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How’s India’s economy coping with the war?
April 2, 2026, 8:11 AM IST
India’s goldilocks moment is, perhaps, gone. Oil and gas import bills have been rising, amidst huge uncertainties of supplies. Rupee depreciated 3.5% in the month since the Iran war began, and 10% over the past…
April 2, 2026, 8:11 AM IST
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Starry, starry blight
April 2, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
Maharashtra’s Ashok Kharat is the latest in the long, inglorious line of godless ‘godmen’. Having caused so much shok , he has fittingly come to grief himself. ‘Rigged’ out as an astrologer too, he claimed…
April 2, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
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Starry, starry blight
April 2, 2026, 7:56 AM IST
Maharashtra’s Ashok Kharat is the latest in the long, inglorious line of godless ‘godmen’. Having caused so much shok , he has fittingly come to grief himself. ‘Rigged’ out as an astrologer too, he claimed…
April 2, 2026, 7:56 AM IST
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Art of the state
April 2, 2026, 7:49 AM IST
Francisco Castillo, Iowan and Trump voter, doesn’t want war. Isfahan resident Saman doesn’t want it either. He’s shocked and angry – war is worse than his worst nightmare. But what can they do if their…
April 2, 2026, 7:49 AM IST
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How America bails out Trump
March 24, 2026, 8:17 AM IST
Last year America’s prowess in AI more than offset the damaging economic effects from Trump’s tariffs. Now, different strengths – including energy independence, its army of retail investors, and the dollar’s safe-haven status – are…
March 24, 2026, 8:17 AM IST
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Can Trump bail out Trump?
March 24, 2026, 8:13 AM IST
Trump’s statement yesterday on talks with Iran, has sent a fresh tremor through the already volatile tectonic plates of West Asia – a region where pressure rarely dissipates, only shifts. His claim that “very good…
March 24, 2026, 8:13 AM IST
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Poetry humanises us in violent times
March 24, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
By Sumit Paul Universities around the world are shutting down humanities programmes, saying they don’t lead directly to jobs. But education is not just about employment; it’s about shaping thoughtful, ethical, and empathetic human beings….
March 24, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
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Dead Atomic Clock In Space … Scary Thing On Ground
March 18, 2026, 7:37 AM IST
On March 13, 2026, Isro announced that the atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F had stopped working, with the satellite completing “its 10-year mission life”. While the phrasing was restrained, the impact is worrying. India’s homegrown satellite…
March 18, 2026, 7:37 AM IST
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War and peas
March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST
Much to its indignant distaste, India is willy-nilly getting a taste, literally, of the conflict raging in Iran and neighbouring countries. Iran’s blocking of Strait of Hormuz, which overnight has become an international buzzword, and…
March 18, 2026, 7:22 AM IST
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No Sides? No Problem
March 18, 2026, 7:16 AM IST
Paltrow, at the Oscars, showed, in her silhouette, what it takes to hold it together Who won the Oscars is for movie nerds. For the rest, Academy Awards is a spectacle. Sheer fashion theatre –…
March 18, 2026, 7:16 AM IST
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AI: Top ten & top tensions
February 20, 2026, 8:59 AM IST
This tech is not a story about LLMs & machines, but about less than a dozen people, who’re often battling each other, shaping how the tech evolves. Subplot: who will be remembered & who’ll be…
February 20, 2026, 8:59 AM IST
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Apple a day
February 20, 2026, 8:40 AM IST
Though not quite the ‘Mother of deals’ as the Indo-EU trade pact was gushingly described, the Indo-US handshake on trade might, continuing the family analogy, be called the Auntyji of deals, or bearing Uncle Sam…
February 20, 2026, 8:40 AM IST
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Epstein Pals & ‘Epsteining’
February 20, 2026, 8:30 AM IST
Andrew’s arrest says something good about UK. But no one, anywhere, is investigating the real story Royals are a big deal for the Brit establishment. Therefore UK cops arresting Andrew – an ex-prince is still…
February 20, 2026, 8:30 AM IST
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Summits & realities
February 20, 2026, 8:25 AM IST
There’ll be no global cooperation in AI. But Indian entrepreneurs can pick their niches Around this time six years ago, world was waking up to dangers of a brand-new virus. Was Covid a manmade pandemic?…
February 20, 2026, 8:25 AM IST
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Budgets, billionaires and the art of a bargain
February 8, 2026, 10:29 AM IST
8am I have an investment meeting this afternoon, and I find myself standing in front of the cupboard as though it is about to conduct the meeting on my behalf. My first choice is an orange…
February 8, 2026, 10:29 AM IST
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Ambition alone won’t secure India’s orbits
January 7, 2026, 8:25 AM IST
At the start of 2025, DoS and Isro appeared poised for momentum. A leadership transition had been managed without visible disruption, the mission manifest looked crowded, and the institutional confidence of an organisation shaped by…
January 7, 2026, 8:25 AM IST
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Entropy & Enthalpy: Kali Destroys, Shiv Absorbs
January 7, 2026, 8:22 AM IST
By Partha Sinha Entropy fascinates because it announces itself. It spreads, decays and disperses. It makes noise. Like Kali, it is dramatic, uncompromising and impossible to ignore. Earlier, i wrote about Kali and entropy –…
January 7, 2026, 8:22 AM IST
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AI software is eating the world
January 3, 2026, 8:10 AM IST
When Kennedy said America would put a man on the moon, the goal had a finish line. The whole thing cost about $280bn in today’s money and employed 400,000 people at its peak, but everyone…
January 3, 2026, 8:10 AM IST
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Exit impossible? Go for emotional equilibrium
January 3, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
Sometimes the question before us is simple: should I stay or leave? Some relationships – romantic partnerships, friendships, even certain professional equations – have an exit door. It may take courage to open, but the…
January 3, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
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Burning question
January 3, 2026, 7:51 AM IST
Hong Kong, Goa, and now a Swiss resort. The common thread in these tragedies is human carelessness. What happened in Crans-Montana in the early hours of Jan 1 is still not clear, but survivors have…
January 3, 2026, 7:51 AM IST
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