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Sri Lanka’s cup of woes overflows as national politicians slug it out in the local elections

The acrimonious campaign for the local government elections indicates the end of the road for the government of ‘National Unity’ in Sri Lanka.

Wanted: A husband who’s an NRI and isn’t getting married to please his parents

One call in every 8 hours from an NRI wife is not just a few rotten apples. We only want to hear the feel-good stories of the Sundar Pichais and Satya Nadellas, the ones that made it big.

Amaravati is Naidu’s Neverland. It is yet to come out of glitzy PowerPoint presentations

True to his hi-tech image, Chandrababu Naidu asked people to donate e-bricks to the construction of Amaravati, each brick costing Rs. 10. The challenge now is to convert the virtual reality into reality, brick by brick.

The ‘psychological condition’ that binds Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal

Each of the three addresses himself in the third person. Psychologists, in fact, recognise this as a “condition”. It’s called illeism.

BJP will mollify NDA allies closer to 2019, when it risks getting a reduced majority

Nineteen states have NDA governments, but the partners have lost their bargaining power because the survival of Modi government does not depend on them.

‘Padman’ has started a welcome conversation about periods, but don’t ignore the bad news

In a country notoriously tight-lipped about menstruation, the topic of sanitary napkins, menstrual hygiene, waste disposal and even the taxation of sanitary pads has suddenly gone mainstream.

With new cracks in the judiciary, will politics reclaim its hold on Ayodhya issue?

The apex court, by directing the case to come up as a title dispute, which is a narrow legal facet of this case, has thus continued to manage the conflict.

General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, soldier of the mind who rewrote India’s military doctrine

On his death anniversary, a tribute to a visionary military leader mostly ahead of his time, mostly brilliant, and sometimes a bit reckless.

In Pakistan, everyone is saying China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was their idea

With the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Pakistan is giving safe transit services to China for very little in return.

Behind the Maldives meltdown: Unemployment, radical Islam, corruption and stifling of dissent

Even though the observers saw it coming, it was allowed to slide because Maldives is too small, too insignificant in the general scheme of things.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

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.