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World’s response to warming is reckless

Fireworks at America’s 250th birthday bash, claimed to be the ‘best firework show ever!’ by President Donald Trump, is the new low in sending poisonous gases into the atmosphere. Over 40 minutes, 851,000 individual shells were fired.

Hydrogen rail signals clean energy leap

Prime Minister Modi flagged off India’s first indigenous hydrogen powered train on the Jind–Sonipat section, marking a historic leap in clean mobility and Atmanirbhar Bharat vision.

Cockroach Rising

What began as an irreverent internet joke has acquired the unmistakable weight of a political movement.

Choice Reimagined

The return of arranged marriages among sections of India’s younger generation is less a rejection of modernity than an indictment of the digital age’s promise that technology could simplify the search for lifelong companionship.

Intimacy Transformed

India is undergoing a quiet yet consequential transformation ~ one unfolding not in legislatures or courtrooms, but in bedrooms, on smartphones, and across digital platforms where intimacy has become increasingly accessible, negotiable, and transient.

Climate actions must be scrutinised

Annual conferences organized by UNFCCC to review climate actions like funding poor nations to cover loss and damage inflicted by global warming and transitioning away to green energy have not resulted in concrete actions.

Unfinished Promise

The horror of a particularly brutal sexual assault in Bihar's Begusarai has once again provoked national outrage and revived memories of the crime that shook Delhi and India in December 2012. Such comparisons are understandable.

Changing Mandate

The resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than two years after leading Labour to a commanding parliamentary majority is not just a political fall.

A barrier to growth

The vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 dreaming to transform India into a developed nation by the centenary of its independence is very often dominated by and confined to economic growth, infrastructure expansion, technological advancement, and global leadership.

Ocean will make this India’s maritime century

The 21st century is increasingly b eing described as the Indian Ocean Century. As the global economic centre of gravity shifts from the Atlantic to Asia, the vast maritime region stretching from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific has emerged as the world's busiest and most strategically important sea space.