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In both India and the United States, the idea of opportunity is deeply tied to family—parents working hard so their children can move forward with stability and hope. Across cultures, the quiet values are the same: showing up, staying resilient through uncertainty, and believing that honest work should support—not strain—family life. In India, opportunity is…

Delhi’s air debate is dominated by numbers—daily AQI values, PM2.5 averages, counts of “good”, “poor”, and “severe” days. These numbers served an important purpose. AQI did what it was meant to do: it made air pollution visible, urgent, and politically unavoidable. It forced governments, courts, and citizens to acknowledge a crisis that had long been…

Not long ago, shopping online meant opening multiple tabs, comparing prices, reading reviews, and  second-guessing every decision. Today, that process already feels exhausting. In the near future, it  may disappear entirely. Imagine telling an AI assistant, “Buy the best running shoes under Rs 10,000 for  long-distance training,” and minutes later receiving a confirmation message that…

A crying horse toy in China is one of the most sought-after toys these days. The horse was never meant to cry. A worker accidentally stitched its smile upside down, turning it into a frown. When the makers prepared to apologise and offer refunds, a plot twist followed. People loved it. The upside-down smile went…

This week, the global economic landscape shifted significantly as the European Union (EU) and India—two of the world’s most influential democratic powers—reached a historic Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Often referred to as the “mother of all trade deals,” this pact represents the culmination of nearly two decades of stop-and-start negotiations and signals a profound strategic…

The idealist will love it if international affairs are governed by morality; the cynic believes that there is no morality between nations. India’s foreign policy, however, is beyond idealism and cynicism; it is also light-years away from realism, that golden mean between idealism and cynicism. It belongs to another cosmos. India’s vote against the UN…

For a long time, India’s tax state was proudly muscular: audits, notices, searches, appeals — the visible instruments of coercion and compliance. Over the past three years that posture hasn’t been abandoned so much as repackaged. The Revenue has quietly pivoted from raw extraction toward what is effectively tax-behaviour engineering: deploying near-real-time data, automated outreach…

India and the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a big trade deal. Many people are excited and wondering: When will we get cheaper European wine, chocolate, and cars? The truth is, it may… Source link

Basu by any other would be as verBose SIR is questioning folks from single-engine states with singularly ‘illogical consistency’. Take West Bengal. Having already summoned a Bharat Ratna Nobelman, a cricketer who scalped 462 wickets for India and a diplomat who lied for his country – last week’s targets were those whose surname ‘differed’ from…

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance”. These lines could aptly apply to Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech in Davos. Canada has woken, and we can say welcome…