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Bangladesh is becoming a security threat to India. Yunus govt is stoking anti-India politics

Political instability following the regime change in Bangladesh has disrupted its economic relationship, with India, affecting supply chains, tariff policies, and border infrastructure.

Before criticising India’s CAA-NRC, see US H1B visa policy to UK Migration Act

Why is India, under the guise of humanitarianism, being coerced into accepting people with unknown antecedents from countries that don’t want their own people?

Islamism & mental illness are simpler answers to New Orleans attack. They’re also misleading

Like other lone-wolf killers, the narrative around Shamsud-Din Jabbar is that he was seduced by online Islamist propaganda. While this is entirely true, it is also intellectually lazy.

Cleared UPSC in 2008, appointed 2024—visually impaired candidate’s 15 yr fight with the system

New Delhi: “Congratulations, Papa.” For a 100 per cent visually impaired candidate who cleared UPSC way back in 2008 but never entered the service,...

Why rising powers like India must now adopt amorality as the norm

India must build its own Deep State. Not only Adani, but Ambani, Tata, Birla, Infosys, TCS, Wipro can be potential allies.

The power imbalance between Indian corporations and consumers is growing every day

The result is a system where ordinary Indians are relegated to the margins, while corporations operate with impunity, leaving little room for equitable dialogue or genuine public accountability.

R Chidambaram compared nuclear option to marriage option. They cannot be open-ended

It was clear to Rajagopala Chidambaram that India needed time and could not go along with the Geneva negotiations in 1996. Accordingly, India withdrew.

Bollywood’s new costume king. He’s creating the biggest looks—Gangubai to Pushpa & Manto

As pan-India blockbusters and period films boomed, so did the demand for Sheetal Sharma. ‘Actors have to look like the characters they are playing, not just pretty and handsome.’

Life under the barbed wire

Entering India from Bangladesh, 4 Rohingya Muslims flew to Russia; 2 took a ‘donkey route’ to Latvia. Sent back, arrested & now out on bail, their journeys highlight costs of a refugee’s dreams.

Varanasi’s Great Temple Hunt—Hindu groups are combing gullies, mosques, Muslim homes

Freelance Hindu groups are on a mission to ‘find’ temples in Varanasi. Mosques, Muslim homes, or often tense Hindu-Muslim neighbourhoods are their hunting grounds.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.