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Ramanujan’s troubled nationalism

The same year as Asia’s first Nobel, an FA dropout clerk of the Madras Port Trust gathered courage to write to Prof. G. H. Hardy, who led the...

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Anamitro Biswas New Delhi

City records season’s lowest temperature as cold wave grips Bengal

As a biting northerly wind swept across West Bengal toward the end of December, intensifying winter conditions and steadily lowering temperatures...

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Kolkata

Toxic Delhi

Delhi’s air pollution is no longer a temporary crisis. It has become a regular and predictable condition. What should have triggered sustained...

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Subhas Chakravarty New Delhi

India and Nepal must repair ties

Recent youth protests in Nepal, set off by a ban on social media and discontent with corruption and economic inequality brought drastic changes in...

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Brabim Karki New Delhi

Return, reckoning

The return of Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh after nearly two decades in exile is more than a personal political comeback. It marks a decisive moment...

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New Delhi

Unfinished Justice

The sudden discovery of more than a million additional documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein does not merely extend a scandal; it reopens a...

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New Delhi

Narrow victory

The razor-thin outcome of Honduras’s presidential election reveals less about partisan strength than about the vulnerability of democratic...

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New Delhi

Test of intentions

Ukraine’s latest peace proposal marks a subtle but significant shift in how Kyiv is trying to end a war that has long defied clean diplomatic...

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New Delhi

Uphill battle underscores scribes’ role

On December 10, the year 2025 reached a murderous milestone. In 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) had recorded 126 journalists and...

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James Rodgers New Delhi

Defining Aravallis

The renewed debate over the Aravalli hills exposes a familiar fault line in India’s environmental governance: the tension between ecological...

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New Delhi

Labour codes must look at the invisible workers

The government’s decision to bring the four consolidated labour codes into effect from 21 November 2026 marks the most significant overhaul of...

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Satyaki Dasgupta And Basit Abdullah New Delhi

Fractured ties

Relations between India and Bangladesh are entering one of their most fragile phases in decades, not because of a single diplomatic dispute but due...

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New Delhi

Recalibrating MGNREGA

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G), which replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

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Gourav Vallabh New Delhi

A vital step to fuel power needs

India has pledged to increase its nuclear power capability from 8.8 GigaWatt today to 100 GigaWatt by 2047. When the attention of scientists turned...

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