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Without choice

Nearly five years after Myanmar’s military seized power, the generals have returned to a familiar ritual: the ballot box. But this election, held...

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New Delhi

Editing the Future

India has quietly crossed a scientific threshold in its northernmost region. At a state agricultural university in Kashmir, researchers have...

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New Delhi

AI momentum: What lies ahead for India?

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI usage in India has evolved significantly in both scale and variety. Initially limited to business...

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Amit Kapoor And Mohammad Saad New Delhi

Greater Accountability

Several commentators and opposition leaders have sought to trivialize the reform undertaken for the rural employment guarantee scheme as a mere...

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Rajiv Kumar New Delhi

Tense Pause

After weeks of artillery fire, air strikes and mass displacement, the ceasefire along the Thailand-Cambodia border has brought a moment of...

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New Delhi

Armed forces must be ready on both fronts

The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on China titled ‘Military and Security Developments involving the People’s Republic of China,’...

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Harsha Kakar New Delhi

Rights or Relief

The decision to repeal a long-standing rural employment guarantee and replace it with a new framework has reopened a fundamental debate about how...

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New Delhi

Exit Khaleda, Enter Tarique!

A prominent figure in Bangladesh’s politics for more than forty years, BegumKhaleda Zia demise impact, political implications in Bangladesh, BNP...

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Shantanu Mukharji New Delhi

Bangladesh: The battle of the Begums has finally ended

The five-decade-old political rivalry of Bangladesh’s “battling Begums” has ended. In what can be considered a ‘draw’, Begum Khaleda Zia,...

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Mahendra Ved New Delhi

Trump and Putin

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post -2014 growing proximity to the United States is considered by some analysts to have created a sense of mistrust...

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Sitaram Sharma New Delhi

Beyond the glare

India’s solar story is often told as a clean break from a coal-heavy past: sunlight replacing smoke, rooftops turning blue, and power flowing...

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New Delhi

Strikes and Stories

The recent US air strikes in north-western Nigeria signal more than a tactical military action against jihadist groups; they reveal how global...

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New Delhi

A dangerous power grab

Pakistan’s political landscape has once again tilted sharply in favour of the military. The recently enacted 27th Constitutional Amendment ~ passed...

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Anand Kumar 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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