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In a slow-burning crisis where inaction today guarantees catastrophe tomorrow, leadership that names the problem is leadership that makes solutions possible.

The latest data will raise the pressure on China to allow its currency to strengthen and boost domestic consumption.

By 2024, the cumulative FDI from the EU was around $120 billion, and it offers substantial potential. With focus on areas like electronics and infrastructure, this matches India’s own current areas of interest well. Germany

Do gig workers have a special right to our moral concern, or are they simply part of the considerable number of overworked and underpaid maids, cooks, cab drivers, garbage collectors, chowkidars, and itinerant labourers?

The figure of the king has been a powerful cultural motif over millennia of Iranian history, reinforced by propaganda. Moments of Iranian assertion have coincided with, or been driven by, kings’ assertions of their own

Like a good security system goes beyond the police force, which neither has the time nor the capacity to handle security issues, we need to look beyond the routine health system if we want a

The tariff war unleashed by Donald Trump targeting America’s allies, partners, and rivals jeopardised whatever little consensus that was beginning to take shape to counter China’s industrial overcapacity

As India hosts the 28th Commonwealth Speakers’ Conference, global parliamentary leaders debate AI, social media, and new ways to rebuild democratic trust

It has long been a paradox that the relationship between the world’s largest democracy and Europe’s largest economy has underperformed, a story of ‘all talk and no play’

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 15, 1986.

Much of modern fear arises from the illusion that life must be controlled completely

India’s growth ambition is achievable if financing shifts from a focus on quantity to an emphasis on quality. Rebuilding domestic savings, shifting long-term financing toward markets, improving capital efficiency, and leveraging startups are parallel and

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam has delivered meaningful outcomes like strengthening cultural understanding, fostering academic and people-to-people exchanges and creating lasting bonds between parts of the country that share a civilisational ethos

The tariff wall, along with disputes over market access and India’s pragmatic energy ties with Russia, has transformed the economic landscape from one of cooperation to one of caution. Gor must act as the chief

Of the 70 Dilbert-reading nations, many, including India, were adopting the first world workplace practices that Scott satirised. His career was peaking serendipitously even as national economies globalised, outsourced, and became Internet-driven

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

The leaders exchanged views on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, developments in West Asia, and the Indo-Pacific. While perspectives are not identical, the emphasis was on dialogue, shared principles, and coordination

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

Historical experience suggests that the Iranian people, on their own and without effective international support, have little chance of overcoming such an ideological and violent system

The BMC elections are also the last battle for the Marathi Manoos as a political construct. And it will be fought in an atmosphere where the BJP is using saam, daam, dand, andbheda to cripple

The Genocide Convention enables any state party to bring a case against another, even if it doesn’t have any direct link to the conflict in question — exactly how Gambia could bring Myanmar to the

Living in a “mixed” locality taught me that proximity does not always guarantee connection, but connection is possible when people are open to it

From dried pens to dusty benches, my return to the exam hall as an adult was equal parts panic, nostalgia and joy

Its core promise — that an attack on one is an attack on all — loses meaning if a threat comes from within, prompting smaller allies to hedge or quietly explore alternative security arrangements when