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Cannabis Shift

The recent executive order to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug represents a historic recalibration of drug policy in the...

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Cautious Solidarity

Europe’s decision to extend a Euro 90 billion loan to Ukraine, while stopping short of using frozen Russian assets, reveals a European Union that is...

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Measured Relief

The latest inflation numbers from the United States offer a moment of relief in a debate that has been politically charged and economically fraught...

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Citizenship on Trial

The forced removal of a pregnant Indian citizen to Bangladesh on mere suspicion exposes a dangerous erosion of due process at the heart of the...

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Everest in Peril

The Himalayas, long revered for their sublime beauty and spiritual significance, are under siege ~ not by avalanches or blizzards, but by human...

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Export Rebalance

India’s export map is quietly, but decisively, being redrawn. Recent data reveals a geographic rebalancing that goes beyond year-on-year...

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The First Ten

Pandemics do not begin with sirens or headlines. They begin with a cough that goes unreported, a fever mistaken for exhaustion, a worker who does not...

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Unequal Gains

India’s wealth story is increasingly told through a confusing set of headlines. On the one hand, the country is adding new dollar-millionaires at a...

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Silent Emergency

India’s roads kill with a predictability that should shame a modern state. Day after day, lives are lost not in dramatic, singular catastrophes but...

21.12.2025 20

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Rationing a Right

India’s rural employment story is not merely about jobs or budgets; it is about how the Indian state defines its obligations to its poorest...

21.12.2025 10

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Pahalgam Fallout

The filing of a detailed chargesheet on the Pahalgam massacre marks more than a procedural milestone in India’s counter-terrorism effort; it is a...

20.12.2025 10

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Called to account

The story of two entrepreneur brothers, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who built a celebrated nightlife brand in India is now overshadowed by tragedy and...

20.12.2025 10

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Conditional Peace

The latest round of diplomacy around Ukraine marks a subtle but consequential shift in how the war’s possible endgame is being framed. For the first...

19.12.2025 40

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Choking Normality

Delhi’s annual descent into a grey, choking winter is no longer an environmental anomaly; it is a predictable civic failure. Each year, the city...

19.12.2025 10

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Digital Borderline

The United States is preparing to widen its security net once again, this time by asking millions of prospective visitors to surrender five years of...

18.12.2025 10

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Defiant Return

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado’s sudden appearance in Oslo was not simply a personal triumph after months in hiding; it was a...

18.12.2025 10

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Heritage Reclaimed

When Prada unveiled a pair of luxury sandals whose braided leather pattern mirrored the Kolhapuri chappal, it triggered an unusually sharp public...

17.12.2025 10

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Broken Promise

Lionel Messi’s brief and chaotic appearance in Kolkata was not merely a case of crowd impatience or celebrity excess. It was a revealing moment...

17.12.2025 20

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Border of Distrust

The renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is a reminder that ceasefires, when imposed rather than earned, rarely outlast the pressure that...

16.12.2025 20

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AI for India

India has suddenly become the centre of global attention in artificial intelligence, not for producing the next OpenAI or DeepSeek, but for the sheer...

16.12.2025 10

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‘Rising Barriers’

Mexico’s sweeping decision to impose tariffs of up to 50 per cent on more than 1,400 imported products is more than a routine policy recalibration....

14.12.2025 40

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Uneasy vacuum

Bangladesh is headed into a February 12 election and a referendum on the July Charter, a proposal to rebalance and limit executive power as well as...

14.12.2025 20

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Housework Valued

India may have stumbled into one of its most consequential social experiments without fully intending to: paying women simply for being the invisible...

14.12.2025 20

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Fed in Flux

The latest interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve should have been a routine step in a predictable easing cycle. Instead, it has exposed the...

14.12.2025 10

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Fragile Firewalls

Australia’s decision to bar under-16s from social media is rooted in an anxiety that now spans continents: parents feel they are losing the battle...

13.12.2025 10

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Defining Citizenship

The United States is once again confronting a question that cuts to the heart of its democratic self-understanding: who belongs, and on what terms?...

13.12.2025 10

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The first instalment of freedom

At 5 a.m., a vast segment of India’s workforce begins its day. There are no punch-ins, no holidays, no salary slips, and crucially no mention in the...

13.12.2025 30

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Uneasy Waters

The latest Congressional briefings on the US military’s September boat strike in the Caribbean reveal a troubling truth: even as new details...

12.12.2025 10

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Balancing aviation

India’s aviation crisis with Indigo did not emerge from a single trigger. It was the result of two systems ~ an airline operating at the edge of...

12.12.2025 10

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Peace without trust

The recent diplomatic flurry ~ marked by talks in Moscow between US envoys and Russia, followed by a three-day session in Florida between US and...

11.12.2025 9

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Visa roadblocks

The latest move by Washington to tighten screening for H-1B visa applicants marks a sharp turn in the way the United States is redefining its...

11.12.2025 10

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Inferno of Neglect

The fire that tore through a popular nightclub in Goa on the weekend is more than a local tragedy, it is a national reckoning. Twenty-five lives, most...

10.12.2025 10

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Balancing Growth

The Reserve Bank of India’s latest policy decision marks a subtle but important shift in the country’s economic management. By reducing the repo...

10.12.2025 9

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Crisis deepens

For more than a decade now, Delhi has lived with the strange normalcy of poisoned air. As winter approaches, the capital braces itself for a familiar...

09.12.2025 10

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Cosmic puzzle

India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that...

09.12.2025 10

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Under Strain

The rupee drifting beyond the 90-per-dollar mark is not merely another data point in the market’s daily churn. It is a marker of a deeper unease...

08.12.2025 10

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Strategic Signals

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi was choreographed to convey a message that went far beyond ceremonial optics. India laid out a...

08.12.2025 8

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Cross currents

Israel’s announcement that the Rafah crossing will soon reopen for Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza has been framed as a gesture of support for...

07.12.2025 10

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A line crossed

India’s brief experiment with forcing a state-run cybersecurity app ~ the Sanchar Sathi App ~ onto every new smartphone has revealed a deeper...

07.12.2025 10

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Unfinished Peace

The newest diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine exposes a paradox at the heart of the current moment: negotiations are speeding up, yet the road...

06.12.2025 10

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Judging Language

A new study examining 75 years of constitutional bench verdicts has opened an uncomfortable but necessary conversation: India’s highest court, even...

06.12.2025 6

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Equatorial Fury

The deadly floods sweeping through Indonesia since last week mark a sobering moment for a region long accustomed to the monsoon’s moods but rarely...

05.12.2025 10

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Finding his voice

Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip was never going to be a routine pastoral visit. The geographies he chose, Turkey and Lebanon, are not only...

05.12.2025 10

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Toxic Force

The allegations emerging from Georgia’s 2024-25 protest wave are not merely another chapter in the long, bitter contest between an embattled...

04.12.2025 10

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Solar Vigilance

India’s Sun-watching spacecraft is about to face the moment it was built for. In 2026, the solar cycle will crest, the Sun will flip its magnetic...

04.12.2025 20

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Pardon Politics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal for a presidential pardon is more than a personal legal manoeuvre. It is a political act with...

03.12.2025 20

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Breathless Children

Each winter, as a dense grey veil settles over Delhi, the familiar rituals begin. Schools scramble to adjust timetables, construction sites fall...

03.12.2025 10

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Naming Femicide

Italy’s unanimous vote to make femicide a distinct crime is a rare moment of national consensus ~ and a striking acknowledgment that violence...

02.12.2025 10

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Centenary Spotlight

Ahmedabad’s confirmation as host of the 2030 Commonwealth Games marks a turning point not just for the event itself, but for India’s broader...

02.12.2025 8

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Taxing Balance

Rachel Reeves’s latest Budget attempts something British chancellors before her rarely managed with conviction: mixing fiscal restraint with visible...

01.12.2025 10

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