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Sanskrit to satellites, embassies in Delhi are using culture to show ties, get close to India

With major players engaged in ‘hard’ diplomacy, smaller embassies like Australia, Lithuania, Switzerland and others are rushing to fill the gaps with soft diplomacy.

Andhra Vedic institute’s time has come—IIT to DRDO and ISRO partnerships, govt grants

Established by Vedic scholar ABS Sastry in 1999, SRIVT in Guntur is now a recognised PhD centre for several IITs. Sastry says he is in talks with BITS to develop courses for future engineers and scientists.

Trump unpredictable, Modi dependable? On trade, it’s just the opposite

The Modi government must reflect on the reputation it is building for India. It is fueling a perception of unpredictability.

Why is it fashionable to deride historians? The answer lies outside academia

The inaccessible, ideologically motivated historian is a straw man, a largely artificial construct used to discredit history writing itself.

The Great Indian Sanitation Scam. General castes bag govt jobs, Valmikis do the work

Across India, proxy, ‘badli’, or ‘ewaj’ work is rampant in sanitation jobs. ‘They want our jobs but they don’t want to do our jobs.’

Rajasthan’s elderly are victims of ‘digital murder’. eKYC gaps leave lakhs without pension

Digital verification issues are excluding Rajasthan’s elderly and disabled from pensions, with lakhs incorrectly declared ‘dead’ or missing. There’s an embarrassing KYC-shaped hole in Digital India.

Jharkhand’s Adivasis, beyond poll maths. A long struggle for land & identity, a ‘disappearing’ people

'There will soon be a day when tribals are found only in museums,' says an Adivasi youth. As polls near, anxieties over an existential threat to tribal identity rears its head again.

After UPSC, India’s coaching industry has found a new gold rush—judicial services

With law schools churning out more graduates than ever, the competition to become a judge in India’s lower courts and tribunals has heated up. The coaching industry is cashing in.

Violent Canadians beat up Indians in Brampton. India has a right to speak up

As the great power in the region, it is our duty to offer shelter to people of Indian origin when they are an oppressed minority in the countries where they live.

Darjeeling zoo showed the world how to save red pandas. Now it’s on a global award shortlist

The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park’s red panda programme is the first Indian project to be shortlisted in October 2024 for the global conservation award by the WAZA.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.