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The unveiling of the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025 marks one of the most decisive shifts in American grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. After years of strategic ambiguity, Washington openly acknowledges that its core assumptions about China’s integration into a “rules-based international order” were fundamentally flawed. As NSS 2025 states…

On a week when India’s airports turned into holding pens with families camped on floors, milestones missed, lives put on pause, the owners of a Goa nightclub where 25 people died in a blaze quietly sailed past the mayhem. As lakhs of passengers were grounded by IndiGo’s spectacular operational collapse, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra slipped…

By Partha Sinha Every civilisation maintains a blacklist of words – impolite syllables that must never feature in annual reports, family WhatsApp groups or polite audio on flights. We treat them like emotional contraband. Yet strangely, these forbidden words carry a voltage that ‘civilised’ phrases cannot. They arrive unannounced, like monsoon wind – raw, truthful,…

Cognitive psychologist and professor at Harvard, Steven Pinker, in a recent tweet, referred to his 2003 prediction that parents wouldn’t opt for direct gene-editing of embryos for higher IQ. He called it the “designer baby myth”. But, as Pinker noted, parents seem to have found another way – selecting the smartest from a range of…

The night that Birch by Romeo Lane burned, the DJ was shouting over a crowd that did not yet know it was trapped in hell. Fireworks went off in a thatched, flammable structure. By dawn on Dec 7, 2025, twenty five people were dead. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views…

You see fonts every day — in books, apps, memes, signs — but you probably don’t think about them much. Still, fonts can say a lot without using any actual words. Recently, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he didn’t want to use the font Calibri anymore. He said it felt too “woke.” The…

This article attempts to touch upon the concept that creating some intentional discomfort in life can enhance quality of life, and help us to further push our limits and discover our hidden potential. There is a saying that all good things lie beyond the comfort zone. It is important to have a conscious mindset that…

The relationship between food and mood is complex and bidirectional. What we eat can significantly impact our mental health, and conversely, our mental state can influence our food choices. Understanding this connection can empower us to make informed decisions about our diet and lifestyle, potentially improving our mental well-being. The gut-brain axis The gut and…

India stands today at a defining moment in its nuclear trajectory. The coming decade – 2025 to 2035 – will determine how effectively New Delhi can deter two nuclear-armed neighbours acting in increasing strategic synchrony: a technologically ambitious China and a tactically unpredictable Pakistan. As the Asian geopolitical landscape hardens, India must reinforce its deterrence…

Sanjay Kumar Sanjay is a seasoned new media journalist and media educator, whose illustrious career spans across top-notch media organizations, including Times Group, NDTV, Hindustan Times, India Today Group, Microsoft, where he served as the Managing Editor of Microsoft News, a UK-based international finance magazine, where he was Editor-in-Chief, and Geospatial World, where he excelled…