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Any analysis of the heinous terrorist attack at Pahalgam must begin with an outright condemnation and a deep expression of regret for the loss of innocent lives in the most brutal manner. It must also include a firm resolve to avenge this atrocity against the perpetrators from Pakistan, who, unable …

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s popularity has sunk since his riotous return to the White House, polls showed Wednesday, with Americans criticizing him on key issues of the economy and immigration. The Republican has unleashed a flood of actions -– from sweeping tariffs to immigration crackdowns –- to deliver on …

Ambedkar’s raised finger pointed to an imminent state of bliss. It was just a few miles ahead.  “Ambedkar was a national hero once, but these statues have reduced him to just a god of Dalits.” In a competing environment of statues of gods big and small, a poorly designed statue …

One can hardly say that “the eagle has landed” in the manner of spy thrillers. Intel coding for movement to India of a despised terrorist would be more like, “the carrion crow has been shackled”. For, Tahawwur Rana was not even a terrorist who risked his life to commit violence. …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Bangladesh’s Interim Adviser at the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok on April 4 has caused some controversy, as could have been expected, given our experience of our previous meetings at the level of Foreign Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. Bangladeshi press briefings after these meetings have …

“Are we going to be happy being delivery boys and girls?” Commerce minister Piyush Goyal taunted the Indian startup industry at the 2025 edition of Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi last week. At the annual jamboree organised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade for industry upstarts, …

If there is one quality about the contours of Iran-US relations that isn’t likely to change in the short run, it is its draining nature. When the inauspicious matchup between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president and George W. Bush in the White House escalated hostilities to all-time highs in the …

The short bilateral meeting – a first one too – between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Interim Cabinet Chief Mohammed Yunus, held on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit, grabbed more eyeballs than the proceedings of the summit itself. This meeting was not just about two leaders of …

Can the Waqf Bill be another turning point in Indian history, just as the Shah Bano episode proved to be in the 1980s? Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of Shah Bano, which mandated that she be granted maintenance by her husband in accordance with the civil law of …

On April 2, US President Donald Trump threw a gauntlet to the world and the post-1945 US-constructed global order with across-the-board and significant country-specific tariffs. The tariff rates were higher than what was anticipated even by Trump’s key business supporters in the US. Markets reacted negatively worldwide, falling 10% in …