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President Lula da Silvas election to a fourth presidential term exposes Brazils central political dilemma: a clear electoral outcome in a deeply...
Britain’s elites schools are turning to India, bringing celebrated names and centuries-old traditions into a market shaped by rising incomes and...
When governments face dissent, blaming outsiders can be more convenient than confronting the grievances at home. India’s latest unrest has revived...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Jamnagar highlights an emerging reality in India-US relations: energy infrastructure has become a...
Jio Platforms’ entry into the stock market marks a significant moment in the evolution of Indian capitalism. Built by Mukesh Ambani, the company has...
India’s emergence as a supplier of human-generated data for artificial intelligence presents an economic opportunity, but also a familiar danger:...
The pursuit of peace in Ukraine risks becoming an exercise in diplomatic theatre if the principal parties mistake the willingness to negotiate for a...
The greatest danger in the digital age may not be the invention of new ways to attack computer systems, but the discovery of weaknesses that have...
Immigration policy is an exercise of national sovereignty, but its consequences extend far beyond government offices and corporate hiring decisions....
The detention of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), followed by their release after a week in custody, raises questions that extend...
The shooting attempt on actor Tiger Shroff has revived an uncomfortable question about Mumbai: can a city that symbolises India’s commercial and...
Nineteen deaths at a Durga Puja pandal have shattered an assumption that generations of Kolkatans took for granted: that the city’s greatest annual...
The Himalayas pose a stark test for India and China: can strategic rivals cooperate when inaction threatens lives, livelihoods and regional security?...
President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine into halting attacks on Russian oil refineries risks producing an outcome opposite to the stated...
The award of the 2026 economics Nobel to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford recognises a body of research that has transformed how central banks...
Bangladesh’s engagement with China is not inherently a threat to India, nor should Dhaka be expected to subordinate its economic choices to New...
Pakistan’s attempt to tighten its grip on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exposes a familiar contradiction in the country’s political order: the state invokes...
The meeting between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay highlights a pressing challenge...
National Highway 148A, in its original form, connects Delhi to Gurgaon through what is known as the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road. It is one of a handful of...
A democracy’s freedoms depend not merely on constitutional guarantees, but on whether those guarantees can be enforced when the government finds...
The US midterm elections on November 3 will test whether President Donald Trump’s political dominance can survive the consequences of his own...
The growing prominence of women in Delhi’s protests signals more than another episode of student unrest or opposition mobilisation. It reflects a...
India’s manufacturing ambitions have survived successive disappointments. Now, stronger industrial growth and rising exports offer fresh grounds for...
The renewed rise in American inflation exposes the fragility of economic stability and threatens President Donald Trump’s promise to make life more...
India takes understandable pride in the achievements of its diaspora. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to laboratories and universities, professionals...
India’s foreign portfolio investment story is becoming less comfortable than the headline numbers suggest. The important issue is not simply that...
The Black Sea is becoming a test of how far a regional war can spread without drawing neighbouring states into direct confrontation. Repeated drone...
A democracy is tested not when its institutions enjoy public confidence, but when citizens challenge them. The escalating confrontation in Delhi over...
India’s festive economy depends on more than consumer confidence. It also rests on the affordability of the ingredients, gifts and rituals through...
India’s emerging satellite internet market presents a test of whether the country can reconcile national security commercial competition and the...
The Trump administration’s action against Microsoft and seven other technology companies exposes a fundamental contradiction in America’s economic...
The response to the Cockroach Janta Party’s protests exposes a deeper democratic problem: when young people lose faith in institutions, suppressing...
Europe is being forced to confront an uncomfortable reality: the next major security crisis may not begin with tanks crossing a border. It may begin...
An execution is designed to leave no uncertainty. The state announces a death sentence, prepares a procedure intended to cause death, administers the...
Nana Patekar’s death marks the passing of an actor who never quite fitted the conventional idea of a Bollywood star. He was not built around...
Harmanpreet Kaur’s departure from the captaincy of India’s women’s cricket team is an awkward decision precisely because it comes at the wrong...
India’s economy may be expanding at a pace that commands global attention, but its stock market is telling a less comfortable story. The divergence...
India’s electoral democracy is entering a new phase in which the most consequential decisions about voting may be made not at the polling station...
The deepest significance of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine lies not simply in what Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg...
The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to raise the repo rate to 5.5 per cent marks more than a routine adjustment in the price of money. It signals a...
India does not have a road safety problem. It has a road safety catastrophe. Every three minutes, someone dies on its roads. This is a country with...
Brazil’s presidential election has entered its decisive phase with a result that says as much about the country’s political transformation as it...
India’s 2026 monsoon should not be judged simply by the national rainfall deficit. The more consequential fact is that the monsoon has once again...
The global energy crisis has entered a revealing new phase. The G7’s decision to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and diesel from strategic...
India’s Election Commission was created to ensure that political competition does not become a contest over who controls the machinery of the...
The treatment of women journalists at a political protest is not a peripheral matter of crowd control. It goes to the heart of the relationship...
India’s foreign exchange reserves have crossed an important threshold ~ not because their absolute level is inadequate, but because the speed at...
Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law raises a question considerably larger than whether the State should prevent people from being coerced into...
The crisis facing journalism is often described as a crisis of business, technology or public trust. It is all three. But beneath them lies a more...
Nepal has done something important at the United Nations: it has tried to turn a natural disaster into a political argument about the unequal costs of...