Opinion

Melvin Durai If you've been watching the 2026 FIFA World Cup, you probably noticed something different about this year's matches. About 22 minutes into each half, the referee blows his whistle, and the players take a three-minute hydration break. Three minutes is just the right...

Helena Malikova & Brianna Rock   Europe has a blind spot in its approach to regulating mergers and acquisitions. Big Tech firms are amassing what we call “shadow market power” through potentially anti-competitive strategies that bypass current rules for oversight, investigation, and intervention. Generally, transactions...

Anil Singh The forthcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament in July could become one of the most consequential political tests of the current government. At the centre of the agenda is the possibility of reviving the Delimitation Bill and related constitutional amendments. Far from a technical...

Pratigyan Das A viral crowd-work segment from a stand-up show by comedian Pranit More has created a ruckus on social media. The video clip showed Himanshu Jangra, an audience, recounting a date where he spent Rs 370 on chicken biryani and then suggested that he...

The Rajesh Exports controversy has produced one of the most astonishing numbers in Indian corporate history. The SEBI’s interim order, after two years of initial probe, alleges that the company overstated revenues by Rs15.15 lakh crore between FY21 and FY25. At the centre of the...

When G7 leaders gather in Évian on 15 June, they will confront a postwar order that has run its course. The United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, and other pillars of international cooperation—all founded on the belief that universal rules could underpin global governance—delivered decades...

Dhurjati Mukherjee The outlook for the Indian economy in the current fiscal sadly does not appear quite encouraging, despite growing 7.8% in January-March quarter of the last fiscal. The Reserve Bank of India left the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% but reduced its growth forecast...

Peter Singer Pope Leo XIV deserves great credit for making AI the topic of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitatis. Leo’s call for more thought and action about AI deserves to be heard by policymakers and publics, religious or secular, everywhere. Leo rightly notes that AI...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal India’s demographic dividend is widely celebrated as the engine of its future. The millions of young minds navigating our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are quite literally the future of the nation, tasked with driving economic, technological, and social growth. Yet, as...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The world today is witnessing an unparalleled concentration of wealth. Never before in human history have so few individuals controlled such vast economic resources. While technological innovation, globalization, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and financial markets have created extraordinary opportunities for wealth generation,...