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Tamil Nadu isn’t so ‘South’ now. Stalin wants to paint BJP ‘northern’ with anti-Hindi bogey

Why did the DMK react so quickly? It hasn’t been fulfilling its promises, Stalin’s losing his grip, and there's acknowledgement that BJP is growing in Tamil Nadu.

Bajwa speech had a message for Imran Khan—‘won’t let anyone destabilise Pakistan’

Right to protest is inalienable. But any protest that is accompanied by threats of violence, does not constitute a part of that inalienable right.

India has a productivity problem. Just look at Revenue Per Employee data

Revenue per employee or RPE benchmarking provides the impetus for management teams to debate changes in strategies and tactics.

Modi has carried forward Indira’s torch. Ujjain puja shows India connecting with past

Modi has, in some sense, taken forward Indira Gandhi’s torch. His proud unapologetic actions are very much in the spirit of the intrepid Indira.

Launch of missile from Arihant a milestone. But India’s nuclear triad isn’t complete yet

Currently, India’s land and air-based nuclear capabilities are doing the heavy lifting. Arihant changes that but the country needs more.

India’s real food problem isn’t hunger but loss and wastage

Food losses can't be brought to zero; even developed nations like Ukraine experience it. But this analysis highlights a low-hanging problem and a solution to it.

Why Bihar CM Nitish Kumar can’t say no to RJD-JDU merger plans

Tejashwi Yadav has turned out to be a shrewder politician than many thought he was. The RJD’s resolution shows Nitish Kumar probably knows it.

Xi says ‘national security’ 50 times at Party Congress & China sees rare protest against him

President Xi Jinping mentioned 'Chinese-style modernisation' in this year’s Party Congress speech, which is now trending on social media sites such as Weibo.

Quaid-e-Azam University land grab—In Pakistan, public good is sacrificed in blink of an eye

A govt agency has now seized land in the middle of Islamabad’s oldest university. Pakistan’s future is bleak if no one cares about education and public property.

China’s ‘Century of humiliation’ never ended. It needs a Mandela or Gandhi now

Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping—All of them have contributed to humiliating the Chinese people to keep CCP in power and achieve personal glory.

On Camera

Cash-guzzling ops, delayed filings, investor scorn — how Byju’s flew too close to the sun & got burnt

Fighting fires on all fronts — from inability to pay salaries to mismanagement allegations, cases in NCLT & ED probe — Byju's valuation has dropped to $250 mn from $22 bn in 2022.

Iron Dome, David’s Sling & the Arrow — what makes up Israel’s mega multi-layered air defence system

On 6 May 1985, Israel and the United States signed an MoU on the development of a missile defence system against long-range threats, which is the genesis of Tel Aviv’s air defence umbrella.

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.