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I've said it before and I'll say it again for the doubtful benefit of this hearing-impaired government — putting old wine in new bottles...
A social media post by US President Donald Trump demanding Iran’s “unconditional surrender” has sharpened questions about whether the United...
If a country secures an advantageous trade agreement with another, one might would normally chuckle. However, if a distinguished scholar from the...
Nepal’s general election on 5 March is being held at a time when the geopolitical weather is heavy and uncertain. This is not just another round in...
There are things that this nation is agitated about, and there is real news. One of the things we are agitated about — in our media and WhatsApp...
Epstein who? Emails when? Meetings where? Every era produces its own prophets, who inscribe their wisdom on our digital walls; the year 1 AE (After...
National Science Day, observed annually on 28 February to mark C.V. Raman’s discovery of the Raman Effect, honours India’s enduring faith in...
On 23 February 2026, Rashtrapati Bhavan was the site of another brazen act of cultural vandalism: the bust of Edwin Lutyens, principal architect of...
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has introduced a new chapter in Class 8 textbooks addressing corruption in the...
A month after India and the US ‘agreed’ on a trade deal that was practically dictated by the US President, three weeks after the salient points...
When Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi met Uttarakhand gym owner Deepak Kumar — the man who came to be known as 'Mohammad...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) landslide victory in the recent elections may just be the beginning of a protracted face-off with the...
With the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) winning a decisive two-thirds majority and Tarique Rahman sworn in as prime minister, the country has, for...
India’s fiscal federalism runs on a deceptively simple bargain: the Union collects most broad-based taxes while the states carry the frontline...
Title: How Robots Stole Our Jobs: Struggles of Suzuki Workers in the Age of AI Author: Nandita Haksar Publisher: Aakar Books Artificial intelligence...
Nearly four decades ago, in a small village in north Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Malappuram district, a coconut tree became an unlikely symbol of...
The Bharatiya Janata Party has been governing Gujarat continuously for almost 30 years now. Notionally, Gujarat is a two-party state, but the Congress...
Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has finally ended his silence on the Indo-US trade deal. On 17 February, Chouhan — who only last...
There’s resistance in a state where a saffron scarf is a licence to assault — or even kill. Where a complaint from a BJP functionary is enough to...
Indian businessman and alleged drug trafficker Nikhil Gupta (54) — arrested in 2023 and presently in detention in New York — has pleaded guilty...
Six-and-a-half years after Jeffrey Epstein, 66 at the time, allegedly took his own life in a prison in New York, correspondence, photographs, logs and...
‘Disruptions caused by Artificial Intelligence are coming sooner than we think’ was the message that came out of the AI Impact Summit in Delhi on...
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again urged Hindu families to have at least three children, citing concerns over the declining Hindu population in...
The letter signed by 14 former international cricket captains in support of more humane treatment of, and medical attention to, Imran Khan has...
Despite being far away from the hustle and bustle of the ongoing T20 World Cup in Kolkata, Mohammed Shami still ensured that he became the talking...
He had heard of ‘frameworks’ for an agreement. And he’d heard of ‘interim agreements’. But would someone please explain what a ‘framework...
Late on Thursday evening, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders exuded confidence. “Ground reports from the districts and certificates issued...
There is always a shortage of nationalism in our country, because there seems to be so much demand for it. In all of my decades I had not known of a...
As diplomats negotiate ceasefires, donor conferences pledge billions for reconstruction and security strategists sketch out stabilisation plans, there...
Preservation and protection of the natural environment has never been a priority in our annual Budgets; ALL Finance Ministers have taken it for...
When the country’s first Lok Sabha convened in 1952, Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was elected its Speaker. Many addressed G.V. Mavalankar with...
In the first essay of this series on the swadharma or inner life of the Indian Republic, we reflected on sarva dharma sambhava or secularism. We now...