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The weakening of India’s institutions under Modi was last seen during Indira’s time

A well-ordered society that hopes to do well economically and by its citizens, has to strengthen its foundational institutions.

ICICI Bank’s love for its CEO is testing the limits

Chanda Kochhar showed a lack of judgment in not recusing herself from the committee that cleared the loan to Videocon. ICICI, with a history of prior bank runs, can't afford a leader who's in the news for all the wrong reasons. 

The first Dakota to land in Srinagar in 1947 and save the airfield will soon fly again

The refurbished Dakota, called ‘Parushurama’, bearing tail no VP 905 is now part of the IAF Vintage Flight. It will fly next week to Jamnagar.

Singapore Exchange’s nifty ‘giraffe’ beats India data ban by a neck

SGX is, in fact, turning the Nifty into a giraffe, which, as economist Hans Singer once famously quipped, is "difficult to describe, but you know one when you see one."

India’s first pilot to land on Siachen recounts how his life was saved by Army comrades

An Air Force officer recalls a ‘dangerous and stupid’ sortie he undertook on the world’s highest battlefield.

It’s more important what we say about the Kathua horror than whatever Modi or Rahul do

Kathua should scare the living daylights out of us, not because of what Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi said, or did not say, but for what it says about our capacity to feel shame.

Before you cheer Hadiya judgment, spare a thought for what it did not say

The ruling utterly fails to capture the hurdles -- both institutional and personal -- that Hadiya had to overcome for her “liberty” to be restored.

Surviving on milk powder and willpower, six Indian soldiers held a peak on Siachen for half a year

A general recounts the tale of how as a young captain, he and five soldiers manned a post on a peak 20,000 feet above sea level for six gruelling months.

It is time for India’s second liberalisation. Allow the states to grow as they will

The singularity of Indianness is that it works in the plural: You can be a good Muslim, a good Keralite and a good Indian all at once.

Siddaramaiah is saying to BJP: Stay away from my pie, else I’ll upset your apple cart

To believe the BJP will lose the support of Lingayats en masse because of a single decision is a reductionist understanding of how parties and caste groups are aligned in India.

On Camera

What’s shaping space race 2.0—minerals on Moon, human colonies, Helium-3

The Artemis Accords can be seen as an early American effort to shape the legal, technological, and policy frameworks governing access to, and use of, lunar resources.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.