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Why is our Holi playlist still stuck with Balam Pichkari? It’s 13 years already

The last decade has been an exercise in exhausting YouTube, searching for that one crackling Holi banger.

HBO ‘Industry’ gives us women in finance who raise hell

American Psycho gave us Patrick Bateman. In HBO's Industry, Yasmin Kara-Hanani, played by Marisa Abela, channels convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein's former partner Ghislaine Maxwell.

Regime change is a pipe dream. A stress test on Iran is what we’ve got so far

In 2017, Tehran unveiled a “Doomsday Clock” counting down to Israel’s supposed disappearance by 2040. Today, however, Iran stands cornered.

India-Iran ties were always more promise than reality. Real risk for us is a distracted US

Iran becomes an added concern for India because Trump could have one more reason to lose focus.

AAP liquor case points to what is missing in India. Accountability

Who is responsible for the years that Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, and Vijay Nair lost? For the choked governance that Delhi faced for three years?

Khamenei’s assassination—what did US achieve by ripping up international law

Even if Narendra Modi is too petrified to take a stand, the Congress and Sonia Gandhi have rightly criticised this outright violation of international norms.

India’s risks in the Iran conflict go way beyond oil

Exports to the UAE, Gulf remittances and shipping are at risk as the Strait of Hormuz is closed. A weaker rupee, and soaring gold liabilities could stoke inflation.

Why RBI’s draft rules aren’t enough to curb mis-selling of financial products

For too long, sales misconduct has been treated as an operational issue created by overzealous relationship managers. The elevation of the issue to the board level signifies that mis-selling is a governance failure.

5 reasons to lower eligibility age for taking civil services exam. UPSC needs young people

Those who join beyond the age of 30 have limited chances of making it to the apex scale, irrespective of the service they join.

Delhi, Mumbai houses have reached Goa. They are grand, loud, and not Portuguese

Every once in a while, the quiet luxury restraint favoured by the ‘outsider’ owners of modern Goan homes is punctuated by grand maximalism — high walls to infinity pool.

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Syringes, MRI to ventilators, West Asia war squeezing India’s medical supply chain—costs up 10 to 50%

Industry says manufacturers have 2-4 weeks of buffer stocks, but prolonged disruption could push up shortage risks, especially of consumables like IV and syringes.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.