Lieutenant Sheetal Melhan is among the first batch of women officers to graduate from...
Through his commitment to democratic norms, debate, dissent and constitutionalism,...
A sovereign cloud, our own DNS root and Root CA, a defence-led research base that...
'...because that protects their aviation industry.''The Boeing 787 is one of the most...
Aligarh resident Habib Saifi has built a small hut-like structure on his bike to...
'Something could happen to me... I understood that day itself that what they had sent...
'You think it is written somewhere that she will not? She might escape for two months,...
India's foreign policy establishment is adjusting with alacrity in real time -- an...
Delhi Police have apprehended Firoj Alam, a man accused of robbing a mobile phone from...
Immigrants' contribution to the US economy is disproportionate to their share of the...
'It will take a long time to recover from the impact of this war.'
As Shastri Bhawan nears demolition, one of Delhi's most iconic government buildings...
As AI enters astrology apps and predictions, technology is becoming a new interface for...
'The US was well aware of the nationality of the seafarers on board the vessels. It was...
Major Jojy Joseph led from the front. Laid down his life. In the service of the nation.
To get its act going in Myanmar, India would need very dynamic diplomacy and not the...
'The position of Karachi depicted at that time and the intense rivalry among the...
Both the political executive in New Delhi and the newly elected political dispensation...
'The generational shift belongs to Vijay, Udhayanidhi and Annamalai.''The BJP cannot...
After living in India's most palatial residence for 12 years, India's first President...
'It's a bit uncertain. Let's see what happens. But he is the top man of Assam, and...
'We can never trust the BJP when it comes to elections.'
The rejection of senior Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination papers...
Few leaders since Independence have been able to establish such a direct connection...
'Now if you break the party under the 10th Schedule you have to join another party.'...
India generates 9.3 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, nearly 20 per cent of the...
The falling Total Fertility Rate offers India a chance to become the Pandavas -- fewer...
If one has to compare the tenures of the two prime ministers one must credit Nehru with...
'Those who have drained Mamata Banerjee's blood -- they are the ones calling us traitors.'
Dr Subhash Kashyap not only enhanced Parliament's image in India and abroad, but also...
A lesson for India is to clearly define objectives beforehand, so that the adversary or...
'Once the numbers come out, they fear that the OBCs would start to demand, and...
'Refined carbohydrates are the quiet troublemaker in our diet.' 'We eat plenty of...
A wellspring fuelling the CJP tsunami is the high levels of youth unemployment.Millions...
While tensions have eased at several friction points and mechanisms for managing the...
'Delimitation is scheduled for 2028. No matter how much the BJP currently depends on...
'We won not (only) because we were able to carry out long-range precision...
'In the (election) affidavit, he had declared Rs 1,400 crores as his assets. He has...
'It all depends on how Shivakumar uses him and treats him.'
'You have seen the retrenchments by big corporates in the IT industry because they are...
'Mamata was more feared than loved, and in politics when people start fearing you then...
Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda has called for a special session of the...
'We caught General Pervez Musharraf talking over the phone with his Chief of General...
'Present day youth are not interested in the past. They want to see what you are going...
'Unfortunately, today most ministers are busy with either election duty or praising...
TeamLease Co-founder Manish Sabharwal on why regulatory cholesterol is killing India's...
'Shivakumar's relationship with the BJP and the RSS is not adversarial in the way...
The amazing story of how a little known cheese from Ladakh stunned the world!
Bihar's greatest resource is not beneath its soil but above it -- its people.With a...
Sacred spots and soaring peaks: Bucket-listing across the heartland.Roopa Unnikrishnan...
If Iran and Oman choose to charge a fee for rendering services to vessels using their...
'The software vendor had a black mark against him and yet they went ahead with him. Why...
The US-China rapprochement, however tenuous, is not without implications for India....
'Both men understand the stakes. They are not about to squander what they have.'
A few frantic calls later, the answer emerged: She had missed her connecting flight in...
'People don't like leaders who just crib and complain without offering a clear...
Insights from behavioural economics suggest that an ambitious nudge can be effective if...
'Congress needs a positive agenda rather than primarily picking up on two business...
If TVK MLAs and ministers are perceived as clean, or demonstrably cleaner than their...
We who were dreaming of being the third largest economy in dollar terms, have slid back...
The Beijing summit may have reduced immediate diplomatic uncertainty, but it did not...
How India overcame umpteen odds to reintroduce the cheetah on its territory after the...
'We should expect extreme heat, extreme rains, floods, landslides and maybe cyclones....
Following through announcements with enforcement of measures is key, as a run through...
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have been fiscally stressed for a considerable...
Vietnam is an emerging regional power and a closer relationship with Hanoi is closely...
'Why are we deliberately taking apart an electoral system that has worked?''There is no...
'The most enduring part of Satheesan's personality is he is good at heart. That is the...
India would confront a more entrenched China, a less dependable United States, and a...
'On the day of the results itself, Vijay personally requested Rahul Gandhi for support...
'If Congress had aligned with the TVK before the election, we would have won almost a...
Delhi must now purge the delusional hopes of being a 'counterweight' to China in the US...
'Look at the way SIR that was implemented in Bengal. They wanted to entirely curate the...
'98 lakhs in Bengal, 97 lakhs in Tamil Nadu, 2.83 crores in Uttar Pradesh.'
The Gandhis have served both the Congress and India. But it has been 12 years since the...
Chinese leaders, including its generals, will have to weigh whether they can win a war...
'Unfortunately the treasury is empty, in zero. So we have to first make money for the...
'Every year we import approximately $70 billion worth of gold -- closer to $72 billion...
'In all these years of rupee depreciation, of rising oil prices, of inflation caused by...
The only thing that might make the BJP stop trying to isolate Muslims completely will...
Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested a suspected shooter linked to the Jitender...
'...the enormous responsibility and faith the youth has put on his shoulders, that he...
Mangoes, Thums Up, Ludo, Train journeys, Video cassettes, Wimbledon -- a love letter to...
Most defections originated from three major parties -- the Congress, BJP and BSP.
India is the only significant power that all parties trust, or at least do not...
'22 students are fighting over 35,000 seats. In that situation, when someone tells a...
Frankly, was it really necessary in the middle of a fratricidal war for External...
'He worked over time to become the natural claimant,' a senior UDF leader observed....
'When I asked Suvendu about the news that Didi was going to fight in his constituency,...
'...especially pressure on the rupee, the current account deficit, and foreign exchange...
For India, China's Indian Ocean power projection, maritime domain awareness, dual-use...
'Vijay entered politics at a much better age compared to Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan....
'Vijay did not defeat Dravidian politics from outside. He entered the Dravidian field...
'At the first sign of real trouble, that money will move. There will be a run.'
'What exactly is on the prime minister's mind, we do not know. But it feels like the...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted some 20 per cent of the global flows...
Already, within the week of the election results it became apparent that the Congress'...
This is the time for India to plan forward fully, with the goal of Atmanirbharata, and...
'India's security challenges are no longer confined to the Line of Control or the Line...
The new BJP government also appointed IAS officer Shantanu Bala as the chief minister's...
Occasionally, the silence of the night shift would be shattered by an ear-splitting...
The electorate did not vote for the BJP as much as they voted against the TMC. This is...
Courts cannot be the only hope for those fighting hate speech. Countering its effects...
By asking Vijay to produce letters of majority support before inviting him to form the...
'Among the leaders whose names are going around, V D Satheesan is the leader who will...
Kerala's voters are sophisticated, educated, and unforgiving. They have once again made...
As Vijay prepares for his next innings as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, he would do...
'Looking at the situation purely on its Constitutional merits, the governor's conduct...
'In West Bengal, the BJP's ideology of Hindutva will be customised to cater to the...
'If you read the TVK manifesto, it is doles and much more doles. But the state has been...
If current trends persist, the Congress risks becoming increasingly regionally...
The extent of doubts over the fairness of this election can be assessed by juxtaposing...
'They will have to adjust themselves to the new reality. Because if they don't...
'The next five years are crucial because Assam, West Bengal and Bihar are either...
'The TVK might form a minority government.'
'...appearing culturally coercive or administratively vindictive.''If it governs as a...
'This is a major rupture in Tamil Nadu's political order.''For the Dravidian parties,...
The BJP must respect Bengal's pluralistic ethos and with this historic mandate give the...
'If the Opposition associates itself too much with the minorities, then it becomes easy...
'The real fault line in Assam is not Hindu versus Muslim. It is Assamese versus Bengali...
'Tamil Nadu has 42% of its population in the 18 to 39 age group. The bulk of the...
A BJP government in Bengal inherits more problems than it might care to admit at its...
Hopefully, the BJP will realise that it's the right time for parivartan (change) in its...
'The nepotism, corruption, bad governance and 15 years of rampant crime that has...
Unlike films that end with the underdog becoming winner and being sworn in at a public...
'Even if they align with the TVK now, I don't think the AIADMK leadership will...
'If planets are, as many of your own geophysicists argue, bodies shaped by their own...
I wonder if I can rest assured -- before the election ink on my finger fades -- that my...
If Trump doesn't like India, that is his choice. But to use such distasteful language...
The BJP, especially in its current edition under the prime minister, is clear that it...
If West Bengal does not begin to reclaim its lost pride, the state would have lost --...
Beijing has been wary of Sanae Takaichi's efforts to boost Japan's military profile...
The US military is considering a new wave of military operations in Iran, including...
'Narendra Modi -- a man with deep and vital experience of Indian politics -- has seen...
Maharashtra minister Pratap Sarnaik announced a special verification drive from May 1...
He was childlike with a camera in his hands -- not naïve, but wonderstruck, as though...
The United States' historical strategic alignment with Pakistan, dating back to the...
'It was diminishing even before Trump came to power.''The US was at the centre of the...
'Even if the war ends tomorrow, which is unlikely, and we go back to the pre-war status...
'Workers are the people who create all the wealth in this country. How can you call...
'I cannot imagine that any NSA before Ajit Doval would have given us this kind of time...
'The entire party is centred around one man and that is Arvind Kejriwal.''Till the time...
The US blockade on Iranian ports is aimed to curb Iranian energy exports, thereby...
Karex, the Malaysian company that makes roughly one in five of the world's condoms --...
'Nepal today is far more aware, self-confident, aspirational, and assertive.''India's...
From boardrooms to ballrooms -- Indrani Mukerjea is back, unbothered, unstoppable, and...
We, Indians, forgot that for Pakistan, Kashmir dispute and blood feud with India is the...
'Monsoon is the pran (life) of our water system.''A weak monsoon will have a very...
The investigation into Sheena Bora's murder, and, later, the case, leans heavily on the...
If Trump wants peace with Iran, Pakistan will offer to help. If Trump seeks Pakistan's...
...reopen for up to six months.Until then, the Strait stays nearly closed. The world...
Phunchuk Stobdan's forte was candour and strong views on India's defence.Naturally,...
'The AIADMK will lose a lot of votes simply because it is aligned with the BJP.'
There are enough people at the top decision-making level in Tehran who are still...
Sri Lanka's response to the Easter attacks has been slow and politically contested,...
'Remember Vijay had never spoke of himself as a Christian when he was a film star.''The...
Born into a family that survived the Pahalgam terrorist attack on the very day the...
The Centre has appointed lawyer Karambir Singh Nalwa as Special Public Prosecutor to...
...is a way out, notes Prem Panicker in his must read blog on the Iran War.What the...
The Battle of Laungewala fought in the Thar desert saw 120 soldiers heroically defend...
'If the BJP becomes our political identity, our political face, if we are represented...
Trump has made it clear: the US will not lift its blockade of Iranian ports until a...
Whether he comes to power or not, both his admirers and opponents agree on one thing --...
'All terrorists are a blot on humanity.''No religion in the world teaches you to take...
'The reason why they rushed through the bill was they wanted to avoid using the 2026...
Both sides have now revealed a preference for escalation over strategic defeat, and...
'Within the BJP, Samrat Chowdhury confronts a party full of senior leaders with their...
'Samrat Chaudhury's limited independent standing within the party, his reliance on the...
'Iran cannot trust the USA because it considers the USA to be Israel-controlled. And...
'As result, Netanyahu 'convinced' Trump to go to war with the help of overoptimistic...
The Indian Air Force is set to procure a compact, indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle...
What is missing in the BJP's armour is dominance over 50 percent of the electorate:...
'She was not a yes person. She would tell the truth and her feelings to Indira Gandhi,...
Trump has said he would be present at the signing ceremony in Islamabad.Don't be...
This election is different. It is no longer simply about governance or welfare. It is...
'You cannot run Parliament with 800 MPs as nobody will get time (to speak in...
The question is whether the clocks allow enough time for two deeply mistrustful sides...
'The Supreme Court stated that once the delimitation plan is approved by Parliament and...
The clock on the ceasefire is running out. But everyone's already whispering about...
India is one of the few nations, and perhaps the only nation, that has good relations...
Is Bhutan merely experimenting with digital finance -- or is the Himalayan kingdom...
Iran was the chance to arrange a concert of nations, to actually be a...
'The AIADMK front comes second, and then the TVK.'
'All this talk about women's reservation and Nari Shakti is a mirage.''It is a classic...
The intriguing bit is that Trump is likely to attend the talks in Islamabad this...
The cost of the war is being counted not in the corridors of power in Washington or...
'We kept our bags packed, ready to jump into the sea. Many times, I felt it could be my...
'US and Iran have not annulled the ceasefire, and the possibility of continuing...
'EPS exposed all the traitors. The DMK has given them political asylum. They are...
The Dhurandhar movies will undoubtedly shape the minds of the audience much more than...
'A genuine tribute to Dr Ambedkar does not lie in selective invocation. It lies in...
One of the most uncivilised characteristics of this war has been the total disregard...
'The BJP must have decided to replace Nitish with a green signal from JD-U leaders...
The Bombay High Court has referred to a larger bench the question of whether the state...
The ceasefire is still technically holding, to the extent that no overt hostilities...
'Neither do the Israelis. The two attacking parties have very little economic interest...
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, a decorated Kargil War hero known as the 'Lion of Ladakh' and...
Chaffing under public ridicule in the US as well as internationally for having 'lost'...
America's population and its media and its democratic structures seem fine with this,...
Trump seems to have estimated that Ghalibaf is a pragmatic politician who is receptive...
'Gandhi was Thakur and Gabbar was Jinnah.'
The core issues to be settled -- access to Hormuz, Israel's aggression in Lebanon, the...
Uttar Pradesh's electorate has increased by over 84 lakh following the completion of...
The logic of war plus the gathering storms in US politics as the midterms loom large...
As Iran heads into crucial peace talks with the United States of America, here are the...
The delegations from the US and Iran head to Islamabad on Friday, carrying a ceasefire...
'It is going to be a negative vote against the government rather than a positive vote...
'Secularism or social development or social justice is no longer part of development,...
'Technology doesn't decide its destiny-humans do. We choose whether it becomes a weapon...
'The unregulated marketing has to stop. People are getting recommendations for this...
Small parties have the capacity to play both ends against the middle. Puducherry could...
'Who among Opposition party MPs has so much power that they raise some issue and the...
'American stature has been reduced because they have not been able to achieve their aims.'
Nobody takes Pakistan seriously and therefore Pakistan's sudden mediating with almost...
By all available indications, the White House drafted a face-saving note and handed it,...
Trump may strike. He may announce productive talks and extend again. He may do both at...
Kerala's 2026 assembly election will see a three-cornered contest where religion and...
'The BJP and its allies can decide the fate of many candidates.'
Far from it; the country's resistance to the US, its nuclear ambitions, and its pursuit...
'When Narendra Modi was here, he spoke only about development and what the BJP wanted...
The 'rescue' operation occurred within kilometres of Iran's underground tunnel complex...
'The jail staff told me Kasab was served only jail food and not biryani.''They told me...
Although extensive air attacks have been carried out to destroy most of Iran's defence...
The big question is whether Trump is any longer in command of the situation. For all...
'Never before has the Congress been part of a rainbow coalition, and the response from...
As he settled down to his job as army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa -- who died last...
The Congress party has accused the government of scheduling a 'special session' to pass...
The purge in Washington does not pause the war.Strikes continue, Hormuz remains closed,...
'The next two to three weeks will not be decided in Washington.''They will be decided...
'The BJP is pouring in money so that only BJP candidates are visible everywhere.''If...
'It would be similar to what happened during COVID-19.''They are not just losing...
The LPG squeeze on India's restaurant sector is the quotidian face of a deeper crisis.
'In such a scenario, Iran could proclaim itself victor, rebuild, re-enforce its...
'Jews are very much safe in Iran. They are our brothers. There is a difference between...
'What we have yet to see on either the US or the Iranian side is willingness to...