Opinion

By DK Giri Why Min Aung Hlaing, President of Myanmar chose Delhi as his first visit and what India must do next? Admittedly, in diplomacy, the first visit of a Head of State matters. It tells you who a leader trusts, fears or needs. On...

By Bruhaspati Samal  Every month, millions of Indians silently fight a battle that never makes headlines. A pensioner worries whether his monthly pension will cover rising medical expenses. A government employee struggles to balance school fees, rent and household bills. A worker discovers that the...

By Paula Carvalho Pereda As wars reshape global energy markets, short-term priorities—from securing fossil-fuel supplies to subsidising energy consumption are increasingly clashing with long-term decarbonization goals. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europe scrambled to find alternative sources of liquefied natural gas, boosting investment in...

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...