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Finally, Chief Minister of Manipur N Biren Singh has resigned. He took an inordinately long time to step down as he was allowed to remain in power when the north-eastern state was literally burning with the worst ever clashes in recent times between ethnic groups....

It is an irony of fate that the party that had stormed into power on the promise of fighting against corruption finally fell under the weight of allegations of corruption and its failure to fulfil its electoral pledges. Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) drubbing...

Last month, on 22 January, three companies and US President Donald Trump announced a $500-billion project to build data centres and electricity plants and continue American dominance in artificial intelligence. Five days later, a Chinese AI chatbot named DeepSeek became the number one download on...

Prakash Mishra is back in the spotlight. The BJP-led Odisha government has appointed the retired IPS officer as an advisor to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi—with cabinet rank, no less. That’s a big deal, not just for Mishra but also for Odisha’s political landscape. Mishra’s...

After the release of DeepSeek-R1 on 20 January triggered a massive drop in chipmaker Nvidia’s share price and sharp declines in various other tech companies’ valuations, some declared this a “Sputnik moment” in the Sino-American race for supremacy in artificial intelligence. While America’s AI industry...

What was being feared about the widespread disaster that Donald Trump’s presidency would cause has started to come true within days of his assumption of office. The Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid threatens to derail global efforts to fight disease outbreaks, counter terrorism and...

Palestinians are returning home to northern Gaza, though hardly any structure of their homes still stands. Their hospitals, schools and other basic infrastructure have been reduced to rubble in the wake of incessant and systematic bombardment by Israeli forces. Yet, amid the destruction, scenes of...

Aglobal trade war seems to have been switched on. US President Donald Trump has just done what he had been threatening to do all through his presidential campaign: imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, his country’s three biggest trading partners. Trump on 1 February...

There are two big ideas that India’s Prime Minister is committed to, and this commitment of his has shown itself over his years as leader. The first is to birth a developed nation by 2047. India is to become like the United States and China,...

The Union Cabinet’s new Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) has set tongues wagging. Touted as a clever blend of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and the National Pension System (NPS), it’s worth asking—does it bring anything new to the table, or is it just a repackaged...