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US economy entered recession in February. (AP Photo)

Indranil Banerjie | Seismic changes lie ahead as world faces hard...

There is little to cheer as we look ahead: yesteryears' global order is fast uncoupling and the world is into the fog of...

11 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will linking rivers' work, or end up as a disaster?

The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million...

10 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prince Harry and Meghan (Photo: Netflix)

Kishwar Desai | Will the 'Spare' (Prince Harry) end up richer than the...

All of London has been talking about nothing else.

9 Jan 2023 1:49 AM IST

Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next decade. (Representational image: PTI File)

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It's like riding a roller coaster

The US has so many diasporas from nations that it has poor relations with.

9 Jan 2023 12:51 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our neighbours?

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our...

The World Bank says that trade between South Asian nations accounts for only five per cent of the region's total trade

9 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo:PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Successors & rising stars: Cabinet rejig to reveal all

What are the power dynamics in BJP under Narendra Modi? Whose stock is rising, and whose is declining?

8 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Union Minister for Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharati addressing a press conference at her residence in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Anita Katyal | Uma outburst a blow to BJP; Aiyar in good books of Cong

She has, in the recent past, taken on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in her home state MP and is now targeting the...

8 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Besides security checks, I was worried about the airline, for wed been reading stories about how this particular airline didnt hesitate to beat up passengers. (Representational Image)

Shashi Warrier | In the name of flight security

You don't notice it much of the time but if you happen to need to fly somewhere and you're not used to it you could get...

8 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Indians -- or at least the Indian Chappaterati -- are keen on whiskies and think they can speak knowledgeably about them. (Representational Image)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of white wines & single malts: The snobbery over...

I never became a whisky connoisseur and will never pretend to be one. Wines? In a half-educated pretentious way? Maybe!

7 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the partys Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Panipat, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | Why have we become a nation of darpoks'?

No matter how weak RaGa is made to appear unlike most of us, sitting and bleating about injustice -- he is out there,...

6 Jan 2023 10:05 PM IST

Unlike in the past, China no longer counsels Nepal to keep on good terms with India. (Representational Image/ANI)

Anand K Sahay | China tilt by Kathmandu to disturb ties with India

If a question is seen as having attained immediacy or maturity, in the India-Nepal case the time is now. And the reason...

6 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Newly appointed Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh Prabodh Saxena calling on Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar at Raj Bhavan. (Photo: Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Sukhu favourite emerges as HP's new chief secy

Mr Saxena, a 1990-cadre HP cadre IAS officer, will have tenure until March 2025

5 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST