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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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M.P. Nathanael | Custodial Deaths: A Growing Problem For Law-enforcing...

R. Akash Delison, a Dalit youth, was arrested on March 5 for attempted murder by the Manamadurai police station in Tamil...

22 July 2026 1:08 AM IST

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REFLECTIONS | Will Burnham, As PM, End ‘Roller-coaster’ UK Politics?...

All this underlines Britain’s need for a massive building programme. Some 134,000 households, comprising 350,000 people,...

22 July 2026 12:11 AM IST

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Shobha Sengupta | Rise Of The Book Club

The US has an estimated five million book club members. India’s numbers are rising, too

21 July 2026 5:59 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | The Lessons That India Learns As Wangchuk’s Fast...

This year the government was compelled to accept that there was corruption in the matter and it cancelled the exam,...

21 July 2026 1:24 AM IST

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Dev 360 | Chasing Global Rankings On a Crumbling Planet | Patralekha...

Yet, one in 10 people globally still lives in extreme poverty. Food insecurity remains well above 2015 levels, affecting...

20 July 2026 11:32 PM IST