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Audi’s four rings shined bright in 2023. But India still a small market for luxury cars

Without volume, it makes little sense for Audi to start manufacturing units here. India is the world’s third-largest market for passenger vehicles, but it remains way behind China.

Topical steroid abuse is fuelled by easy availability. It can even lead to blindness

The anti-inflammatory property of steroids lulls you into the false belief they are working. But they also suppress immunity can make skin infections worse.

Adani shareholders have suffered enough. SC judgment must end Hindenburg conspiracy

Be it Hindenburg's report or George Soros' attack on the government of India, western interests and anti-India forces are making all efforts to obstruct India’s progress.

Kejriwal’s defiance of ED is creating a new political spectacle in the Delhi-Centre war

The reality is that if the ED has evidence, it can arrest an individual without repeated summons, as in AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s case.

The Left wants to come back with its own yatra in West Bengal

Any success for CPI-M hurts the BJP directly. TMC, aiming for a divided opposition vote rather than a united one behind the BJP, will gain from this.

India must exploit its goodwill with Russia. Don’t let multipolarity become ‘messy-polarity’

The India-Russia bilateral relationship is in search of realism – the much-loved continuity endures but inevitable change is looming.

20 crore Muslims have moved on from Babri Masjid and Ayodhya. Owaisi must as well

Asaduddin Owaisi says that the memory of Babri Masjid would forever remain etched in his mind. Why is the Hyderabad MP so determined to fan the flames of the past?

Fixing gender insensitivity in HCs needs more than a SC handbook. Let’s begin with judges

Despite the Supreme Court’s handbook on combating gender stereotypes, high court judges refuse to learn and continue to pronounce extremely gender-insensitive judgments.

Dear men, it’s time to retire your ‘henpecked husband’ jokes. Marriages are harder for women

Who hasn't heard an uncle joke about his wife 'not letting' him do fun stuff, even as she strives to make a hot meal for him at that exact moment?

New criminal laws shouldn’t go the way of farm fiasco. Govt must resist political cartels

The government must establish a strong damage control mechanism to address criticism of withdrawing good legislations under pressure from politically motivated cartels.

On Camera

Two documents, Modi-Macron visits—India-France defence partnership is touching new heights

Horizon 2047 signed during Modi's visit to France in July 2023 and the defence industrial roadmap during Macron’s visit to India in January 2024 guide the strategic bonhomie between the two countries.

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.