As the International Energy Agency has underlined, meeting clean energy goals depends largely on how developed economies overcome the recent barriers to climate change mitigation.
Banning the bandhgala, though, doesn't attack the much-reviled ‘colonial mindset’. It just makes alien something that is, by history and use, quintessentially Indian
A narrow and divisive identity politics and political-electoral short-termism climbed centrestage in the campaign for India's financial capital and one of its most cosmopolitan cities
Strengthening people-to-people ties was also a key focus of the Modi-Merz meeting, particularly in the area of skilled labour mobility, given Germany’s labour shortage and rising demand for healthcare professionals amid a shrinking workforce and ageing population.
For over a century, the KGMU has set a high standard for medical education; its graduates serve in hospitals around the country and many of its alumni are among the leading lights of Indian healthcare.
The challenge the world over is to ensure that monetary policy does not become subservient to the executive and subject to the whims and fancies of political leaders. Independence of central banks is a much-valued asset
Tehran has warned that it will retaliate if attacked by the US. This comes less than a year after Iran’s 12-day war with Israel last June, during which US forces bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.
Let's hope that those parents who want their kids to be toppers and brilliant, who push them to be cutthroat in a dog-eat-dog world, spoil the dog – even if they couldn't spare the child
Middle-income countries have the institutional capacity to execute major climate projects. But that means multilateral organisations need to find ways to mitigate the disadvantages of other nations in the Global South
The Opposition should certainly call out the weaponisation of Central agencies by the BJP-led political establishment, just as the BJP did when the CBI was called a “caged parrot” during the UPA regime. But Mamata Banerjee's methods risk undermining her own cause
The Soviet Union warned the United States to weigh “seriously the dangerous consequences” of its actions against Libya. The Soviet Union also said it expected the US to show more restraint and hold back its “overweening partner — Israel”.
The end could have been foretold. The non-viability was first laid bare when England toured India in early 2024. Against high-class spinners on turners, the ultra-aggressive approach looked ultra-foolish
He was a man of both enormous talent and towering ambition, committed to putting life itself on the screen, with all its beauty, banality and tawdriness
