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Why BJP’s Bengal landslide will worry China, US and Pakistan
BJP's Bengal win strengthens PM Modi’s hand in dealing with Bangladesh and with both the great powers – China and the US. Pakistan, too, will be particularly unsettled
- Minhaz Merchant
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
GCCs: India’s golden egg
But Delhi policy wonks just don’t get it. These centres today are drivers of services exports & GDP growth. Now, India needs a policy to make them catalyse our educational, research, and deep-tech ecosystem
- Sujit John
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Religious freedom and the West’s hypocrisy
India’s sharp reply to Dutch criticism framing religious freedom as a civilisational legacy — and marked a tougher pushback against Western scrutiny
- Minhaz Merchant
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
‘Best Sign That Our Trains Got Safer, Is Fewer Headlines!’
GOI’s railways minister argues that the past decade has seen clear policy, sustained funding, and modern technology transform the safety ecosystem of Indian Railways
LeT terrorist Yousaf Afridi killed. How India's enemies are dropping dead in Pakistan
In a pattern that has become familiar over the past few years, a key Lashkar-e-Taiba leader was killed by unknown gunmen just days after another one survived an assassination attempt
- Team TOI Plus
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
‘Brown boy’, ‘sex slave’, ‘I own you’: The allegations against senior JPMorgan executive
A 35-year-old former South Asian-origin employee of JP Morgan Chase has made some shocking claims of being pressured into “non-consensual and humiliating” sexual encounters by a senior female colleague. She has categorically denied all allegations
Can new mRNA vaccine improve survival in India’s toughest cancer?
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers in India, with most cases detected too late for cure. A new mRNA vaccine is showing early promise in trials, but experts say its role, cost and real-world impact remain unclear.
- Lata Mishra
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Your bones may hold key to better blood sugar control
Good metabolic health is linked to bone-forming cells. Here’s how
How Munir and Co used Trump, China and Iran to script Pakistan’s diplomatic comeback
Pakistan used real reasons to get into the act — a border with Iran, a defence security pact with Saudi Arabia, a close strategic relationship with China, and a seat on Trump’s Board of Peace
- Seema Sirohi
- ET Bureau
We Make Bats, We Don’t Call The Shots
Sports goods manufacturing in India has huge economic potential. Yet, Pakistan’s Sialkot outperforms us. For more clusters like Jalandhar & Meerut, policies, investments & infra need to happen in tandem
If you need AI to flirt, should you even be dating?
Are you swiping right on a guy, girl, ChatGPT, or Gemini? Online daters are increasingly wary about profiles and photos souped up by AI and bots steering entire conversations
- Nupur Amarnath
- THE ECONOMIC TIMES
‘Excessive demands, unlawful requests’: Why did US-Iran talks collapse?
Each side blamed the other for the failure of the 21-hour-long negotiations in Pakistan to end fighting that has killed thousands and sent global oil prices soaring since it began over six weeks ago. Here's what we know
- Team TOI Plus
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
The 1890s changed New York. The 1980s changed Singapore. Can the 2020s change Mumbai?
Mumbai is seeing its biggest infrastructure push yet with new expressways, a 16-line metro network, a second international airport, sea links and tunnels. Will it reshape how the city functions? Will it change where its people live and work? Will it improve the quality of life in India’s buzziest metropolis?
- Kailash Babar
- THE ECONOMIC TIMES
Mamata’s Black Robes Point To Grey Areas
Can a former chief minister simply wear an advocate’s gown? The answer matters, otherwise, tomorrow, retired actors may claim surgical privileges because they played doctors
What killed Prateek Yadav? A common condition that doctors call a ‘silent killer’
Pulmonary Thromboembolism causes around 1 lakh annual fatalities in India but since blood clots are invisible, the condition is largely left undiagnosed until it’s too late
Pursuit of Buddha’s Relics
Piprahwa relics are welcome back in India. But it may alter the architecture of restitution – India invoked their return as a right, but the relics returned as part of a private collection on loan to govt
Who is Claire Mazumdar – the 37-year-old set to take over Rs 59,000-cr Biocon
Why Claire Mazumdar? Because, according to her aunt and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, "I think she has proved to me that she can run a company."
- Agencies
BJP is well on its way to creating a ‘regional party-mukt Bharat’
TMC, BJD, Shiv Sena, NCP, AAP and AGP have all become weak, second-rung players in states they once dominated. And it doesn’t look like that the BJP juggernaut is stopping anytime soon, even to catch its breath
- Jayanta KalitaRajesh Sharma
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Why Melbourne’s ‘Little India’ proposal triggered a racist backlash
Meant to celebrate the city’s fastest-growing migrant community, the proposed cultural precinct has instead divided public opinion and unleashed a racist attack on Indians across online platforms
- Alka Dhupkar
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
When The Voice That Once Called Out “Didi” Falls Silent
Defeat has exposed in TMC a rot that runs deep. Plus, like Pawars & Yadavs, Banerjees will see intra-family strains testing political bonds. BJP will be relentless. Mamata’s first test, and a tough one, will be upcoming municipal & panchayat polls
Mind The Real Sikh Aspirations In Punjab
We should not view the state through a ‘Khalistan’ prism. This is a diaspora obsession, which does complicate India’s international relations, but has little to do with improving livelihoods locally
The enemy within: Changing face of rape on screen
No torn blouses, leering villains and revenge sagas. Some filmmakers are moving beyond tropes to confront the ordinariness of sexual offenders and systems that enable everyday harm
- Shruti Sonal
- TNN
Why Peacemakers Are At Sea
US & Iran are taking a high-risk gamble over Hormuz. With doubts hanging over a scheduled second round of talks today, there are three ways this can go. Return to direct conflict. Iran negotiating under pressure. Or a prolonged stalemate
Why Pakistanis are questioning their government’s role in Iran talks
Pakistan’s sudden role in Iran war talks has put it back in the global spotlight. But at home, scepticism runs deep about how much influence it really wields — and who is actually calling the shots.
- Hasan Suroor
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Kerala’s King Cong? Satheesan
Congress had stumbled in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, installing a ‘high command’ compromise instead of the people’s choice. Kerala has voted for a political front, but also a face
Hellhole? As India rises, MAGA fumes
As Indian-Americans excel and India’s economy expands, perceptions are being rewritten. Not everyone in the US is comfortable with that new reality.
- Minhaz Merchant
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
It’s a numbers game
Paul Dirac, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, believed that the universe itself is shaped by deep mathematical laws, remarking that God must be a mathematician of a very high order. If that is so, numbers are not mere tools — they are the language of creation. The Thirukkural has mathematics woven into every fibre of it and Valluvar applied the logic and structure into what the couplets meant as well. Listen in to know more.
Are Bengal’s bhadraloks shifting towards BJP?
If sections of urban Bhadralok decide that voting BJP is a respectable way to remove Mamata, BJP will gain cultural permission from a class that often kept it at a distance in Bengal
'I am a crisis manager. I’ve seen contract disputes become FIRs overnight'
Business in India can turn personal very fast. Sometimes, one soured partnership is all it takes for the police to enter the story
- Vineet Relia
- ET CONTRIBUTORS
What Now In US Politics?
Post-shooting, Trump will get a ratings bump. Question is whether he will squander it by doubling down on the Iran war, misreading public mood again
This super-wealthy Parsi doctor wants to adopt his 43-yr-old caretaker. Will law let him?
Dr Bomsi Wadia, a globally recognised gynaecologist, has moved the Bombay HC to adopt his longtime caregiver, Rajeev Jha — raising questions of rights, legacy, and what defines family in modern India
- Alka DhupkarSunil Baghel
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Washington should know, history’s repeating itself in Tehran
From Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE to 15th century England-France war, and Shivaji’s battles against Mughals, across time and geographies, smaller armies have taken on bigger ones by using low-cost, effective weapons & tactics. Iran’s doing the same against mighty US
- Ashwin Sanghi
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
‘Terroristan’ is unlikely peacemaker, but India should keep its cool
We need to sit this one out. Cursing Pakistan or diminishing its role right now only makes us come across as insecure and having a ‘sour grapes’ reaction
Can Mamata save TMC from splitting after losing Bengal?
After a decisive electoral defeat in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee faces her toughest political reset in decades. Can a leader forged in agitation rebuild a weakened organisation, reclaim public trust, and reposition herself against an entrenched Bharatiya Janata Party government?
- Team TOI Plus
- TNN & Agencies
A chemistry teacher spent hours checking a viral PDF. By midnight, he knew NEET had leaked
The first breakthrough in the NEET scandal did not come from an official raid. It came from a coaching teacher who refused to dismiss a viral document as mere rumour.
For India To Be Strong, Indians Must Kindly Adjust
Country needs time to build up domestic capacities, till then reduce dependence on those ‘perfect’ imports
Opposition should have backed delimitation
Analysts had expected BJP to invoke equal representation to increase the proportion of seats in the Hindi belt, where family planning was weakest, and the population expansion was highest. Instead, it proposed a flat 50% increase in seats for all states regardless of population. BJP has the moral high ground and sounder logic