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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

Iran’s streets have again become a national ledger of grievance. The protest wave began in late December 2025 with a familiar trigger: A currency slide and prices that jumped faster than wages. Shopkeepers in Tehran

It is an exciting time to be an author, an illustrator, a publisher — and a reader — of literature for children and young adults

The way income inequality is framed in public debate is a red herring. By associating all talk of equality with resentment, we avoid asking serious questions about inequality’s real effects

I feel the calculation — the constant awareness that if something goes wrong at a protest, if an agent decides I look ‘suspicious’, if I’m pushed or pepper‑sprayed, the burden of proof will fall on

Since the colonial era, many Assamese and indigenous people believe that the migration of Hindu and Muslim Bengali people from across East-Pakistan/Bangladesh had eaten into their land, demography, culture and identity. But the recent Karbi

It suggested a broader shift in how fashion engages with public life. It is no longer enough to be bold. In a sombre political climate, restraint becomes powerful

The judgment denying them bail presents the bureaucratic state as fumbling with “complex proceedings”, and nods in sympathy

The country needs a long-term plan to fix its water quality. But as an immediate measure, the government must put in place water quality monitoring and auditing systems and bolster disease surveillance mechanisms

Brutality isn't coincidental to Trump's programme, it’s central to it. Trump hopes to terrify all other Renee Goods — that is, all the rest of us — into submission

Adolescence is a transitional period, and at some point young people do acquire the capacity to consent to romantic relationships. It does not lend itself to sharp moral/legal cut-offs

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 12, 1986.

In the accusation of sexual misconduct labelled by a shooter against her coach: A grim pattern, but a swifter response

What can the Modi government do in the present situation? It must definitely keep the reform moment going

The US’s intervention is in many ways a replay of what happened in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. The response to such attacks cannot be cosmetic

Not alleviating poverty preventable by entrepreneurship is a form of violence, yet entitled dynasts continue to peddle dated ideology that views suited booted entrepreneurs as predators

Achieving high-income status would require sustaining 8 per cent real growth for two decades in a sustainable, employment generating manner

Unlikely partnerships stitched up in Ambernath and Akot, between BJP and Congress, and between BJP and AIMIM, point to a pervasive reality: Despite the rhetoric and reality of political-ideological polarisation at the top, there is

The trendline in multiple reports is consistent. e Indian enrolments in Germany are rising as US applications fall. What students now hope for is delivery with faster recognition of qualifications, stronger language pathways, affordable housing,

What should worry the Government of India now is the growing mistrust between it and us the people.

Perhaps the way to see New Year’s resolutions isn’t the fact that they’re almost certainly doomed to fail, but that by making them we’re forced to critically evaluate our lives, and at least think about

The surprise appointment of Nitin Nabin, 46, the relatively inexperienced MLA from Bihar, as BJP working president is the upshot of a long-standing tug-of-war between the RSS and the two-member BJP high command as to

Having climbed high, India has their heads in the clouds. They have forgotten those on whose shoulders they stand, the neighbours who helped and their commitment to the sport that has made them prosperous. 

Two hundred years after the Monroe Doctrine was declared by the 5th President of the United States, and despite the widespread doubt about its power and efficacy, the doctrine was invoked by the 47th President