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Setting climate action in order

India, Feb. 23 -- A study published recently in Nature underlines a rapid acceleration in the melting of glaciers, with 36% higher ice loss between 2012 and 2023 than what occurred between 2000 and 20... Read More


Riding on hope, delivering goods

India, Feb. 21 -- The first BJP government in Delhi in nearly three decades addresses the gender, regional, and caste dynamics of the party's rainbow support base. The choice of Rekha Gupta, a first-t... Read More


When Russia and the US reset their relations

India, Feb. 20 -- Indications are that US-Russia relations are poised for a reset. Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin issued statements to this effect, which marks a detente in the bilateral t... Read More


Ensuring a clean Maha Kumbh

India, Feb. 20 -- For millennia, the Ganga has been a metaphor for purity for the faithful in India. Almost as a corollary, conversations around its pollution and conservation are marked by either con... Read More


Doha link in India's pivot to West Asia

India, Feb. 19 -- India and Qatar's announcement about forging a strategic partnership to enhance cooperation in trade, energy, and security marked the resetting of relations after a bumpy stretch due... Read More


500 days of war later, Gaza's fate uncertain

India, Feb. 18 -- Gaza, now a ghost town, stares at greater uncertainty than it faced at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war just over 500 days ago. In the interim, an immense human cost has been pa... Read More


TN-Centre NEP standoff needless in any language

India, Feb. 17 -- The schism emerging between the Tamil Nadu government and the Union government over the National Education Policy (NEP) and the three-language formula is a classic case of leaders ta... Read More


Aid politics and national interest

India, Feb. 17 -- A row has broken out over the US Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) tweet that it has cancelled funding of "$21 million for (improving) voter turnout in India". Senior gove... Read More


Europe-army call a sign of a continent in flux

India, Feb. 17 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's call for raising an "armed forces of Europe" is an acknowledgment that the continent may no longer be the beneficiary of security guarantees ... Read More


Falling off the tracks again

India, Feb. 17 -- The stampede that resulted in the death of at least 18 people at the New Delhi railway station on Saturday night was a tragedy waiting to happen, sparked by a combination of events b... Read More