New Delhi, July 31 -- The resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after weeks of relentless student protests will be remembered as one of the defining political moments in contemp... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- The central challenge facing Indian higher education today is this: Can a country as diverse as India create excellence by combining national standards with institutional freedom... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- Every year, finance ministers present national budgets. Companies publish balance sheets. Families carefully plan their annual income and expenditure. We instinctively understand... Read More
New Delhi, July 30 -- Tempers between India and Pakistan had barely cooled following the brief but dangerous military confrontation between the two nuclear powers in May 2025, when an Indian and a Pak... Read More
New Delhi, July 29 -- The narrative that BIMSTEC has revived regionalism from the death of SAARC is alluring but incomplete. BIMSTEC's success lies not in its philosophical dedication to inclusivity, ... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- What US Ambassador Alaina Teplitz warned in 2021 is now playing out in Sri Lanka. Last week, a violent clash between two Chinese gangs in the Chinese-backed Colombo Port City lef... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- Every day, approximately 1,500 young Nepalis leave the country to work abroad. Nepal's unemployment rate stands at 10.47 percent, while youth unemployment (ages 15-24) is 20.56 p... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- Across large parts of India, governance reveals a pattern that is neither concealed nor formally acknowledged, yet persists with enough regularity to have acquired a name of its ... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- A nationwide student movement rarely begins with something as mundane as an examination irregularity. Yet across South Asia, youth protests have increasingly become the first vis... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- What began as an ill-considered courtroom comment by the Chief Justice of India has blown up into a full-scale nationwide protest movement by the student community against the ro... Read More