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Petrol price hikes may annoy you, but cheap oil is not helping climate

Relatively low prices are making consumers less apt to do their share to reduce emissions by buying vehicles that use less fuel – or none at all.

Just exactly where is the Final Frontier in space anyway?

Who gets to decide where space begins? The boundary shouldn’t be an arbitrary one.

No kidding, you really are slowly turning into your parents

Studies show humans become more like their biological parents & other family members as they get older.

China faces its eternal dilemma again: Push growth or cut debt?

China’s top leaders meet this week in Beijing to set economic policy objectives for the coming year. The central question is whether they will...

Pakistani TV, plays and movies can’t get enough of Imran Khan & the dam song

Imran Khan is the latest product placement trend in Pakistan.

Why Ghanaians are removing Gandhi statues

Best way to commemorate Gandhi in his 150th-year would be to critically examine him — not just garland and worship him.

Lawsuits against Johnson&Johnson aren’t going away

J&J faces major liability risk from lawsuits over a possible link between asbestos in its talc products and cancer.

Why Hindutva polarisation is no longer earning electoral dividends for BJP

Yes, Rahul Gandhi’s temple visits are helping.

BJP has to learn to befriend the kingmakers of 2019

Regional parties will guard their turf assiduously by not yielding their space to either of the two national parties.

Modi, after all, had no solution to the poor and nasty lives of most Indians

Five years on, the reality hasn't changed for young Indians. Subsidies and hand-outs are all that they've got.

On Camera

University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.