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Trump's transactionalism the compass now for Ukraine war

India, Feb. 23 -- Three years after the Russia-Ukraine war and the immense human and capital losses on both sides, there are flickering signs of an end -- though its shape is yet unclear. The war was ... Read More


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