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Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicBerlin Wall

Topic: Berlin Wall

It wasn’t Reagan, Gorbachev or Bush who brought down Berlin Wall

In reality, Ronald Reagan’s speech — in which he exhorted Soviet leader Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall' — didn’t have any magical influence on East Germany’s collapse.

Why Russian President Vladimir Putin is a ‘shrewd’ tactician but ‘lousy’ strategist

ThePrint takes a look at how the implosion of the Soviet Union and the decade long chaos that ensued had a lasting effect on Putin.

US media unites against Donald Trump attack, and another sex abuse ‘cover-up’

A migrant ship with pregnant women and children is stranded at sea, and a surprise discovery in Berlin.

On Camera

Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.