Opinion

By Brahma Chellaney On his recent visit to India, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio predictably touted India as one of America’s “most important strategic partners,” citing the two countries’ shared values, “people-to-people ties,” and strategic alignment on “all of the key issues that will define...

Ibiza is known as the ‘Island of Fragrance’, ‘Balsam Island’, ‘Island of Pines’, Island of Pleasure’, and ‘Island of Endless Parties’. These titles derive from the island’s aromatic plants and flowers, pine trees, and nightlife. It is the third largest Balearic Island in the Mediterranean...

History will decide how the Supreme Court judgement on the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) that has led to large-scale exclusion of voters in elections in West Bengal and other states will be viewed. The verdict pronounced by the bench of Chief Justice Surya...

Environmental and climate concerns appear to be in retreat worldwide. The word sustainability has become politically charged; the Trump administration openly mocks corporate ESG (environmental, social, governance) criteria, and many companies are shelving their net-zero-emissions pledges. But look beneath the surface, and you will see...

Sagari Gupta Odisha’s drought-relief system is being reshaped through a combination of rural-employment restructuring, fiscal controls, and disaster-financing rules. The transition from MGNREGA to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G, is not merely a change in programme design....

Carolina Alves Governments around the world are struggling to devise a sensible approach to managing inflation and disruptions to production and the supply of basic goods. The UK Treasury, for example, has just issued a proposal to encourage supermarkets to cap prices on essentials (such...

Inflation in India is not merely the result of global shocks; it is increasingly a product of high fuel taxes, cesses and pricing policies that amplify costs across the economy. The country’s heavy dependence on petroleum and gas—further entrenched by schemes such as Ujjwala—has made...

Against the backdrop of major global geopolitical tensions, the European Union and India continue to move forward with one of their most ambitious economic projects: the EU–India Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Negotiations had formally concluded in January 2026, but the treaty is still far from...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal The true measure of a civilization lies in how it treats its most vulnerable members and in the Indian ethos, no group is more revered, at least in rhetoric, than our senior citizens. However, as India rapidly transitions from a collection...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee As per latest reports all 50 of the world’s hottest cities are in India as a brutal heatwave tightened its grip, pushing temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius, sometimes even before noon. What makes the heat unbearable is the ‘real feel’ temperature...