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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Beyond Hormuz

The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.

Years of Grace

It was in 1982 that Dr Grace McCann Morley was bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India for her stellar contributions to the establishment of the National Museum in New Delhi.

Feisty Fighter

In an era when Indian politics increasingly feels scripted and predictable, there are still moments that disrupt the routine and force a rethink about democratic engagement.

Love punished

The quiet lanes of Umri village in Uttar Pradesh have become the setting for a familiar Indian tragedy: two young people, Kajal and Mohammad Arman, killed not by strangers, but by the idea that love can be a crime.

Calibrating finances

The Report of the 16th Finance Commission (FC) containing recommendations on the devolution of Central taxes and grants to states was tabled in Parliament on Budget day.

Minneapolis leads the resistance to Trump

Last month, businesses, schools, and workplaces across Minnesota in the USA closed in two general strikes to protest President Donald Trump's violent immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, as well as the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.