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Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined...
President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined...
India’s emergence as a healthcare destination for South Asia is often measured in numbers: foreign patients treated, hospitals accredited, surgeries...
Every country counts its people. The real test lies in whether people are willing to be counted. India’s ongoing census will be the country’s...
Five years after Myanmar’s military seized power and plunged the country into a prolonged civil conflict, a new reality is emerging across Asia....
The controversy surrounding the Delhi Gymkhana Club is no longer only about one institution in Lutyens’ Delhi. What began as a dispute over a...
The smooth transfer of power in Karnataka has been hailed as a rare display of discipline in contemporary Indian politics. A chief minister resigned...
Every dowry death shocks the conscience. What is more troubling is how often such cases are explained away before the facts have been fully examined....
Every summer, India is reminded that climate change is no longer a future threat but a present reality. Yet the true measure of the crisis is not...
For much of the Indian Premier League’s history, Royal Challengers Bengaluru symbolised a familiar contradiction. It was one of the tournament’s...
India’s agricultural crisis is no longer confined to crop failures, debt burdens or volatile market prices. A quieter but more consequential...
The end of communist rule in Kerala marks more than an electoral setback for the Left. It signals the closing of a long chapter in Indian political...
India’s examination system is facing a crisis that goes far beyond marksheets, answer scripts or software glitches. What is now unfolding across...
The renewed exchange of strikes between the United States and Iran exposes the uncomfortable truth behind the language of ceasefires and diplomacy in...
India’s sharp rejection of the latest China-Pakistan joint statement on Kashmir was predictable. What deserves closer attention, however, is not the...
Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a technological story. It is becoming a labour-market story, a social-stability story and, increasingly, a...
For years, Saudi Arabia sold the world a vision that seemed to belong more to speculative fiction than economic planning. Mirror-walled cities...
The battle over Delhi Gymkhana Club is not really about a club. It is about what kind of capital city India wants to inhabit ~ one rooted in...
Diplomatic visits are rarely accidental. When America’s top diplomat chooses to begin an India tour not with a defence facility, technology summit...
For years, India’s economic narrative rested on a simple promise: the world’s fastest-growing large economy would inevitably become the natural...
For years, India’s economic story has rested on a comforting assumption: that strong domestic demand can insulate the country from global turmoil....
For decades, Cuba survived not because its economic model succeeded, but because its political system proved unusually durable under pressure....
As bulldozer action continued in Topsia on Sunday, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) issued notices to two more buildings in Beleghata allegedly...
The visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India has exposed a reality that both Washington and New Delhi increasingly understand but rarely...
India’s newest political symbol is not a flag, a clenched fist or a revolutionary slogan. It is a cockroach. That alone says something important...
The sharp exchange between an Indian diplomat and a Norwegian journalist in Oslo this week was not really about one question shouted at a Prime...
India’s food economy is entering a dangerous phase ~ not necessarily because adulteration is new, but because public trust is beginning to collapse...
For much of modern American history, the Republican Party prided itself on being a coalition of competing conservative traditions. Fiscal hawks,...
The most revealing aspect of President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Beijing was not the choreography of friendship, but the limits of it. China...
India’s inflation numbers are beginning to tell two very different stories. One is reassuring. The other is a warning. On paper, retail inflation...
For decades, the United States projected itself as the world’s foremost defender of rules-based governance. American regulators pursued corruption...
For decades, Bhutan cultivated a reputation unlike any other nation in South Asia. It projected itself as a kingdom that measured happiness over...
For decades, India has treated the rupee less as an economic instrument and more as a symbol of national prestige. Every fall against the dollar...
Authoritarian systems rarely collapse in the dramatic fashion imagined by outsiders. More often, they decay internally long before they visibly...
The World Health Organization’s decision to classify the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as an international public health emergency is not merely a...
For decades, Goa occupied a singular place in the global imagination. It was not merely a beach destination, but a cultural mood ~ inexpensive,...
For decades, West Bengal has lived on memory. The state that once led India in commerce, finance, manufacturing and intellectual life slowly ceded...
The crisis engulfing Britain’s Labour government is no longer merely about the future of the prime minister. It is rapidly becoming a referendum on...
For months, Washington and Tel Aviv projected the confrontation with Iran as a campaign designed to fundamentally alter the strategic balance in West...
Nepal’s new political establishment appears determined to redraw the rules of engagement with the outside world. The shift is subtle but...
US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing hoping to showcase deal-making. He left having showcased something else: the changing balance of global...
The Opposition’s problem is no longer merely ideological confusion or organisational weakness. It is increasingly a failure of political maturity....
Election victories create headlines. Debt creates governments’ destinies. Across India’s states, political transitions are increasingly colliding...
For years, the Congress high command has been accused of rewarding proximity over performance. In Kerala, however, the party appears to have...
For nearly two decades, Indian politics has steadily moved towards a welfare consensus. From cash transfers and subsidised food to free electricity...
India’s economic messaging has undergone a subtle but unmistakable shift over the past week. For years, governments celebrated rising consumption as...
The rhetoric surrounding the Iran conflict may still speak the language of ceasefires and negotiations, but the strategic reality points elsewhere....
India’s medical entrance examination crisis is no longer about one leaked paper, one compromised centre or one criminal network. It is about the...
Tamil Nadu has not merely elected a new chief minister. It has broken a political structure that appeared immovable for nearly six decades. The...
For the first time since the Ukraine war began, Moscow appears to be preparing its public not for escalation, but for transition. President Vladimir...
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