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India and EU have new reasons to engage. Real test comes after FTA is signed

Whether India and the EU can finally turn their strategic complementarity into lasting strategic consequence lies on the other side of the FTA signing ceremony.

Chandrababu Naidu wants demonetisation 2.0. There’s still questions about the first round

The Andhra CM’s proposal to scrap high-value notes comes 10 years after demonetisation. The government must first account for what the 2016 exercise actually achieved.

Chinese streamers in Dhaka are selling, not doing a psyop. Follow the money

The Chinese streamers passing off Dhaka as Delhi are selling toothpaste and hair oil, not serving the state. India's response should follow the money.

Gandhi and Bachchan families were once inseparable. Sonia’s memoir skips the later fallout

The Gandhi-Bachchan friendship may never fully recover its old warmth. But in Sonia Gandhi’s recollections, at least, the door of 13, Willingdon Crescent remains open.

Diwali greetings don’t threaten Muslim identity. India’s shared traditions must survive

We need to remember and talk about history, especially when divisive ideas try to convince us that respecting each other’s sentiments weakens our own religious identity.

Zionism is in a deep crisis. Netanyahu is Israel’s biggest liability

The latest Israeli election is seen as a desperate opportunity for Zionism to save itself from the excesses of its isolated leaders.

Indian yogis once crossed China’s borders as Buddhist monks—merchants to spies to diplomats

From the 1500s to the 1700s, several strange Indian characters appear in Chinese records. While some were nine feet tall, others could contort their bodies in strange ways.

Jensen Huang affair — The spy, the seductress and the story we keep falling for

Just three of the 224 cases of Chinese espionage against the United States between 2000 and 2024 involved sex.

Is CM Vijay making Tamil Nadu do a U-turn on federalism and state autonomy?

On 6 November, the Vijay-led government scrapped the Kurian Committee on Union-State Relations, which had made strong recommendations for giving states more power.

Sonia Gandhi memoir is radical for what she refuses, not for what it reveals

As with other memoirs, this too will be selective, but what’s radical here is the authorship.

On Camera

Nvidia’s disaster week—affairs, espionage fears, and a market rout

By 13 November, Nvidia had lost $573 billion in market value over the week, its biggest weekly decline on record. The impact extended to Huang’s personal wealth, too.

Petroleum products fuel India’s record goods exports in October, but oil prices push up import bill too

The record high growth in monthly exports to $49.47 bn is also backed by a strong showing in exports of engineering goods, electronics, and gems and jewellery.

EXCLUSIVE: First Tejas Mk1A likely to be handed over to IAF in January ahead of Aero India 2027

IAF & HAL are working towards delivery target with strengthened collaboration. Development follows new air chief calling indigenous jets & weapons the ‘highest priority’.

Naidu’s Amaravati is an audacious tutorial for modern India, example for other chief ministers

Chandrababu Naidu’s commitment is underlined by the fact that he never abandoned the idea of Amaravati. He promised to revive it and is now building it at warp speed.