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The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act of 2026 should be seen not merely as a fiscal or regulatory amendment, but as an...
After the new US Administration took office in 2025, the policies announced signalled that the old global economic order had ruptured. The post-World...
India’s conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominated by two questions: How many jobs will it destroy and by how much can AI raise...
At the recent ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference in Manila, the foreign ministers of the ten ASEAN countries and China signed a joint statement on the...
About two-thirds into Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai, Shalini (Preity Zinta) takes Akash (Aamir Khan) for an opera show. It is the Greek tragedy of...
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed a defence agreement on August 7 in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, stating that an attack against any of the...
The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026, recently passed by the Lok Sabha, should be judged not by the shortcomings of earlier experiments but by whether it...
The Latin phrase a posse ad esse (moving from possibility to reality) captures something essential about how societies construct human capital. Formal...
Every monsoon, India watches Assam disappear beneath water. Images of submerged villages, rescue boats navigating inundated roads, families taking...
The Delhi High Court’s interim order in ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI OPCO LLC (2026) refusing injunctive relief, may be a precursor to recasting...
Every weekday morning, children who still need help tying shoelaces walk to school bent under expedition-sized school bags. Inside are textbooks,...
If you felt that your salary has been stagnating over the past few years, there is now data from the income tax filings that turns the feeling into a...
Lived reality always finds a way to catch up with political rhetoric. In February 2021, Myanmar’s youth protested a military coup that eventually...
Every endocrinologist has encountered this conversation. “Doctor, I’ve put on 12 kilos because of my thyroid.” Or this one: “My thyroid tests...
I write today as a parent to two Generation Z (Gen Z) individuals, as a witness to the current protests, somewhat cognizant of the challenges facing...
The outlook on prices has yo-yoed in recent months — first rising, then falling and then rising again. Crude oil prices were easing before the...
India’s ethanol blending programme (EBP) has become one of the country’s more visible energy security interventions. Launched in 2014 to cut crude...
The India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) was recently held in the University town of Aix en Provence where my French counterpart and I...
There are inheritances that do not come as wealth or possessions but as values, stories, and a sense of duty passed from one generation to the next....
Head: A shorter tax statute is not always a simpler tax law India’s Income Tax Act, 2025 has been celebrated as one of the most significant...
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently announced that she will return to Dhaka by December this year. “They may arrest me on my...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the 10th-century Prambanan Temple dedicated to Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, on the last day of the...
“I would not be here without his statesmanship. He is a great military leader, but I think he has shown himself to be a great diplomat,” said US...
Over the last few days, the Indian classical dance fraternity has voiced outrage over actor Ananya Pandey’s dance in the movie, Chand Mera Dil....
On a tiny island in the Baltic Sea, with the cool winds of the peaceful sea brushing against my face, I found myself thinking of home. Of Bengal. Of...
India’s states are often criticised for chronically underinvesting in health. Yet, Delhi has long stood apart, consistently allocating one of the...
One of the most important ideas in Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech last August was the call for a new wave of reform...
On Sunday, April 26, Ukraine and the world will mark 40 years since the Chornobyl disaster — the worst accident in the history of civilian nuclear...
Multilateralism is not easy, but it is indispensable for meeting the world’s greatest challenges. When a problem is global in its origins and global...
Transit-oriented development (TOD) rests on three fundamentals: Density, diversity, and design. A good TOD neighbourhood is dense enough to support...
At a moment when tensions in the Gulf are once again rising — marked by instability in the Strait of Hormuz and the stalling of US–Iran diplomacy...
Even as Gen Z appears to have intuitively decided posting online is passé and India ponders social media bans, courts in the US have taken a strong...
It has become fashionable to criticise the US for its recent conduct toward Iran. This is not an attempt to defend or rationalise the US’s actions....
In the long arc of India’s political journey, the socialist movement led by Ram Manohar Lohia and later galvanised by Jayaprakash Narayan (JP),...
In The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert describes what some scientists have called a “madness gene”, a human tendency to pursue short-term...
It was June 1975. Women political leaders, parliamentarians, activists, and NGOs came together in Mexico City at the First UN Conference for Women to...
To many observers, Noida’s industrial unrest appears to have come as an “out-of-syllabus” surprise. Workers have come out in protest against...
Bihar is entering a new political era. After decades, the BJP has managed to install its own leader as chief minister (CM) — the new CM, Samrat...
Today, there is music in the midst of desolation. In the scarred, whispering forests of Chhattisgarh, brave souls like my father fell like sacred rain...
I am delighted to extend my traditional New Year greetings to all in India and around the world on the occasions of Baisakhi, Rongali Bihu, Maha...
April 13 marks the death anniversary of Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, who passed away in 1982. Mandal chaired the commission whose report laid the...
When President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran on April 7, 2026 — barely 90 minutes before his own military strike deadline...
It is not often that middle-school civics sparks judicial controversy. The recent banning of a civics textbook by the Supreme Court, however, has...
In the coming days, India will be immersed in a festive season, with celebrations taking place across the length and breadth of the nation. The people...
Election season is here with gender friendly promises galore. These offerings are easy to dismiss as sops offered in exchange for votes. But political...
Pakistan’s conflict with Afghanistan has gone under the radar after the war in West Asia gained centre stage. The long-simmering conflict between...
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 was passed despite much furore by the Opposition in both houses of Parliament and...
India stands at a moment of extraordinary opportunity — to reshape its legislatures, elevate women’s leadership, and build a democracy that truly...
When India stepped into freedom in the autumn of 1947, democracy was deemed by many to be a doomed project — nowhere had such an impoverished...
US President Donald Trump’s speech early Thursday (India time) reiterated many of his earlier threats to Iran while offering the American public his...
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