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US President Donald Trump is opening new theatres of his global tariff war. This appears to be a strategy he is determined to adopt even as his trade war is forcing some of the US-friendly countries to join hands with those with which they do...

Many of the acts of omission and commission by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the recent past have been under question for their perceived bias in favour of the ruling dispensation and against the Opposition. Its latest ongoing exercise of conducting Special Intensive...

One of the most remarkable democratic developments of recent times came from New York City this month. A 33-year-old man of Indian origin won the Democratic Party nomination to run for mayor of the city. The nomination is a sort of semi-final match, but because...

It’s hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura’s cadre as a crypto-threshold moment. Between 2019 and 2023, young administrative talent from IAS batches of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and even 2023 have been migrating, often in tandem with...

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the RSS headquarters are located, he expressed concern over the “rising” number of poor. He said wealth was “getting concentrated” in the hands of some affluent...

The coming together of the Thackeray cousins – Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray – on 5 July, two decades after they had fallen out, could not have happened at a more opportune time. The...

Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh’s candid revelations about Operation Sindoor at a FICCI event ‘New Age Military Technologies’ on 4 July in New Delhi bring home the fact that India faces a multi-pronged threat when it comes to dealing with...

The BJP’s constitution (Article 3) says, “Integral Humanism shall be the philosophy of the party.” The party’s membership form has a pledge which members are required to take. The first line of this pledge is: “I believe in Integral Humanism which is the basic philosophy...

India’s espionage architecture is quietly shifting. The appointment of Parag Jain as the new chief of RAW comes at a particularly volatile moment globally. Iran has just executed alleged Mossad assets and detained hundreds, reportedly triggering emergency backchannel coordination by several countries, including India. A...

Revolting against oppression and seeking freedom is ingrained in human nature, something that a repressive regime finds out sooner or later. Change is the only constant, and therefore, it is difficult to hold people under sway for an indefinite period of time through aggressive measures....