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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...

The great thing that the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan has done by seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and senior Hamas officials is that he has shown the guts to charge...

The cruel irony of the sad demise of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi along with the country’s foreign minister and several other officials 20 May after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region in the country’s northwest is that the chopper was manufactured in the...

The Union Territory of Ladakh carved out of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir in 2019, went to polls today. What makes the contest for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Ladakh, the country’s largest Parliamentary constituency in terms of area, significant is that...