In 2024, when I headed Haryana’s narcotics bureau, one of our officers stood before a hall of college students and explained, slide by slide, why drugs are dangerous. Halfway through, a second-year ...
Read moreAn electoral roll is more than a database. It determines who may exercise the franchise, and an error can deprive a citizen of a voice in government. India’s Election Commission has placed an increa ...
Read moreSociologist and activist DaShanne Stokes had said, “Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.” He should have added that propaganda has a limited life; after that the truth emerges. China is a past-mast ...
Read moreChina’s proposal to establish a BRICS open-source artificial-intelligence community deserves attention not merely as another diplomatic announcement, but as a possible attempt to reshape the technol ...
Read moreThe United Nations has been doing its two-penny bit on regulating the use and abuse of outer space ever since man-made objects started operating there. Unlike airspace, where the nations below exercis ...
Read moreThe 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on 12–13 September 2026, reflected the gradual restructuring of global power. Convened amid wars, sanctions, trade disputes and mounting uncertainty, it demo ...
Read moreThe 18th BRICS summit concluded in New Delhi on Sunday on a high note. India, as the host nation, deserves credit for gathering a galaxy of leaders from the Global South and hammering out a declaratio ...
Read moreAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 76, India is approaching another significant milestone. On 7 October 2026, he will complete 25 uninterrupted years in public office - first as Chief Minister of G ...
Read moreIndian public order has no ordinary instrument that separates the individual offender from the crowd he stood in. Until it does, the force meant for one falls on all, and the courts acquit both. Neede ...
Read moreFor decades, politicians, soldiers, ulema, poets, and activists have tried to answer a question that refuses to go away: Is Bangladesh, at its core, a Bengali nation that happens to be Muslim, or a Mu ...
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