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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicAusterity

Topic: Austerity

Pakistan Army orders 2,550 fancy staff cars as govt seeks an IMF bailout

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Warrant dropped against journalist Cyril Almeida, and in Asia Bibi blasphemy case, Pakistan top court reserves judgment. 

Former Pakistan President Musharraf’s health deteriorating rapidly, claims his party

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Journalist lashes out at Imran Khan govt over ‘nepotism’; a whopping Rs 2.25 billion found in falooda vendor’s bank account.

Plane austerity: PM Imran takes the chopper, Punjab CM travels with family

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan's stand-up comedian leaves social media after backlash for video on Sindhis; Pakistani 1965 prisoner of war dies

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.