India’s growth held up well in the middle of heightened global uncertainties last year, and now – with govt changing the base year for calculating GDP growth from 2011-12 to 2022-23 on Friday – the numbers are looking even better. GDP grew by 7.8% in Q3 FY26, following high growth of 8.4% in Q2. Moreover,…
What do many women want? Manly men. Yes, even now. More women than would admit it. Maybe the square jaw. Maybe the baritone voice. Or broad shoulders. The man who opens jars and doors. These women want men who radiate unapologetic, chest-forward masculinity – preferably with forearms that look like they wrestle bears recreationally. Read…
Good investigations are built on proof — not guesses. Recently, a special judge named Jitender Singh strongly criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its case about Delhi’s excise policy. The judge said the case seemed to be built on “conjecture” — which means guesses — instead of solid evidence. He even suggested that…
Everyone feels angry sometimes. It’s a normal human emotion. In sports, especially, feelings can get very intense. That’s why a women’s tennis tournament in Texas recently set up a “rage room” where players can go and smash things to let out their frustration. In some big Indian cities, there are also places where people pay…
The world is not facing a temporary water shortage. It is entering water bankruptcy. Nearly half of humanity now experiences severe water scarcity for at least part of each year. Reservoirs shrink. Crops fail. Aquifers collapse. Cities sink. Wildfires and dust storms intensify in places once considered stable. These are not isolated crises. They are…
Today’s edition tracks a sharp 45% drop in Indian students heading to US universities amid visa uncertainty and rising costs, a political flashpoint involving Zohran Mamdani in an ICE detention case, and an online storm over a Harvard Sanskrit course artwork accused of being “Hinduphobic”. THE BIG STORY 45% drop in Indians at US universities…
Teenagers are naturally attracted to foreign cultures, and thus languages. Encourage this Policy is all very well, but what about pleasure? It gets little mention in politically charged shouting matches about the Centre’s three-language policy, or its heated two-language rebuttals. In all the earnest talk of national identity, competitiveness and cultural preservation, joy barely gets…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel marks another chapter in a relationship that has quietly transformed over the past three decades. What was once a cautious and largely low-profile engagement has evolved into one of India’s most significant strategic partnerships in West Asia. The visit is not merely a diplomatic ceremony. It reflects…
India’s GDP is growing as are aspirations of the people. Both require water. And herein lies the challenge of the balance: How to meet increasing demand when water is running out, quantitively and qualitatively? India is one of the top countries at risk because of water scarcity, floods, water pollution and climate change. The multiple…
“Until you become an unbeliever in yourself, you cannot become a believer in God,” said Hazrat Abu Sa’id Abul-Khayr (967–1049), a renowned Persian Sufi mystic. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, our existence often gets limited to our needs, our desires. Our singular focus on the needs of the self becomes the veil…