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The insults heaped on India by senior officials of the Trump administration, including the PoTUS himself, that have become all too frequent of late, show New Delhi and its foreign policy in a poor light in this fast-evolving new world order. Ever since Donald Trump...

By Aakar Patel I have no problem with the reality that as a nation we cannot always or even mostly get what we want. No nation is truly sovereign in the sense that it can impose itself and its willfully on the world. This is...

By Dilip Cherian Delhi loves a vacancy, especially when it comes with a corner office and access to the Prime Minister’s calendar. With BVR Subrahmanyam finishing his extended run at NITI Aayog, the capital’s favourite parlour game is back: guessing the next CEO. No prize...

US President Donald Trump has made drug trafficked into his country a major reason for his policy of forcing illegal migrants out of the USA, sealing the borders, raiding neighbouring countries to flush out drug cartels and bombing boats with impunity in the Caribbean Sea....

Making a mockery of rule-based international order for one more time, US President Donald Trump, with the help of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has triggered a counter-revolution in Iran to replace the revolution of 1979 brought about by the clerics led by Ayatollah Ruhollah...

With the announcement that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in joint American and Israeli airstrikes, the 86-year-old Iranian supreme leader’s reign has come to a violent close, cementing what many observers call a “lost half-century” for the Iranian nation. For decades, Khamenei governed with...

There are things that this nation is agitated about and there is real news. One of the things we are agitated about, in our media particularly, and in WhatsApp groups, is demographic change and love jihad and the rest of it. Data does not support...

In the latest episode, the Karnataka High Court has declined to quash the defamation proceedings filed by IPS officer D. Roopa Moudgil against IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri. This feud, which began as an unfiltered exchange of accusations and social media posts in 2023, has now...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia believed he could finish off, within months, the conflict that he started on European soil against Ukraine. This war could be labelled the biggest since World War II. But four years to this day, he still has not secured the...

In the just concluded AI Summit at New Delhi, the government of India has majorly played up the issue of this country being “prepared” for Artificial Intelligence. The claim was reinforced weeks earlier in the Union Budget for the financial year 2026-27, which rolled out...