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Iran, Nepal, Tunisia, or tsarist Russia, people take to the streets when they’re beggared for daily needs  Why is Iran on the boil? Its regime has a stock answer – foreign meddling. It blamed the foreign hand for protests that followed Mahsa Amini’s killing in 2022, and the riots after a gasoline price hike in…

India’s workhorse fails twice in a row. Are Isro’s expanding missions overstretching its resources? Yesterday’s PSLV-C62 mission had been pitched as doing significant service to both India’s strategic national requirements and global ambitions in the commercial space. Its failure, naturally, hurts both objectives. From Isro, Nasa, SpaceX to China and Russia’s space programmes, failures have…

This is not a common garden variety of disease It started as a tickle in the throat. And I was in complete denial. By mid-day, my doubts were becoming certainty. My throat was like sandpaper… Source link

When The Lancet released its global three-part series on ‘Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health’ in Nov, the reaction from the world’s largest food corporations was immediate, coordinated and revealing. International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA), representing major multinational UPF manufacturers, asserted its members “want to improve global health outcomes through diet quality” and that “food…

A few weeks ago, this column looked at how time has changed in shape and form. We now have two kinds of time— hard, that comes with fixed boundaries and imposes itself on us, and soft, that fluid, almost liquid time we spend streaming, scrolling and clicking on our phones. In the latter, time is…

A. Vivekananda first became known, not in India, but because he succeeded in spreading the message of harmony of religions to the Western audiences in USA, UK, Europe, talking and interacting both with societal leaders and common men and women, in simple English. For the first time he highlighted to the world the idea that all…

India’s AI debate is no longer technical. It is political, economic, and deeply personal. When decisions, services, and even justice start flowing through algorithms, the question becomes brutally simple: who owns the intelligence that runs your life? From UPI to IndiaAI, the Modi government’s bet is clear: build the rails at home, then let a…

2026 took me to a place I have always believed is as powerful as any battlefield: the World Book Fair. Walking into Bharat Mandapam this January felt different. Familiar, yet quietly stirring. This year, the fair greeted visitors with a theme that felt deeply personal to me:  Indian Military History: Valour & Wisdom @75.   I…

Contrary to predictions that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs could push India’s economic growth below 6% in 2026, official estimates published ahead of the Budget have revised the Reserve Bank of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projection upward to 7.4%. Despite pressure from the US tariffs, experts point out that this projected growth is real…

Europe has grown accustomed to strategic discomfort, but Donald Trump’s renewed insistence that the United States should acquire Greenland, by purchase, pressure, or even force, if need be by hook or by crook, pushes that discomfort into genuinely dangerous territory. What is at stake is not merely a remote Arctic island, but the credibility of…