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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...

Not only is Donald Trump back in the White House, but the far right is poised to occupy the Austrian chancellorship for the first time in the country’s postwar history, and Germany is hurtling toward a fraught election next month, following the collapse of its...

When US President Donald Trump unveiled his government’s plan for big investment for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a stark warning about AI’s global threats at the recent World Economic Forum summit in Davos, the two underlined...

Eighty years ago, on 27 January 1945, the concentration and extermination camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. Over a million people declared by the Nazis as “opponents of the regime” or “sub-human” were murdered there between 1940 and 1945. They...

Acounterfactual is thinking about something that might have happened but did not happen. As we celebrate yet another Republic Day, there is occasion to think of a different kind of constitution, one that India chose against. As Congress president in 1946 Abul Kalam Azad concluded that...

Argentina has sparked a global conversation with its decision to introduce a mandatory ‘suitability test’ for 40,000 public servants, a move aimed at streamlining government operations. As announced by presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni, the policy mandates that employees on temporary contracts pass an online examination...

The conspicuous presence of the three American tycoons – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos – in the forefront of the ceremony installing the new US President Donald Trump 20 January for the second time is no coincidence. It is a clear signal of...

Even before his inauguration as US President for the second term 20 January, Donald Trump had scored two big wins – having a hand in the release of hostages to Israel by Hamas as part of a Gaza ceasefi re deal and saving TikTok, at...

After fifteen months of relentless violence, peace, though in a fragile form, is finally returning to Gaza and its 2.2 million unfortunate citizens. The long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt commenced after a three-hour delay at 11:15...

What are the problems affecting those countries that made up pre-1947 India? There appear to be three important ones which are common to all three large South Asian nations. The first is poverty and insufficient economic growth. The second is an inward-facing nationalism that is...