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The Lahore smog isn’t Indian farmers’ fault alone. Pakistan should look within

The interesting thing about the ‘Lahore Smog’ is that the air pollution situation is neither limited to Lahore nor is it technically smog.

In Sri Lanka, Modi’s India must deal with reality as exists on ground, not as it wants it be

Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will wait and watch if India and US are coming closer together to take on the Chinese.

Can govt school students in India do better? This is what an experimental policy showed

With 75 per cent of schools in India being government owned and 65 per cent of children attending a government school, quality of government schools in India is a first order policy issue.

India need not fear Rajapaksa’s win and Sri Lanka’s embrace of China

New Delhi must be watchful but not necessarily too concerned about China angle in Sri Lanka. Colombo has the rationale, reason and space for engaging both.

Congress-Sena-NCP? Data shows parties forming unnatural alliances don’t dump ideologies

Long-standing alliances – Left Front in West Bengal, UDF in Kerala, Congress-DMK in Tamil Nadu – are all between ideologically similar allies.

Sonia, Mamata, Mayawati era receding. India is only grooming men as gen-next politicians

Indira days gone. Don’t count on Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman and Priyanka Gandhi to take the baton for women in Indian politics.

Modi’s new citizenship law will rip open the wounds of Partition

Muhammad Ali Jinnah would be proud of Narendra Modi.

Blame-games and band-aids: Delhi is a classic example of how not to fight air pollution

We are living through the doomsday. Perhaps, only aliens can save us now.

How China makes it possible for a German to study ancient Indian math in its university

China has wisely and energetically created new universities with a high standard of faculty recruitment at a global level in the past three decades of economic growth.

Jalebi or not, why MPs, including Gautam Gambhir, don’t have it easy

People had voted to elect Modi, and MPs were just a medium.

On Camera

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

India to start delivery of BrahMos missiles and launchers to Philippines tomorrow

India has completed storage-building space in one of the Philippines' islands as part of $374.96 million deal signed in January 2022.

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.