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One American – a poet (TS Eliot) – wrote many years ago, “April is the cruellest month.” Another American – President Donald Trump – has now in a different context proved the poet right. For, after weeks of threats and backtracking, Trump has finally unveiled...

How do trade wars end? To answer that, we have to ask ourselves, how do wars end? The answer is that once begun, they are not easy to end. Most of the time, trade and diplomacy are conducted outside of the public view. This is...

Former Enforcement Directorate (ED) chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra has been appointed a full-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM). Yes, an investigator is now advising on economic policy. Are we running out of economists, or is the economy now a...

AI “agents” are coming, whether we are ready or not. While there is much uncertainty about when AI models will be able to interact autonomously with digital platforms, other AI tools, and even humans, there can be little doubt that this development will be transformative...

A political earthquake has shaken France and rattled Far-Right parties across the globe after a French court on 31 March convicted Marine Le Pen. Leading France’s Far-Right National Rally party, Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement and has been barred from seeking public office...

A global trend being seen for some time now is the rise of Far-Right outfits taking advantage of the frustration and disenchantment of the people at large over the failure of established political parties to deliver on their promises and mitigate the economic hardships of...

The consequences of mixing business with politics could be devastating. And none should realize this better than Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, whose Tesla electric cars and showrooms are at the receiving end of violent protests from ordinary Americans these days. Their ire is...

Each year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) names those nations whose governments engage in or tolerate “particularly severe” violations of religious freedoms, especially of minorities. It calls such nations Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) and asks the US State Department to...

What a tangled web! The BJP holds the reins both at the Centre and in Delhi, and you’d think this alignment would make the bureaucratic machinery hum like a well-oiled machine, right? Well, not quite. Recently, Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta penned a letter to...

US administration has sharply reduced government support for basic medical research, and under the guise of fighting anti-semitism, Trump has arbitrarily starved some of the country’s leading universities of funds. America’s prodigious wealth and power are founded on two pillars: universities and businesses. The first...