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Grappling with a counterfeit reality

Recently, the New York State University in the US initiated a programme called ‘NYU in real life’, to promote a student-led culture change of spending less time online and more in living life in person, and creating together a ‘collective effervescence’.

China threat dominates US defence debate

China’s growing military assertiveness and its alignment with Russia, Iran and North Korea emerged as a central theme during a high-stakes US Senate hearing on defence spending, with potential implications for India’s strategic calculus.

Diplomacy Abandoned

When US President Donald Trump abruptly called off a planned diplomatic outreach to Pakistan involving envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Washington’s favourites despite being widely discredited, the move was framed as a matter of efficiency.