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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inaugural ceremony of Aero India 2023, in Bengaluru, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Not era of war': India needs to push Ukraine...

The International Crisis Group has its eye on 10 global wars that might explode during 2023

15 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

In March 2020, the year before Covid-19, merchandise exports were $314 billion. Meaning there was no growth in merchandise exports in six years. (Representational Image)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Export, monetise, privatise: The eco mantra India...

Despite the hoopla of centralised governance, the economy is mutating away from the government and towards the private...

14 March 2023 12:38 AM IST

A worker screen prints flags of various political parties in Coimbatore. (Representational Image/PTI)

Aakar Patel | India's parties and politics of exclusion: How it hurts...

India is experimenting after 2014 with the same things that Pakistan tried and failed with in its opening decades

14 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at the Raisina Dialogue 2023 in New Delhi, Friday, March 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Ukraine war: How perspectives differ in the West & rest...

Ukrainian ability to defend itself could also be undermined by Russia's continued attacks on Ukraine's civilian...

13 March 2023 12:32 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

KC Singh | Iran-Saudi-China accord a wake-up call for India?

China gains considerably from the deal by projecting its growing role as an economic and political power

13 March 2023 12:18 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Games universities play with students

Students have attend 80 percent of the classes to be eligible to write the end-semester exams

12 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of the spot after militants attacked a CRPF convoy in Goripora area of Awantipora town in Pulwama district of J&K. At least 49 CRPF jawans were killed in the attack. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Were India, Pak close to a nuke war after Pulwama?

It is fairly clear that there are no off-ramps when the Indo-Pakistan rivalry goes on an accelerated escalatory spiral

12 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

One of the central challenges in modern neuroscience is recording the exchange of information between different regions of the brain. (Photo: ANI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Mixing up myths & modern science will only lead to...

Government-enforced confounding of science and myth has caused seven professors of New Zealand's universities to write...

11 March 2023 12:56 AM IST

Shobhaa De | The first Samba-Tango in South America

Shobhaa De | The first Samba-Tango in South America

Indians have far more in common with Latin America than the United States -- the neo-colonisers of the twenty-first...

11 March 2023 12:16 AM IST

Ironically, while Pakistans best friends could well walk off without a scratch if things go sideways, the one country that is unlikely to remain unscathed is India. (Representational Image)

Indranil Banerjie | If Pakistan implodes, India has to deal with the...

India needs to respond, but how it does so will depend on the nature of the crisis currently engulfing Pakistan

10 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade | To take on BJP, Opposition needs to cut off the ropes'

Any party in the Opposition space the anti-BJP parties or non-BJP parties should ensure that they give their best to...

9 March 2023 12:44 AM IST

On International Womens Day, going beyond clich©s, one must look around, go back in time and analyse to be truly humbled into realising at how much wiser, saner, smarter and productively higher in the ladder of economics the women around us are. (Representational Image)

Sriram Karri | India's women can offer lessons in smart economics

Most modern lessons on diversifying a portfolio would not surprise any Indian household whose economics are steered by...

9 March 2023 12:05 AM IST