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Maya means that which can be measured. So, saying, “All this is Maya,” means everything here can be measured. Volume, temperature, distance, and time can all be measured. Everything in this creation is time and space, and both can be measured, and so it is all Maya. What isn’t Maya? That which is beyond measure….

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Israel tomorrow in what is widely expected to be another landmark moment in India-Israel relations. Nearly a decade after his historic 2017 visit, which fundamentally transformed the tone and texture of bilateral engagement, this forthcoming visit carries both symbolic and substantive weight. It signals continuity, consolidation, and…

Kyiv: As European leaders and experts gather in Kyiv to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there is a collective sense that Russia is not willing to stop any time soon. Speaking at the opening of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Special Meeting, there is clarity on what Ukraine needs now:…

Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) EXIM Bank provides lines of credit to overseas buyers to purchase goods and services from India in turn facilitating larger transactions and entry into new markets by providing financial support to buyers and exporters. SIDBI helps in the promotion of exports by offering…

I gently wiped a tear as I looked at my phone with grief and concern. Kamala paused mid-stride, worried that I had got some bad news about an ailing relative or that Trump had raised the tariffs again. But this was worse. It was disaster on a global scale. Punch, the baby monkey in Japan…

Most snakes hiss, king cobra growls. Its hood anatomy is dramatic, all the more imposing for it being able to lift one-third of its body (running up to 18 feet) into the air. And yet, as far as humans are concerned, it’s a shy creature. From the growl to the stand-up, all it’s trying to…

The two sisters, aged 25 and 23, in a Rajasthan village who died of poisoning hours before their twin weddings, allegedly by suicide, per police, were teachers in a primary school. Early Feb, three sisters – aged 16, 14 and 10 – jumped to their death in UP. Among their diary notings: “Mention of marriage…

“Ultimately, humans have to consume grains, not dollars,” Bill Gates remarked during the severe phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. His words underline a fundamental truth: food security is the bedrock of human survival. With exponential urbanisation encroaching upon agricultural and forest land, the need to utilise every available patch of cultivable land has become urgent….

Critical minerals are the new reality of power. They sit behind the clean energy transition, electric mobility, advanced electronics, AI and modern defence systems. They also enable something less visible: the ability to slow another country’s industrial momentum without ever declaring a sanction. Tariffs can be bargained down. Mineral constraints cannot. That is why India’s…

History has seen wars that lasted centuries. They differed in scale and character, but their cause was the same: irreconcilable positions, and one side choosing force to impose its political aims. For more than a thousand years, Ukraine endured repeated invasions – in the 11th, 16th, 17th and 19th centuries – from its northern neighbour…