops, reservoirs...
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Sunday organised Raahgiri Day in the Central Zone (Karol Bagh) to promote road safety, cleanliness and...
For generations, ageing was associated with restraint. People slowed down, spent less, drank less, took fewer risks and gradually ceded social and...
The most revealing feature of The most revealing feature of India’s latest student mobilisation was not simply its scale or persistence. It was the...
Three months after the NEET paper leak shook the country’s examination system, public attention has understandably moved on. Investigations have...
Military strength is usually measured in terms of aircraft carriers, missiles and warplanes. Yet history repeatedly reminds us that geography can be...
Europe’s worst wildfire season in decades is more than a regional disaster. It is a warning that the age of climate extremes has moved beyond...
Economic growth is often judged by headline numbers like GDP, stock market indices, investment inflows and corporate profits. Yet the true test of any...
For decades, modern medicine has largely accepted a simple sequence: diagnose a congenital defect before birth, deliver the baby safely, and then...
For years, Bihar’s politics has revolved around familiar players, familiar alliances and familiar calculations. Bankipur suggests that the script...
The sea has always separated Africa from Europe. Today, however, the most dangerous crossing may begin not in the water but on a smartphone screen....
Governments often survive crises of policy. They find it much harder to recover from crises of perception. India’s recent student protests over...
The most important breakthrough in a conflict is often not when the guns fall silent, but when the combatants begin to accept that they cannot achieve...
Every election season in India produces an escalating contest of promises. Monthly cash transfers, free electricity, subsidised transport and a...
For much of the past three decades, the United States championed globalisation as the surest path to prosperity. Today, it is increasingly treating...
One of the most enduring measures of whether exchange rates make economic sense compares the price of the McDonald’s hamburger across countries. Its...
Faith has always been the greatest asset of India’s temples. Their towering spires, ancient rituals and growing revenues all rest on one invisible...
Anthony Fauci, the controversial infectious disease specialist who became the public face of America’s Covid-19 response, invoked the Fifth...
For years, India has measured its economic rise partly through its ability to attract foreign investment. That remains an important benchmark because...
The images from the recent student protests in Delhi have triggered a debate that extends well beyond one confrontation between demonstrators and the...
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