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Opinion| Why Cooperation Not Fear, Must Drive the Future Of Trade Ties With America

Opinion| Why Cooperation Not Fear, Must Drive the Future Of Trade Ties...

This will lead to several outcomes, which may not necessarily be in India’s favour.

7 Nov 2025 6:08 AM IST

REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & Indias Rocky American Saga

REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & India's Rocky American Saga

India wasn’t an American priority and a meeting might have disappointed Indians fed on propaganda about this country...

7 Nov 2025 6:02 AM IST

Dilip Cherian: SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In Paramilitary Forces

Dilip Cherian: SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In...

Top posts in CRPF, BSF, CISF and other forces were long dominated by Indian Police Service (IPS) officers parachuted in...

6 Nov 2025 2:36 AM IST

AA Edit: Beijing’s Missing Generals: What Is Xi Jinping Up To?

AA Edit: Beijing’s Missing Generals: What Is Xi Jinping Up To?

But there was more to be decoded. Lt. Gen. Wang Haijiang, who since August 2021 has been commanding the Western Theatre...

6 Nov 2025 12:26 AM IST

The plane was on its way from Pangkal Pinang, Bangka Belitung province, to Batam in the Riau Islands. (Photo: Representational Image)

AA Edit: New Refund Rule To Aid Fliers

At the heart of the proposal is the introduction of a 48-hour “look-in” window, which allows passengers to cancel or...

6 Nov 2025 12:06 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead…Long Live Democracy!

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead…Long Live...

The democratic path depends most upon one human quality: restraint. From restraint flows the spirit of accommodation,...

4 Nov 2025 10:38 PM IST

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Mr Yunus’ real objective is to raise an armed Islamic militia on the lines of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards, whose...

4 Nov 2025 10:03 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And Was Quietly Shelved

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And...

The “Smart Cities” mission was set up with a concept note that said the aim was to make cities that would offer “decent...

3 Nov 2025 8:43 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but...

3 Nov 2025 7:26 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner, Rather Than Later

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner,...

In 2009, a parliamentary committee led by M. Venkaiah Naidu even declared that sex education “pollutes young minds”

2 Nov 2025 10:25 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Today, a radical shift has occurred; European and Western actors are increasingly marginalised, while mediators are...

2 Nov 2025 9:50 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

We had both become old and staid and I hoped he wouldn’t reminisce too much about the old days because Prita didn’t know...

2 Nov 2025 1:12 AM IST