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E-cooking should be way forward

Geopolitical upheaval costs nations, leading to prolonged uncertainty and human sufferings which get compounded by a food and energy crisis.

Keir Starmer addresses media during a press conference in London

Vetting Failure

The controversy surrounding British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States is no longer a narrow dispute about a single decision gone wrong.

When identity becomes destiny

A few months ago, a cultural event in Kolkata centred on the Bengali word heyro. Loosely translated as “loser,” the programme leaned playfully into a familiar trope: the Bengali as a brilliant but impractical figure—intellectually animated yet economically unproductive.

Foreign Funding Oversight Bill to tighten NGO regulations introduced in Lok Sabha

Reform or Strategy

The recent failure to pass a constitutional amendment expanding the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and linking it to women’s reservation is being framed, predictably, as a clash over gender justice.

Lesson from Hungary

Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc.

Shah pitches betel research centre at Chandipur

Seeking to strike a chord with farmers in East Midnapore’s betel-growing belt, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday promised the establishment of a dedicated betel research centre in Chandipur