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Smarter attire, youngish lingo and contemporary music—from rap to rock—is unlikely to impress Gen Z, which is gearing up to play a significant...
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was launched in India in April 2016 with 21 members banks. The objective was to make digital payments as easy and...
Water connects us in ways few other resources do. Rivers do not recognise administrative boundaries, aquifers may sustain several communities, and...
I must have been nine or ten when my father dragged us along to watch a play whose title I could not yet pronounce: Aashadh Ka Ek Din, staged at the...
India just pulled off something remarkable: Eight of its universities ranked highly on PitchBook’s 2026 list of the world’s top 100 institutions...
India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar said in Ahmedabad earlier this month that problems related to exclusion of names in the...
One thing that does not change in India is the bleeding hearts whose soft souls continue to cry for those less fortunate. Thirty years ago, they were...
Eight decades ago, US President Harry S Truman faced a decision that would change the nature of warfare forever. Japan was still fighting after the...
The right to vote is one of the fundamental pillars of an electoral democracy such as India’s. However, to truly represents popular will, the right...
Such is the depth of political, social, and economic uncertainty in Europe, and such is the scale of the US’s failure as a global power, that a...
The 2026 Delhi summit of BRICS has been under a spotlight this weekend, and things under a spotlight tend to look bigger and brighter than they...
Days after the consecration of the BAPS—or, to use its full name, the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha—temple in a Parisian...
BRICS has come of age, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his address at the 18th summit of the grouping, hosted in New Delhi over the weekend. It...
Last week, while addressing India’s Gen Z and Gen Alpha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to speak in Hindi. He could have chosen Gujarati, as the...
When the West Asia war started in February and Iran subsequently shut traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, analysts described it as the biggest ever...
Russia brings to the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi something few other partners can claim: a relationship with India that has repeatedly adapted to...
The BRICS summit comes at a particularly important time for India. Even as there is turmoil around the world, its fast-paced economic growth and...
The ongoing BRICS summit in New Delhi has reaffirmed the significance of the grouping for Global South cooperation, and its impact on development,...
If a country has oil and gas reserves, must it drill for it? At a time when the conflict in West Asia has hotted up again, and crude oil prices are...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to India in seven years and his bilateral with Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi is understandably going...
As India hosts BRICS’s 18th summit, the grouping’s true significance sits somewhere between the hype and the scepticism surrounding it. The need...
For millions of people across BRICS countries, the electric vehicle (EV) transition will not begin with a car from a showroom. It will begin on a bus...