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India is paying higher costs for its Covid crisis than we know yet

With a record GDP fall, surging Covid cases, sharp hit to healthcare and education, the Modi government needs to resist calls to spend money it doesn't have.

Electric cars could get Rs 70,000 cheaper as Modi govt panel suggests cuts in taxes, fees

The recommendations, by a panel chaired by the cabinet secretary, include waiving registration fees and road tax for electric vehicles.

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.