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Dilip Cherian | Executive’s job to balance govt’s EV dream with...

Tesla’s potential entry into India, the return of the BJP to power in Delhi, and the extension of Chief Economic Adviser...

26 Feb 2025 10:57 PM IST

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump’s Ukraine gambit to make Europe the real...

Trump’s $500B “payback” demand for Ukraine sparks concerns of US economic control; Europe debates security measures amid...

26 Feb 2025 10:49 PM IST

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Ketan | From test-takers to test-makers: How to boost India’s edu...

Numerous other exams like the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and various state...

22 Feb 2025 11:33 PM IST

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Manish Tewari | India and the global AI race: Winning strategies

Smaller nations such as South Korea and Israel are carving out their own AI niches, focusing on hardware, cyber...

22 Feb 2025 11:31 PM IST

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Ranjona Banerji | Is a foolish ‘friend’ worse than a ghosting frenemy?

The more intelligent people are, the more difficult I find it to excuse their stupidity

22 Feb 2025 11:24 PM IST

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Shobhaa De | Oooyi Amma… Help! We’re lost and confused, judges…

22 Feb 2025 12:33 AM IST

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OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Rebuild, but don’t displace: Will world...

I was certainly aware that Israel had been established after Hitler’s Holocaust, but didn’t connect it with Balfour’s...

22 Feb 2025 12:30 AM IST

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Bharat Bhushan | Why India More Unequal Than Sub-Saharan Africa

Direct taxes like income tax and corporate tax contribute less to the total revenue of the government than indirect...

14 Dec 2025 11:51 PM IST

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Pradeep S. Mehta | Amid Tariff Crisis, The World Trade Organisation...

It took many years of intense negotiations since the Havana Charter of 1948 to shape what we see as the WTO today. For...

14 Dec 2025 11:25 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

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Manish Tewari | Five Ideas To Fix Our Broken Election Machine

What is happening under the garb of SIR violates this principle fundamentally. The Election Commission is conducting...

14 Dec 2025 1:04 AM IST

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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Melody That Knows No Borders

We’ve all met Balu. We will continue meeting him. Into our old age. Irrespective of which part of India (or the world)...

14 Dec 2025 12:48 AM IST

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John J. Kennedy | Beyond American Dreams: Indians Doing A Rethink On...

Over the last couple of years, that assumption has begun to crumble under the weight of policy unpredictability, lengthy...

14 Dec 2025 12:31 AM IST