Sugar export ban reflects a policy problem
India’s sugar policy is slipping into a familiar pattern. When production rises, exports are encouraged. When supply tightens, exports are restricted.
India’s sugar policy is slipping into a familiar pattern. When production rises, exports are encouraged. When supply tightens, exports are restricted.
For someone who had spent most of his life studying constructed languages, the idea of constructing his own death would certainly have amused him. The flood of social media posts and the exchange of messages among Esperantists and linguists from across the world soon confirmed that this was no joke.
Five years after Myanmar's military seized power and plunged the country into a prolonged civil conflict, a new reality is emerging across Asia.
The controversy surrounding the Delhi Gymkhana Club is no longer only about one institution in Lutyens’ Delhi.
On 22 May 2026, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs issued an eviction order directing the historic 113-year- old Delhi Gymkhana Club to vacate its 27.3-acre Lutyens’ Delhi premises by June 5.
The visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India has exposed a reality that both Washington and New Delhi increasingly understand but rarely talk of openly: the India-US relationship is no longer driven by sentiment, democratic rhetoric or shared slogans about the “free world”.
The US-Israel-Iran war has brought our vulnerabilities into sharp focus; on one side is the US led by Donald Trump, who does not respect any middle ground ~ even a stray comment invites the danger of being ‘tariffed’ ~ and on the other side is Iran, which controls the Straits of Hormuz, a passageway for most of our oil and gas.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is far more than a routine administrative exercise; it is the ultimate repository of dreams for millions of young Indians striving to enter the medical profession.
India’s food economy is entering a dangerous phase ~ not necessarily because adulteration is new, but because public trust is beginning to collapse faster than the state can restore it.
The story of Bengal’s decline is not merely an economic one ~ it is a narrative of complete cultural and intellectual transformation.
