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Focus on services an excuse for incompetence. Manufacturing is key, says Jaishankar

The foreign minister was speaking at the launch of former NITI Aayog chief Amitabh Kant’s book Made in India.

Cheetah is India’s new conservation icon after tiger. It can save grasslands

The Story of India’s Cheetahs suggests that the animal's revival will be a long-drawn out process, spanning several decades at least.

Belchi wasn’t just Indira Gandhi’s moment. A legal landmark for Dalits too, new book says

Manoj Mitta’s ‘Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India’ documents the fight against the caste system and the pushback against it.

Activist ancestors, sexism in politics — KK Shailaja’s book traces her journey to communism

Brinda Karat called it a ‘book that will fly off the shelves’. And if the crowd at the book launch is any indication, she’s right.

Book on Sri Lankan cricket captures British history to 1996 World Cup. Only 13 attend the talk

Nicholas Brookes' An Island's Eleven talks about Ranatunga, Mendis, commonalities with West Indies cricket, and Percy Abeysekera. But school cricket culture was the highlight.

Non-Dalits can go through life not knowing Ambedkar’s work, jolt needed: Author Ashok Gopal

Ashok Gopal’s ‘Part Apart’, launched in Delhi on 14 April, takes Ambedkar’s life story and juxtaposes it with his writings, speeches – in English and Marathi – and all that he read.

‘Government must be open to ideas’—Former IAS officer’s book has lessons for new India

Sanjay Kaul launched his book ‘An Alternative Development Agenda’ at New Delhi’s India International Centre. And his target group was the country's political class.

Why has India’s steel frame turned laid back? Vinod Rai’s book talks modernising civil services

The book launch had a panel comprising decorated members from politics and civil services. And Jaishankar turned the 'specialists versus generalists' debate on its head.

Citizenship took a back seat to the Partition, ‘Indianess’ was never fully defined

Book launch of ‘Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism’ by Kishalaya Bhattacharjee sparked conversations on citizenship, marginalisation, caste.

Ladakh, Zanskar, Spiti are not ‘Little Tibet’. The region’s history is far more complicated

Ladakh is misunderstood. Its history is as old as 7th century Indus valley.

On Camera

Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.