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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...
India has been given a number that should command attention: as many as 15,800 additional heat-related deaths could occur between September 2026 and...
India’s renewable-energy story is beginning to expose an uncomfortable truth: producing clean electricity is only half the transition. The other...
Indian cinema has long had a curious blind spot. A country celebrated for its extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity has nevertheless allowed...
Nearly three decades after Princess Diana’s death, the British monarchy remains confronted by the emotional and institutional consequences of a...
The Trump-Xi summit has demonstrated an important distinction in great-power diplomacy: reducing tension is not the same as resolving conflict....
Some of the most important relationships in life begin before we have any knowledge of them. That unsettling truth lies at the heart of the remarkable...
The reopening of Disha Salian’s death case is a test of whether India’s investigative institutions can revisit a deeply contested conclusion...
An Election Commission does not derive its authority merely from the power to conduct elections. Its legitimacy rests on a more delicate foundation:...
The significance of the Cockroach Janta Party may ultimately lie less in the government concessions it has extracted than in the expectations it has...
India’s financial markets are approaching a significant institutional milestone. The public listing of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) offers...
India’s expanding hospital infrastructure presents a paradox that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore. More hospitals, better diagnostic...
Germany’s fragile economic recovery is unfolding alongside a deepening crisis of political confidence. The latest state elections raise a question...
A parliamentary election can strengthen a government’s authority without necessarily demonstrating the breadth of its popular support. Russia’s...
India’s strategic predicament in the Himalayas is increasingly shaped by the deepening partnership between China and Pakistan. The...
The assault on two school students ~ a girl and a boy, both teenagers ~ in Bihar’s Jamui district is a test of more than policing. It challenges the...
The return of India’s hockey teams to their traditional blue jerseys at the Asian Games may look like a minor sporting correction. It is not. The...
The death of Surinder Koli, years after his arrest in the Nithari killings and months after his final acquittal, leaves behind a disturbing question:...
The emerging agreement between the United States and Denmark over Greenland may have eased a dangerous transatlantic confrontation, but it has also...
India’s democracy has no shortage of political parties. The more troubling question is whether every organisation carrying the legal identity of a...
Two September 11s offer two very different lessons for the world. On 11 September 1906, more than 3,000 Indians gathered at Johannesburg’s Empire...
India’s Russian oil purchases have exposed a contradiction in its economic diplomacy: the pursuit of affordable energy can strengthen national...
The world had begun to believe that the inflation crisis was receding. Central banks had reduced interest rates, supply chains had recovered and price...
The collision between Indian and Pakistani naval vessels in the Arabian Sea raises a question that extends beyond the immediate dispute over...
The struggle over the leadership of Tata Sons is more than a disagreement about the tenure of a chairman. It is a test of whether one of India’s...
India’s economy grew by a remarkable 7.8 per cent in the April-June quarter, comfortably exceeding expectations. Yet the celebration has been...
India’s most celebrated payments innovation is about to front an awkward question: who pays for convenience? From October 15, the National Payments...
The United States has acknowledged a development that could prove more consequential than the identity of the weapon involved: it has deployed a...
India’s digital payment revolution has produced a remarkable transformation: millions can now transfer money instantly with a phone, often without...
Britain’s constitutional argument has entered a more serious phase. The question is no longer simply whether Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland can...
India has long treated the Himalayas as scenery, frontier and source of water. It now needs to treat the majestic mountains as something more...
The most consequential warning about artificial intelligence may now be coming from the people most invested in building it. Dario Amodei, chief...
The Cockroach Janta Party has already achieved what few new political movements manage: it forced a powerful government to concede. The harder test is...
Earlier this year, the corridors of Bharat Mandapam buzzed with the phrase “populationscale impact” as the India AI Impact Summit brought together...
The most revealing thing about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest meeting with President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi may be what was left unsaid....
BRICS is becoming more significant at precisely the moment when it is becoming harder to say what it stands for. The New Delhi summit brought together...
The most consequential question raised by the turmoil at the Pentagon is not whether Pete Hegseth has the authority to remove senior military...
Five baby orangutans turning up in an Odisha forest should not be treated as an oddity of the animal kingdom. It is a warning about the reach of...
The killing of Manipuri guitarist Chongtham Vikram Singh in Delhi should not be allowed to become another crime story that briefly captures public...
Venezuela’s oil industry needs foreign capital, technology and competent management. Few would dispute that. After years of mismanagement,...
The most disturbing aspect of the latest revelations about child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Meta’s platforms is not that criminals have...
India should not need a celebrity bureaucrat to make the state enforce its own laws. Yet Tukaram Mundhe has become one precisely because, as...
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