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Why Nepalese Gorkha recruits deserve better than Agnipath scheme

India has not consulted Nepal regarding the Agnipath scheme applying to recruitment of Gorkhas, who have loyally served the Indian Army for over 200 years.

Bengaluru flooding will reveal how water can send your flashy, high-end car to scrapyard

Damage to your car can happen even while wading through seemingly small amounts of water. That big SUV of yours can be crippled by just a few inches of water.

Your food packet can be ultra-processed if it has more than 5 ingredients. Read the label

Prevalence of obesity in India has increased by nearly 25 per cent during the last five years, both in adult men and women. Ultra-processed foods might be the cause.

Congress or BJP– Indian parties will have polls. But ‘eventually’ is a long time in India

Congress or BJP, dynasty and conspiracy cannot reign forever.

Mongols speaking Malayalam – What a sunken ship says about South India & China’s medieval ties

The silent ceramic objects that survive from medieval Indian Ocean trade carry incredible stories of a time when South Asia had the upper hand over China.

How Beijing, CCP diplomats lobbied hard to stall the UNHCR report on Uyghurs

In late June, Beijing started circulating a letter among the diplomatic missions in Geneva to get support from like-minded authoritarian countries.

China watchers are on the rise in India—from civil servants to scholars to general public

Besides civil servants and academics, there are now open-source enthusiasts, finding clues for China-related developments in satellite imagery and social media.

Sheikh Hasina’s Teesta water calls turn desperate. But Modi is weighing national interest

Modi govt needs to engage with the costs a Teesta deal will have on West Bengal farmers. But it also can't ignore the cost of a hostile govt and civil society in Bangladesh.

After PM Modi, Pinarayi Vijayan has a new friend in Amit Shah. But Congress can’t take it

It is being said that because Vijayan is in trouble due to the gold smuggling case, he does not want to confront the BJP.

KCR-Nitish, Kejriwal-Stalin—why north-south leaders are suddenly meeting each other

PM Modi commissioned INS Vikrant in Kochi. Amit Shah chose Kerala for the southern zonal council meeting. BJP is also realising there is space for a national party in South India.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?