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Regulators can’t be MIA as people buy weight-loss drugs off the internet, including from China Many have a big medical need, others are merely driven by vanity. Either way, Indians are racing at predictable pace towards the ‘magic pills’ they have heard so much about, that could thin them without the ‘bitter pills’ of diet…

That US, Iran met is a good beginning, even minus an agreement. Israel-Lebanon talks can offer an off-ramp to both Vance’s statement that US-Iran talks yielded no breakthrough, should not be a cause for quiet satisfaction anywhere in the world. It underscores a deeply unsettling reality: diplomacy, when most urgently needed, is still struggling to…

Even as the United States and Iran clasp hands over a fragile ceasefire, Lebanon remains in strategic limbo, with continued Israeli strikes on Hezbollah underscoring that such truces manage symptoms, not causes. Often reduced to labels like “terrorist group” or “Iranian proxy,” such shorthand obscures the deeper historical, ideological, and geopolitical layers that define Hezbollah’s…

The Middle East has plunged into a significantly graver, more volatile situation following the collapse of high-stakes, 21-hour marathon talks in Islamabad on April 11-12, 2026. Designed to end the 2026 Iran-US war, the failed negotiations have resulted in a total breakdown of trust, leaving the fragile ceasefire in tatters and paving the way for…

The best kind of music, like Asha Bhosle’s songs, tells us where society is headed. The best kind of tribute, never mind India’s official idea of itself, is that everyone, at some point, has hummed Dum Maro Dum There are countries that legislate themselves into being. India, more often than it admits, has sung itself…

That the talks collapsed was predictable. Trump may go for a naval blockade of Iran. That’ll make Netanyahu happier. And Iran angrier. Expect renewed turbulence A breeze of cautious optimism had swept through various diplomatic circles, as soon as it was announced that there would be US-Iran talks over the weekend. And even as Islamabad…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently announced during a special parliamentary debate that the problem of Naxalism, a highly dangerous form of internal terrorism confronting the nation, has been brought to an end. Naxalites posed a threat to the country just as grave as that of Pakistan-sponsored terrorists. Over the past 12 years, the Modi…

On 6 April 2026, inside a contained steel vessel on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, something quietly extraordinary happened. A controlled nuclear chain reaction was initiated inside India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam, and for the first time in the country’s seven-decade nuclear journey, the second stage of Homi Bhabha’s original vision came…

1) Simple Exercise to Know Thyself: Activity 1: Raise your hand and ask yourself the question: Am I the hand? What is the answer you get? Are you the hand or are you the observer, witness, knower, of the hand, which is just another ‘object’ like the table, chair, etc.? It will be easy for…

The biologics movement mostly started with hyaluronic acid (HA) in 1997. This natural lubricant of joints and tissues was created from chicken coxcombs. Surgeons started patients off with injections once a week for five weeks until a more crosslinked or dense version became available in the US (DUROLANE) in 2018 as a single shot. The…