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The world can breathe a little more easily now since the two great powers – the US and China – have decided to call a truce and give up the path of brinkmanship. At least an illusion has been created to this effect. The optimists...

A newspaper earlier this year reported that print media advertising had grown to Rs.16,000 crore in 2021, rising from Rs. 12,000 crore in 2020. This year, it would be Rs. 18,000 crore, the report said, with newspapers and magazines getting a share of 20% of...

The Uttarakhand government has moved swiftly to revoke the recent ban announced by Uttarakhand Ayurveda and Unani Licensing Authority on the production of five products of yoga guru Baba Ramdev. A fresh order issued by Uttarakhand drug regulator Dr GCN Jangapangi now states that the...

Just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has highlighted Europe’s dangerous dependence on fossil fuels, increasingly frequent and intense climate-driven weather events are highlighting the death and destruction that fossil-fuel dependence has wrought. Understandably, political and public pressure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, move away from insecure...

The misplaced confidence of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das may have made him gloat over the INR strengthening because it went up 63 paise against the dollar one fine day recently. But then it crashed again the very next day. It is obvious India’s economy is...

The political outlook of the US now looks considerably different from what it was just a week ago before the midterm elections were held. Going by past records, pollsters were then predicting a rout of the Democrats and a surge of the red wave, meaning...

Social networks and tech companies the world over are sending out gloomy information about mass layoffs and job cuts. This has already sent shockwaves among highly skilled workforce and aspiring youths, including thousands in India. Tech giants such as Twitter, Facebook and Amazon have drawn...

This morning brought the headline “Centre’s silence on judicial postings condemnable: Supreme Court.” The report said the government neither appointed the persons selected by the judiciary or communicated its reservation, if it had any, on the names. The court noted that it was a challenge...

Last month, this column reported that the withdrawal of multiple incentives and allowances given to IAS and IPS officers posted in the northeast region had left these babus resentful. Since then, the Centre reviewed its order, but the officers are reportedly still unhappy. The Centre...

How is it that a man who has banned 83 million people from Twitter can freely use the platform to post his messages denigrating women and supporting the brutal attack on the writer Salman Rushdie? I’m referring to the leader of the Islamic Republic of...