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On World Environment Day, 5 June, India launched E85, that is, petrol blended with 85 per cent ethanol at 48 public sector fuel stations in various parts of the country exclusively for flex-fuel vehicles. Priced about Rs 20 cheaper per litre than conventional petrol, E85...

By Aakar Patel Friend Ram Madhav has written a fine piece on Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaching an important milestone. On June 10, he writes, Modi completes 4,399 days in office uninterruptedly as Prime Minister, overtaking Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of 4,398 days. The awkward word...

By Dilip Cherian The Centre’s decision to significantly expand the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a lot more than a routine cadre restructuring. It marks the formal recognition of a reality that the ED is no longer a niche financial investigation agency but one of the...

The ongoing visit of Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing to India is fraught with geopolitical significance. India's reputation as a champion of democracy is also on a test as no other neighboring nation has invited Hlang for a visit. Only less than two months back...

An unwarranted observation by the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has stirred the Indian youth out of its seeming torpor. When the young generation was rising and using its power to cause unprecedented political upheaval using social media and effect regime change in neighbouring...

Prominent Muslim voices have asked the Prime Minister of India to declare the cow a national animal and subsequently ban its slaughter across the country. The head of India’s largest body of clerics, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani, stated that Muslims would have no...

By Aakar Patel Prominent Muslim voices have asked the Prime Minister of India to declare the cow a national animal and subsequently ban its slaughter across the country. The head of India’s largest body of clerics, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani, stated that Muslims...

By Dilip Cherian Is this really the end of the road for the Delhi Gymkhana Club as we have known it? Maybe. And if it is, nobody in Lutyens’ Delhi can honestly say the signs weren’t there. The Centre’s eviction notice to the Delhi Gymkhana...

The Quad meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States in New Delhi 26 May shows that the strategic grouping is still breathing even after the US administration under President Donald Trump pulled the oxygen pipe. Ample proof has been...

As the stalemate in the war between the US-Israel combine and Iran continues, good news has emerged following a social media post of US President Donald Trump that the US and Iran are inching closer to a peace deal. Trump appears to have got the...