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India has been reeling under a bout of unsparing heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, especially in the eastern states of Orissa and Bihar, while extremely high temperatures have shattered previous records at several places across the country. The heat-related deaths in Orissa have...

A groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh has revealed that over 300 million children worldwide fall victim to online sexual exploitation and abuse each year. It means about one in eight children globally is being targeted by unscrupulous operators who use the...

Projecting oneself as a political martyr for being dragged into legal cases is a trick that top politicians the world over often play. In some cases, it pays rich dividends while in others it does not. However, when former US President Donald Trump plays the...

A painfully long election in our hottest summer has ended. The tea leaves will be read in the exit polls but one must keep in mind their imperfect record. Even for a single state, West Bengal which went to election in 2021, one out of...

I n a surprising twist, the Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) postponed the much-awaited interview to select the next chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI). The last-minute decision came just hours before the interviews were set to begin, catching many by surprise. The...

At a time when countless women in India are daily becoming victims of male chauvinism and gender discrimination, two women of the country have made Indians proud by winning coveted prizes on the world stage with their sterling performances. Payal Kapadia and Anasuya Sengupta have...

Distressing news has come from Uttarakhand that 58 pilgrims have died in the last 16 days while on the Char Dham Yatra. Government sources have put daily 3 deaths on an average. The religious fervor spreading across India seems to have had its negative impact...

O minous signals have started emanating from Taiwan hours after the new President Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took charge. He had won the elections with the pledge to defend Taiwan against China’s aggrandisement, while cautiously following the policy of maintaining status...

The Bharatiya Janata Party is India’s largest political force but its ideology is not properly understood. Some aspects of it — the opposition to dynasty, the promise of economic development — are clear, even though these may not be adhered to by the party fully....

I n other news from the diplomatic world, the MEA is knee-deep in an investigation over some shady real estate deals by Indian missions abroad. The MEA had told these missions, which were operating out of rented spaces, to buy land and build embassies. Some...