Opinion

Terry Lynn Karl US President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to control Venezuela’s oil rest on the assumption that the US can successfully “run” a country twice the size of Iraq. Rather than projecting strength abroad, however, this military overreach reveals the growing vulnerability of a...

By conventional macroeconomic yardsticks, India should enter the FY27 Budget cycle with a degree of comfort. Growth is expected to remain above 7%, inflation has eased from its post-pandemic peaks, and fiscal consolidation appears broadly on track, with the fiscal deficit projected to narrow to...

Nearly two weeks after US special forces invaded Venezuela to capture and extract Nicolás Maduro, many people believe that President Donald Trump was motivated to act by a desire to control the country's vast oil reserves. But to what end? Does Trump want to boost...

Narvijay Yadav People born in the early 1960s carry a rare depth. They stand between two eras. They witnessed the slowest rhythm of life and now observe the fastest phase in human history. This shift is not a concept for them. It is a lived...

Cori Crider When the Economist and Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as their word of the year, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella complained, but few were surprised. The past 18 months have been characterised by an unrelenting flood of brain-rot slop, political slop, scam slop, and, above all, porn...

Infrastructure investment is booming. Around the world, governments are pouring trillions of dollars into roads, power grids, data centres, water systems, and housing, with many responding to intensifying climate shocks and the growing need for adaptation. Yet the construction industry – the single largest force...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra India's aspiration to emerge as a developed economy remains more rhetorical than real. Although the country moved from low-income to lower-middle-income status in 2007, it has remained trapped in this category for nearly two decades. Despite sustained headline growth, India's per...

By Rajdeep Sardesai So who is in charge of India’s foreign policy? On the face of it, that would seem a pretty obvious answer. Dr S Jaishankar as EAM has been the highly visible public face of the Modi government, a peripatetic and seasoned diplomat...

By Jayati Ghosh There is a method behind the apparent madness of US President Donald Trump's transactional, spheres-of-influence approach to geopolitics and the global economy. Nowhere has this logic been clearer than in his administration's illegal abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and its ongoing...

The recent deaths of over 16 persons (with unofficial estimates suggesting the number could be as high as 20), coupled with an outbreak of diseases and the hospitalisation of hundreds in Indore—one of the nation’s most reputedly clean cities—underscore significant concerns regarding drinking water contamination...