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March 20 is International Day of Happiness. On this day and around it, there is increased interest and discussion on the topic of happiness. Today, it is almost impossible to let a day pass without hearing about AI or encountering it in some form, small or large. AI has become an important part of our…

Tourism is often described as a soft industry built on leisure and lifestyle. In reality, it is one of the hardest economic forces shaping the modern world. Every international visitor is effectively an export customer arriving at a country’s doorstep—spending foreign exchange without requiring goods to be shipped overseas. By that measure, tourism may be…

There is a particular cruelty in what the latest Climate Central analysis reveals, and it is not the numbers themselves. It is the timing. The data covers December 2025 through February 2026. Those are winter months. The season the world has historically associated with relief, with the body’s right to rest from heat, with the…

The young in this country have high aspirations, but limited opportunities. So, Modi’s popularity among Gen Z isn’t a guarantee that their frustrations will never spill onto the streets Waves of Gen Z protest movements are jolting govts across the globe, from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, to Indonesia and Philippines; Egypt, Tunisia, Nigeria, Morocco…

By Sandeep Chakravorty Today, it is almost unthinkable that a busy international airport shuts down completely for an entire day. It is not a one-time exception; it happens year after year. Not only is the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali closed to all flights, but all transportation on the island comes to a grinding…

For Israel, it isn’t over till Iran’s regime is savagely weakened. For Iran, it isn’t over till the world feels unbearable pain. For Trump, it isn’t clear when and/or how he can say it’s over. Biggest risk: in 5 years, Iran can be like Libya or North Korea or Pakistan Countries often go to war…

Many of us prefer reading about exercise, rather than doing it. We also cherrypick bits that suit us If only reading about exercise counted as exercise, we could all be as fit as Ronaldo. And of all the reading we looove to do on the topic, nothing hits quite like studies reporting the yuge health…

…The world pays. Trump must make sure Israel and Iran stop targeting W Asia energy fields Trump’s sharp reaction to Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field – and Tehran’s swift retaliation against Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub – captured a moment when world energy markets and supplies teetered close to disaster. Yesterday was,…

Why we’ll never be short of gas O what’s the matter, Shanta mine So pale and vainly loitering? The veg has withered in your fridge, And no cookers hiss.I see your worried, wrinkled brow,With anguish moist coz dinner’s due;And from your eye a salty tearIs fast falling too. I met a mantri, replied the lass,…

If a big fight happens in the Persian Gulf, it doesn’t stay there — the whole world feels it Recently, there were attacks between Israel and Iran on very important energy places. One was the South Pars gas field (one of the biggest in the world), and another was Ras Laffan, which supplies a huge…