The challenge the world over is to ensure that monetary policy does not become subservient to the executive and subject to the whims and fancies of political leaders. Independence of central banks is a much-valued asset

Tehran has warned that it will retaliate if attacked by the US. This comes less than a year after Iran’s 12-day war with Israel last June, during which US forces bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.

Let's hope that those parents who want their kids to be toppers and brilliant, who push them to be cutthroat in a dog-eat-dog world, spoil the dog – even if they couldn't spare the child

Iran’s streets have again become a national ledger of grievance. The protest wave began in late December 2025 with a familiar trigger: A currency slide and prices that jumped faster than wages. Shopkeepers in Tehran were among the first to register the shock. Anger then travelled from bazaars to neighbourhoods, from the capital to provincial […]

In the accusation of sexual misconduct labelled by a shooter against her coach: A grim pattern, but a swifter response

What can the Modi government do in the present situation? It must definitely keep the reform moment going

Middle-income countries have the institutional capacity to execute major climate projects. But that means multilateral organisations need to find ways to mitigate the disadvantages of other nations in the Global South

The Opposition should certainly call out the weaponisation of Central agencies by the BJP-led political establishment, just as the BJP did when the CBI was called a “caged parrot” during the UPA regime. But Mamata Banerjee's methods risk undermining her own cause

The end could have been foretold. The non-viability was first laid bare when England toured India in early 2024. Against high-class spinners on turners, the ultra-aggressive approach looked ultra-foolish

As 2026 kicks off, the scales seem to be tipping in favour of Team Effort, going by the trending of the concept of “friction-maxxing”.

The latest NMC decision unabashedly short-circuited due process — there was no show-cause notice to the college, no room for appeals.

He was a man of both enormous talent and towering ambition, committed to putting life itself on the screen, with all its beauty, banality and tawdriness

The disaggregated data shows that the sharpest acceleration is observed in the services sector

AQI data show that Delhi's poor air burden is not a seasonal aberration but a round-the-year challenge that varies in intensity across months, weeks, days, even hours

On the face of it, the move is designed to push the world towards cleaner production systems that cut down emissions and slow down climate change. While that is a worthy goal, penalties like the CBAM put an inordinate and unfair onus on developing countries such as India to reduce emissions

When there’s a mounting backlash over colonial loot, perhaps it’s also time to take the romantic sheen off the colonial adventurer

AI can be transformative. Soon, it may even become indispensable. But the rapid scaling of technology must not come at the cost of users’ safety and privacy

Hopefully, there are some more out there, away from the predatory lens, under a rotting log.

The Supreme Court’s decision to deny bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots case, more than five years after their arrest, is an alarming retreat from the Court’s own dictum that bail is the rule and jail is the exception

In the past, it took wars and terror attacks to snap cricket ties. Now, the goal post has shifted. Cricket has gone from being a calming balm to becoming the gunpowder kept ready to fire at short notice.

The world can do little but watch how the US handles the day after in a nation of 28 million people whose sovereignty it has so brazenly breached

With the GST rate cuts clearly impacting revenues, the Centre will have to cut expenditures for meeting its deficit targets.

Vodafone Idea has been in a precarious financial position. As of December 2024, its total debt was around Rs 2.3 lakh crore, comprising AGR dues and spectrum liability

The 74th Constitutional Amendment gave an expansive mandate to municipalities — from planning and land regulation to water supply, sanitation, environmental protection, and slum improvement. More than 30 years later, urban governance bears little resemblance to the vision of the landmark legislation

Piqued by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signalling support for Taiwan in the event of Chinese military action, Beijing has banned the import of seafood from Japan