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Code is the language of mystery & secrets   It may have had none of the sophistication of cryptography, but it was no less ingenious a code. An NCR-based rough & tough gang of lowly mafia used simple stickers to run a black-market permit system. Commercial vehicles, trucks & lorries with an innocuous sticker on the…

Vladimir Putin’s 4-5 December 2025 visit to India was far from routine. It represents a major strategic signal: the India–Russia partnership is shifting from a narrow oil-plus-arms dependency toward a modern, diversified, resilient relationship spanning trade, technology, energy, critical infrastructure, nuclear cooperation, and strategic connectivity. This deeper alignment strengthens both countries individually and accelerates the…

China’s pursuit of defence-technology dominance rests on an aggressive civil–military fusion model that integrates private-sector innovation directly into its military-industrial complex. By treating AI, robotics, quantum systems, and biotechnology as dual-use enablers of future warfare, China ensures that every technological gain in civilian industry is rapidly weaponised. Unlike open democracies, Beijing’s centralized control allows seamless…

As the winters peak in the northern part of India, there is an amazing attraction towards new fashion wear, winter athleisure, shoe collections, and seasonal culinary delights. There is one more thing that many would… Source link

1. ‘Dharma protects those who protect Dharma’: We must have an intellectual conviction, not mere belief, that if we don’t follow Dharma, we are bound to suffer the harmful consequences of adharma. Just as parents protect their children, it is the obligatory duty of those who occupy positions of power in governance and as teachers,…

The US-India visa story is a mixed bag. On one hand, Indians are flocking to the US—over 2 million visitor visas issued in the first 11 months of 2024, a 26% jump from 2023, and a record 331,000+ Indian students enrolled in US universities, making India the top sender of international students. But here’s the…

In today’s edition, we look at Time naming two Indian-origin leaders as the architects of the AI age, Donald Trump’s proposed $1 million “Gold Card” visa raises new questions for Indian aspirants, and an AI teacher in an Indian classroom forces an uncomfortable conversation about what education has already become. THE BIG STORY India’s AI moment…

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,…