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India could stand to gain from US-China trade war

Apparel and electronics manufacturers, for instance, have already started diversifying production to China’s rivals such as Vietnam and India.

India’s insurance industry has turned a blind eye towards people with disabilities

Upholding the right to health insurance last month, the Delhi HC removed ‘genetic conditions’ from the list of exemptions followed by insurance firms.

Debate over finance commission exposes south’s tendency towards misplaced entitlement

To ensure equity between the states, poorer states should receive a greater share of union tax revenues as compared to better off states.

Despite ball tampering, Steve Smith deserves compassion and sympathy

There is a feeling that Smith has been handled with kid gloves, and that his actions merit a harsher penalty. I do not agree with this.

Baba Ramdev just had his yoga mat pulled out from under him by 3D- Narendra Modi

India exhales in relief, now that Modiji is leading us into the heaven of fitness where the anti-national mind is with fear but the body is without backache.

Why the south-vs-north debate is a flawed way to analyse the 15th finance commission formula

If this argument of south-vs-north is followed through, a direct corollary would be to also oppose money flows from Bengaluru to Bidar or from Whitefield to south Bengaluru.

Narendra Modi, it is time for you to listen to the farmers’ mann ki baat

Selling crop at the government procurement mandis at officially mandated rates can best be described as a hurdle race for farmers.

Amit Shah is making southern states feel as if they are living off New Delhi’s generosity

The BJP chief’s pinch-hitting against southern states does no good to the Team India spirit that Modi speaks of.

What would have happened to Mahatma Gandhi in the times of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?

The artists and revolutionaries, scientists and poets, will break through the firewalls created by technocrats to control the world.

Ban Steve Smith for ball tampering, and do it right now

The Australian self-image is one of manly combativeness, in which all is fair. To them, the spirit of the game is for wussy lesser men. 

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

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.