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It was a wintry afternoon on Dec­ember 1 in Nagpur when Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat took the stage and called upon Indian (Hindu) couples to do their patriotic duty—have at least three children. The RSS chief, known for his Hindutva musings and cultural prescriptions, painted a grim picture: “According to population science, […]

In June 2022, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sprang a surprise by choosing Shiv Sena rebel Eknath Shinde as the chief minister of Maharashtra, with their own Devendra Fadnavis, in whose cabinet the former was a minister from 2014-19, as his deputy. Though it was speculated that Fadnavis would be doing some back-seat driving in […]

A US court’s allegations of bribery in solar power contracts and US markets watchdog SEC’s charges of concealing wrongdoings have jolted Gautam Adani’s business empire. Even as he mounts a strong defence against the indictment, the group faces a crisis of investor confidence that may impact its growth plans ISSUE DATE: Dec 9, 2024 | […]

The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia in October may have signalled a thaw in border tensions, but India has been exercising caution in bilateral trade relations, having imposed a series of anti-dumping duties on imports from its northern neighbour this […]

In what is proving to be a major embarrassment for the Indian intell­i­gence establishment, an officer once serving in one of its agencies has been caught with the proverbial smoking gun in the plot to kill the Khalistani separatist and Sikhs For Justice founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York in June 2023. A superseding […]

In February 2024, Colonel Anuj Antal, the adm­inistrative commandant of the army cantonment in the border town of Ferozepur, Punjab, wrote to then governor Banwarilal Purohit, seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enquiry and the registration of an FIR against dis­trict revenue officials for forging records pertaining to 15 acres of land belonging to […]

A colossus cannot be captured in a portrait, for he carries the landscape with him. Ratan Naval Tata could not only see into the distance but also attain to the wingspan required to reach there. He was also one who dared to compose dreams on an epic scale but knew how to symphonise all the […]

On September 17, around 3.30 pm Beirut time, thousands of pagers used by members of the Hezbollah, the Shia militant group, started exploding across Lebanon. The explosions killed 11 and injured 2,700. The next day, it was the turn of walkie talkies they used to blow up, killing over 20 and injuring 450 people. The […]