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India likes to celebrate its diversity, but the everyday experience of many citizens from the Northeast tells a more uncomfortable story. In cities...
The return of aggressive tariff politics in Washington signals that global trade is once again entering a period of uncertainty. The decision by the...
When the Supreme Court allowed doctors to withdraw life-sustaining treatment for Harish Rana, a man who had remained in a vegetative state since a...
The attempted shooting of Dr Farooq Abdullah at a wedding reception in Jammu is more than a shocking moment of personal danger for an elderly...
West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Friday announced the constitution of five new cultural & development boards for Scheduled Tribe...
India’s defence procurement strategy is undergoing a quiet but consequential transformation. For decades after independence, New Delhi’s military...
The expanding conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States has already demonstrated a harsh reality about modern warfare: the most immediate...
Reliable macroeconomic statistics are fundamental to economic governance. Last year, the IMF, even while revising India’s GDP growth projections...
War in West Asia rarely feels distant in India’s kitchens. When tensions rise around the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the consequences...
Wars rarely produce clear winners, but they almost always produce opportunists. The escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel and...
The death of Iran’s long-time supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli air strikes aimed at crippling the country’s leadership, has triggered one...
The electoral surge of Balendra Shah, the rapperturned-mayor now poised to become Nepal’s youngest Prime Minister, represents more than an...
In India, marriage has long been treated as a one-way journey for women. Once a daughter leaves her parents’ home in a wedding procession, social...
The torpedoing of the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean is a stark reminder that distant wars rarely remain distant for India. When a US...
India’s emphatic triumph in the latest men’s T20 World Cup final in Ahmedabad is more than another trophy in an already crowded cabinet. It...
Wars in West Asia rarely remain distant events for India. The ongoing confrontation involving Iran, Israel and the United States is a reminder that...
When Sundararaman Ramamurthy, chief executive of the Bombay Stock Exchange, found himself apparently dispensing stock tips in a slick online video,...
When China’s leadership gathers in Beijing for the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress, the numbers announced are usually meant to...
In conservation, success stories are rare enough that they often sound improbable. Yet in Assam, the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros at...
When the United States enters another West Asia conflict, an old constitutional question returns: who decides when America goes to war? The latest...
When Jammu and Kashmir lifted the Ranji Trophy this season, it was not merely a cricket result; it was a quiet rewriting of a national narrative. For...
When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced his decision to seek election to the Rajya Sabha, it signalled more than the personal transition of a...
There is a massive infrastructure boom in India. These large scale and complex projects involve multiple stakeholders, from government to private...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to New Delhi this week, the symbolism extended far beyond diplomatic...
Wars in West Asia are often measured in missiles and maps. This one may ultimately be measured in barrels and basis points. The US-Israeli strikes on...
When a court rebukes India’s premier investigative agency as sharply as the Rouse Avenue court did last week, the verdict travels far beyond the...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Israel’s Knesset last week, one sentence stood out: “No cause can justify the murder of civilians....
On 5 March, nearly 19 million citizens of Nepal will vote to choose a new House of Representatives. The campaign rhetoric is full of promises ~ clean...
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli strike marks the most dramatic escalation in West Asian conflict in decades. For nearly...
London likes to think of itself as a city that layers history rather than erases it. You can walk from a glassy bank headquarters to a Georgian square...
A democracy does not teach civics by reciting hymns. It teaches by showing how power is meant to work ~ and how it sometimes fails. That is why the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel, his first since the Gaza war began, is being presented as a routine exercise in deepening a...
Europe’s energy map was supposed to be changing. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leaders in Brussels spoke of diversification, resilience, and...
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to the US Congress looked less like a governing report card and more like a campaign rally that...
When a small film from Manipur wins a major international award, it is tempting to read the moment as a feel-good story about recognition finally...
When a government hosts a global technology summit, it is making a promise: that it can match ambition with competence. India’s recent AI Impact...
Iran’s campuses have once again become political frontiers, and that alone says something essential about the country’s present moment. When...
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake is no ordinary event. It is the sort of seismic jolt that history remembers, one capable of reshaping coastlines and...