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Move over Air Jordans. India has its very own sneaker subculture—Comet, Anaar, Zaydn, 7-10

From Hindi lettering to taash designs and artist collabs, Indian brands are spinning India’s own sneaker story. ‘Indian brands have built culture and aspiration to get people to pay top dollar.’

Punjab’s debt-ridden farmers can’t break free from Green Revolution chakravyuh

Debt-burdened farmers cling to paddy even as it drains soil, water, and future prospects. ‘Crop diversification is a nice buzz word but nothing’s done at the policy level.’

JDU has a new caste calculation for Bihar 2025 election

The JDU is contesting 101 seats in Bihar this time, lower than its 2020 quota. Here's what our analysis of the caste background of candidates fielded by it reveals.

All-woman Lithuanian embassy breaks diplomat mould. ‘Love to explore Delhi’

Lithuanian ambassador Diana Mickevičienė and her team are in the thick of Delhi life, from Sundar Nursery to Tughlaqabad. They worry more about pollution than women’s safety.

Indian universities follow the same template on sexual assault—cover up, blame the victim

The institutional default is not the protection of students and staff, but damage control. You see it play out at SAU, IIT-BHU, RG Kar, and Durgapur.

From Narayana Murthy to Mazumdar-Shaw and Pai—why industry captains make CM Siddaramaiah angry

People like Narayana Murthy know how to create wealth for the society and jobs for the youth. Our politicians only know how to distribute taxpayers’ money as freebies to retain power.

Nobel laureates, Schumpeter, and Shiva point India to the same path — creative destruction

Protecting established entities, resisting change, or prioritising short-term political gains can all lead to stagnation traps. India must embrace creative destruction for prosperity.

America imagines Asim Munir is the cure to jihadism. He is the disease

Less than an hour earlier, William Putscher had been lunching on a hot dog by the poolside, in the congenial environment of the American...

Uttarakhand hotels are turning away interfaith couples. Their fear—raids by ‘love jihad’ vigilantes

Hindu–Muslim couples report being refused rooms, hotels say they have 'got orders from above', while police say they have not sent any directives to hotels.

Hyderabad eye institute wants AI to think like a doctor

Doctors at LV Prasad Eye Institute are training an AI model on 1.5 lakh cornea scans to help rural health workers spot infections early. ‘Machine can detect an infection from a simple photo.’

On Camera

Piyush Pandey brought the language of small towns into ad agency corridors: Prasoon Joshi

Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.