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Germany’s political establishment has spent years treating Alternative für Deutschland as a problem that could be contained by isolation....
India’s ambitions of becoming a global digital power rest on an infrastructure paradox. The country has embraced cheap data, built one of the...
Great-power rivalry is usually measured in aircraft carriers, tariffs and missiles. Increasingly, however, one of its most consequential battlefields...
For decades, India worried about having too many people. Population control, family planning and the spectre of unchecked demographic growth shaped...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s most consequential electoral victory may not require him to win Israel’s forthcoming parliamentary election. That paradox...
The collapse of building housing students in Delhi’s Satya Niketan should not be treated as another entry in India’s long catalogue of urban...
India’s latest GDP growth figure has delivered precisely the kind of political dividend that impressive headline numbers are meant to produce. At a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s greatest problem may no longer be winning the war in Ukraine. It may be finding a way to stop it. More than four...
The catastrophic floods in Nepal should end a dangerous illusion in India: that Himalayan disasters can be neatly contained within national borders or...
Silicon Valley has built a vast economic edifice on an assumption that remains surprisingly untested: that once artificial intelligence becomes...
Few individuals have occupied the centre of Indian politics for as long while revealing as little of themselves as Sonia Gandhi. For nearly three...
For more than a century, the idea of a vaccine against cancer has occupied an uncertain space between scientific ambition and medical fantasy. Cancer...
A hundred days is too short to judge a government, but long enough to understand its instincts. By that measure, the BJP’s first months in power in...
A jewellery advertisement featuring actor Kriti Sanon has been withdrawn after criticism over her clothes while celebrating Rakshabandhan. What might...
Dolly Parton’s death leaves America with an uncomfortable question: what happens to a public culture when almost every prominent figure is expected...
India’s eagerness to host Tarique Rahman is about more than diplomatic courtesy. It reflects a harder reality: New Delhi has lost the strategic...
The Democratic Party in America is confronting a political reality that cannot be dismissed as the latest quarrel between its progressive and centrist...
The reported cannabis finding involving an Air India pilot has arrived at precisely the wrong moment for a serious aviation investigation. An aircraft...
The United States has crossed a psychologically imposing threshold: $40 trillion in gross federal debt. The number is less important than what it...
India’s stock market is confronting a more consequential problem than a bad year on the charts. The deeper question is whether the country can...
India’s handling of the request for Sheikh Hasina’s extradition is becoming a test not merely of its relations with Bangladesh, but of whether New...
An alliance is a promise about the future. Its strength depends not only on weapons, troops and treaties, but on whether a partner can reasonably...
Britain’s response to Russia’s latest warning over British-made drones used in strikes inside Russian territory is more consequential than the...
A 16-day hunger strike ending after the Jharkhand government agreed to scrap a controversial recruitment examination may look like the conclusion of a...
India’s constitutional institutions are accustomed to being questioned by politicians, lawyers, activists and journalists. What should concern them...
The Pakistan Supreme Court’s order to move Imran Khan from prison to a hospital is about much more than the health of a former prime minister. It...
India’s next UPI debate should not be reduced to a simple question: should digital payments remain free? The more consequential question is whether...
Venezuela has reached a strange political moment. Nicolás Maduro is gone, yet the political system he built has not disappeared with him. Delcy...
Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan presents the world with an uncomfortable fact: a regime can be deeply repressive and still...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech was striking not simply because he spoke so much about India’s youth, but because of what...
An American President secretly abandoning Air Force One in a catering truck sounds like political theatre. In reality, it reveals something more...
For years, Nvidia and the giant cloud companies appeared to have a comfortable bargain. Nvidia supplied the processors that made artificial...
Colombia’s new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, had barely taken office when the ground shifted beneath his feet. Three days into his...
N Chandrasekaran’s decision not to seek another term as chairman of Tata Sons is being presented as a succession question. It is more consequential...
The next battle in mobile telecommunications may not be fought over more cell towers. It may be fought above them. That possibility has acquired new...
The end of Gautam Adani’s criminal prosecution in the United States is a legal victory for the Indian billionaire, but it is not quite the...
China may be exceptionally good at building the machines of the artificial-intelligence age. The harder question is whether its political and economic...
Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as a technology that writes, predicts, searches and reasons. A much less noticed development in...
India’s latest youth protests should worry every political party, not merely the government that happens to be facing them. The demonstrations in...
Maharashtra’s Ladki Bahin scheme raises a question that India’s political class can no longer avoid: when does welfare cease to be social...
For decades, Kashmir has been discussed in the vocabulary of conflict, security and politics. That is understandable given the region’s history. But...
The most dangerous word in the latest attempt to end the Gaza war may be “first”. Israel wants Hamas to disarm before Israeli forces withdraw....
The defence pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan marks a significant shift in the security politics of West Asia and South Asia. Its...
President Donald Trump’s public criticism of ExxonMobil and Chevron over their soaring profits marks an unusual moment in American energy politics....
For generations, the arrival of the southwest monsoon has been India’s closest equivalent to a national heartbeat. Farmers sowed crops, reservoirs...
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Sunday organised Raahgiri Day in the Central Zone (Karol Bagh) to promote road safety, cleanliness and...
For generations, ageing was associated with restraint. People slowed down, spent less, drank less, took fewer risks and gradually ceded social and...
The most revealing feature of The most revealing feature of India’s latest student mobilisation was not simply its scale or persistence. It was the...
Three months after the NEET paper leak shook the country’s examination system, public attention has understandably moved on. Investigations have...
Military strength is usually measured in terms of aircraft carriers, missiles and warplanes. Yet history repeatedly reminds us that geography can be...
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