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Inside the rehearsal tent
26 Jan 2026 12:35 AM ISTThe Olympics are often spoken of in the language of medals, records and national tallies, but their most enduring power lies elsewhere. Long before...
Enforcement Over Optics
24 Jan 2026 12:21 AM ISTIndia’s move to consider shortening the compliance window for Big Tech companies under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, from 18 months...
A Troubling New Forum
22 Jan 2026 10:49 PM ISTThe idea of a “Board of Peace” led by Donald Trump began as a narrow, time-bound mechanism to oversee the fragile Gaza ceasefire. What it has since...
Cost of Crackdowns
22 Jan 2026 1:08 AM ISTWhat is unfolding inside the United States’ immigration enforcement system should concern anyone who still believes that democracies are defined as...
Policy’s Long Shadow
20 Jan 2026 11:36 PM ISTChina’s demographic anxiety is not a sudden policy headache but a recurring civilizational dilemma. For millennia, numbers have been both China’s...
The Representation Question
19 Jan 2026 11:42 PM ISTThe warning sounded by Oxfam this week should not surprise anyone who has watched politics steadily bend towards wealth over the past two decades....
Protecting Fiscal Autonomy
18 Jan 2026 11:32 PM ISTThe Supreme Court’s ruling on the taxability of capital gains arising from Tiger Global’s exit from Flipkart is significant not merely for what it...
Strategic Crossroads
16 Jan 2026 11:46 PM ISTIndia’s uncertainty over the Chabahar port is not about a single infrastructure project; it is about how a rising power navigates a world that is...
Slide from 18th to 140th
16 Jan 2026 12:16 AM ISTHong Kong’s slide from a global symbol of press openness to one of the most constrained media environments in the world is not a matter of rankings...
Crisis Without Exit
15 Jan 2026 12:46 AM ISTIran today feels like a country stretched to its limits, economically exhausted at home and strategically weakened abroad, yet governed by a system...
Economic Hedging
13 Jan 2026 11:56 PM ISTIndia’s negotiations with the European Union on a long-pending free trade agreement have reached a decisive moment, and the timing could hardly be...
Long-Overdue Rewrite
13 Jan 2026 12:38 AM ISTBeginning April 1, India will quietly enter one of its most consequential tax transitions since liberalisation. The Income Tax Act, 2025, replacing...
No Longer Just a Ceremony
24 Jan 2026 11:26 PM ISTCaught Between Two Worlds
24 Jan 2026 11:23 PM ISTAn Unquiet Intellect
24 Jan 2026 11:22 PM ISTWhat Tomorrow Costs
24 Jan 2026 11:20 PM ISTSpeed-Breaker Nation
24 Jan 2026 11:19 PM IST
Mamata calls ECI’s Nat’l Voters’ Day celebration a ‘tragic farce’
26 Jan 2026 1:55 AM ISTGovt announces 131 Padma Awards spanning grassroots heroes, icons
26 Jan 2026 1:48 AM ISTAshoka Chakra for space hero Shubhanshu Shukla
26 Jan 2026 1:46 AM ISTJaishankar hopeful of new phase in India-EU ties as Antonio Costa,...
26 Jan 2026 1:45 AM ISTCinema, music, craft: 11 Bengal luminaries get Padma Shri
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