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Following the expiration of the defamation notice deadline issued by Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, to...
A sanctions bill moving through the US Congress would, if enacted, authorise punitive “secondary” trade measures ~ potentially including tariffs...
For a country that prides itself on treating cricket as both sport and soft power, India is surprisingly careless when it comes to separating the two....
For a country that has lived with dengue as a seasonal inevitability, the emergence of DengiAll, India’s indigenous single-shot dengue vaccine now...
The controversy over the notice issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is not really about a clerical error or an age mismatch. It is about the...
For decades, the 1962 war has occupied an awkward place in India’s national memory. It is recalled more for strategic failure than for individual...
India’s diplomacy in South Asia has often been accused of being overly personality-driven, tethered to familiar interlocutors and legacy...
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam does more than decide the fate of two undertrials. It exposes a...
Venezuela was not an aberration. It was a declaration. The forcible removal of Nicolás Maduro was presented as a corrective to criminality and...
The murder of a young man from the Northeast in a northern Indian city is not just a crime; it is a mirror held up to a society that still struggles...
India’s aviation boom has become a shorthand for its economic momentum. Passenger numbers are rising sharply, airports are expanding, and domestic...
The deaths linked to contaminated tap water in Indore are not merely a tragic municipal failure; they expose a deeper contradiction at the heart of...
The capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by the United States has forced the international community to confront an uncomfortable reality: the...
The renewed talk of peace in Ukraine carries an air of exhaustion rather than optimism. After years of attrition, all sides speak the language of...
The release of Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral rolls has done more than trigger routine political anxiety ~ it has revealed a structural disconnect...
It is not just elements on the fringes of the Bangladesh establishment who have threatened to exploit India’s vulnerability in the Siliguri...
US President Donald Trump’s decision to publicly shrug off China’s latest military drills around Taiwan may sound reassuring, but it masks a far...
Bastar Range Inspector General of Police P. Sundarraj said that 2025 marked a decisive turning point in the fight against Left-Wing Extremism in the...
India’s viral moments over the year gone by offer more than a light-hearted rewind of what trended online. Taken together, they reveal how the...
What the world is entering now is not a sudden crisis, but the moment when a long, uneven transition becomes impossible to ignore. The geopolitical...
India has quietly crossed a scientific threshold in its northernmost region. At a state agricultural university in Kashmir, researchers have...
Nearly five years after Myanmar’s military seized power, the generals have returned to a familiar ritual: the ballot box. But this election, held in...
After weeks of artillery fire, air strikes and mass displacement, the ceasefire along the Thailand-Cambodia border has brought a moment of stillness...
The decision to repeal a long-standing rural employment guarantee and replace it with a new framework has reopened a fundamental debate about how...
The recent US air strikes in north-western Nigeria signal more than a tactical military action against jihadist groups; they reveal how global...
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...
The sudden discovery of more than a million additional documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein does not merely extend a scandal; it reopens a fundamental...
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 in...
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...
The razor-thin outcome of Honduras’s presidential election reveals less about partisan strength than about the vulnerability of democratic...
The renewed debate over the Aravalli hills exposes a familiar fault line in India’s environmental governance: the tension between ecological...
Relations between India and Bangladesh are entering one of their most fragile phases in decades, not because of a single diplomatic dispute but due to...
The deaths of seven elephants on a railway track in Assam are not just a tragic accident; they are a stark reminder of how India continues to...
When ‘Babu’ and ‘Da’ become national issues, the voice of a 22-year-old Aurobindo Ghosh from Baroda can still be heard above the political din...
Global recognition has finally caught up with what Lucknow has long known about itself: that its food is not just cuisine, but culture carefully...
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...
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...
The latest inflation numbers from the United States offer a moment of relief in a debate that has been politically charged and economically fraught...
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...
The Himalayas, long revered for their sublime beauty and spiritual significance, are under siege ~ not by avalanches or blizzards, but by human...
India’s export map is quietly, but decisively, being redrawn. Recent data reveals a geographic rebalancing that goes beyond year-on-year...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The story of two entrepreneur brothers, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who built a celebrated nightlife brand in India is now overshadowed by tragedy and...
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...
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...
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...