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Recently a paper named “The Contribution of Ukrainian scientists to the Formation of the IIT Bombay (1950–1970s) within the context of the UNESCO Mission” has been published in the academic The World of Orient magazine. As one of the authors, I feel responsible to share the story with the people of India. Let me explain…

India cannot reach a genuinely high level of defence-technology innovation by incremental reform of DRDO alone. What Israel did was institutional, not just technological. The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) model offers strong lessons, but India must adapt it to its scale, security environment, and political economy. What I propose is an institution—autonomous, passionately led by…

Meet Deetya and Shambhavi: The stars of my IndiGo Flight 6E 292 from Kolkata to Ahmedabad. Yes, that’s a trash bag and a small black wire in my hand. I have a power bank given as a gift from my wife, which only works with the original wire. Mid-flight, I accidentally tossed that little wire…

Markets no longer wait for decisions—they move on sentences. In today’s economy, the most powerful trades are often executed before a policy exists, before a bill is drafted, sometimes even before a regulator has finished speaking. A pause, a qualifier, a carefully chosen hesitation can reprice assets faster than any statute ever could. By January…

In the early hours of January 3, US special forces raided Venezuela’s presidential palace and in one of the boldest moves of either of Trump’s presidencies, nabbed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife and transported them to New York to face criminal charges. The two were indicted, according to Trump, “for their campaign of…

Trump may get Greenland without firing a shot, if he really sweetens the deal for Greenlanders Is Greenland next? That’s the big geopolitical question, fanned daily by Trump & Co. He pulled out the national security imperative on Sunday. On Monday, his homeland security adviser Stephen Miller said, “Nobody’s going to fight the US militarily…

By Anandmurti Gurumaa Amrit Bindu Upanishad defines God with absolute clarity. That which is boundless, infinitude itself, without beginning and without end, truth, ever conscious, and the embodiment of bliss. The eyes cannot see that which is boundaryless, for the eyes can perceive only what has a boundary. The eyes have limitations. So do the…

Trump’s MAGA core is ecstatic, as he has done the most Trump thing ever. Muscular, unilateral and aggressive. Democrats understand that mood, which is why they have been so muted. No sooner did the Nobel Peace Prize season end, than Trump said it is time for war. The extraction of Maduro, President of Venezuela, right…

Naveed Mehmood Ahmad and Ayushi Sharma Ayushi Sharma is a Senior Resident Fellow with the Crime & Punishment Team at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. Her work focuses on mapping of India’s criminal law landscape and developing a framework for principle-based criminal law making. Prior to joining Vidhi, she worked at Nirma University and National…

People are asking a big question in world politics: Will Greenland become part of the United States? Former US President Donald Trump has talked about this idea many times. Greenland is a huge island near the Arctic. It is important because of its location, its natural resources, and possible oil underground. Right now, Greenland is…