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By Dilip Cherian There’s a familiar outrage cycle in India: a project stalls, costs spiral, and we instinctively reach for the “corruption” label. It’s neat, satisfying, and often incomplete. Because sometimes, the system isn’t leaking. It’s freezing. Take the coal block allocation case. A Delhi...

It is the fifth week running since US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war against Iran. But till date no clear strategy and goal for the unprovoked and one-sided war have been defi ned. The US is relentlessly continuing...

While a big war is being waged in the Middle East, global attention has moved away from another theatre of genocidal war and ethnic cleansing. The perpetrators are taking full advantage of the situation. Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing has been nominated for the...

Fuel has been a long-time great economic and political tool in the hands of the government in India. It enables the government to make windfall gains when crude prices fall, and with the earnings, it makes its budgetary allocations according to its policies, which cater...

Consider this thought experiment. Imagine that two large missiles struck the White House. The first hit the residential quarters at a time when the family were all home. President Trump, his wife, Melania, his sons Donald and Eric and their wives and their children. Imagine...

The news that a clutch of Bihar’s senior babus may soon head to Delhi on Central deputation, in the wake of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s move to the Rajya Sabha, says something important about how power really travels in India: it rarely travels alone. Governments...

  The big question being asked 24 hours after US President Donald Trump announced a five-day pause on the ongoing US-Israel war on 23 March is whether any talks were held at all, as claimed by Trump, between the US and Iran to end the...

In a major development on 23 March, US President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post 23 days after the US-Israel war against Iran that he has instructed the defence department to postpone all airstrikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a...

The world is reeling under an unprecedented fuel and gas crisis. The prevailing situation is creating panic in domestic kitchens, restaurants, hostels, petrol bunks, gas stations and threatening to cripple the world economy, while worse is yet to come. All this because of a thoughtless,...

I want Iran to win. What does win mean? Iran defines it in the following way: The United States of America must lift its decades-old sanctions on Iran; it must dismantle its military bases in the Arab states; Israel must end its occupation of Lebanon;...