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Iran has made an intelligent move to send its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. The aim seems to be to force the US to return to the negotiating table on mutually agreed terms instead of letting US President Donald Trump...

The latest projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offer a sobering snapshot of India’s economic trajectory. As per IMF estimates, Bangladesh may once again edge past India in per capita income in 2026. Bangladesh’s per capita GDP is projected at $2,911, higher than India’s...

Aakar Patel A story under this headline was reported this month: ‘No Muslim name finds place in BJP’s Bengal list’. The story went on to provide readers with the numbers—that is to say, how many tickets were distributed and so on—but beyond that headline, there...

By Dilip Cherian The Centre’s latest appointment of 48 babus at the joint secretary level across ministries looks routine on the surface. It isn’t. When postings cut across agriculture, commerce, defence, civil aviation and home, it’s less about filling vacancies and more about recalibrating the...

The disruption in the supply of cooking gas (LPG) and petrol is one aspect of the economic crisis caused by the one-sided war launched by the US-Israel combine against Iran. The bigger picture of the global economic dislocation has been drawn by the International Monetary...

It is a patently false contention to tell religious leaders to mind things moral and spiritual and leave temporal or materialistic management of human affairs to politicians alone. In other words, the segregation of religious bodies and the state can be acceptable up to a...

The defeat of the Bill linked to women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha on 17 April is not merely a legislative setback for the government. It is a revealing episode in India’s political theatre, one that exposes how a widely supported democratic reform can be...

By Aakar Patel What explains our inability or, if we are to be charitable, our reticence, to influence the world around us? Like the rest of the world, India is negatively affected by the American-Israeli war on Iran. Indeed, Indians have suffered and continue to...

By Dilip Cherian If you thought turf wars in Delhi were messy, Tamil Nadu has just offered a tighter, sharper version: two authorities, one post, and zero clarity. In the middle of election-season churn triggered by the Election Commission of India, a new DGP took...

It is not difficult to understand US President Donald Trump’s latest strategy of the US Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. It is clearly intended to cripple the main source of Iran’s economy and is essentially a posturing for greater leverage to force Iran...