The defining story of the global startup ecosystem between 2024 and early-2026 is neither collapse nor renaissance. It is something more structural: a repricing of risk and a recalibration of capital discipline. For over a decade, venture ecosystems were fuelled by extraordinarily cheap money. Low interest rates, abundant liquidity and global capital chasing technological disruption…
Global trade does not collapse with explosions. It slows down quietly rerouted ships, rising insurance costs, delayed cargo, and nervous markets. That is exactly what is happening in the Red Sea today. What appears to be a regional conflict is, in reality, a signal of something much larger: the rules of maritime security are changing….
The press has long been the guardian of democracy. Today, a fifth estate of millions — YouTube channels, Instagram reels and viral posts — has emerged, celebrated for democratizing information. But are they sometimes used as weapons of mass destruction? Reputations built over decades demolished with a political agenda and a click. This column examines…
With DMK facing the pressures of incumbency and TVK banking on star power, AIADMK under Edappadi K. Palaniswami positions itself as the organisational dark horse in a fragmented race. Tamil Nadu’s 2026 Assembly election is shaping up to be one of the most competitive contests the state has seen in decades. For much of the…
Do you think students have a social responsibility, a political responsibility, an economic responsibility, a cultural responsibility or an environmental responsibility? If your answer is no, you possibly missed the purpose of education. Education is not just about earning a living. It is the art of making people responsible towards themselves and the wider society….
Floccinaucinihilipilification said a Delhi magistrate, while dismissing a plea. He could have said the petition was without merit, meaning basically the same thing. Let us respond in kind. He, clearly, doesn’t suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippe-daliophobia, fear… Source link
Last year, Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs on April 2, not April 1, to ensure they weren’t taken for a joke. This year, he couldn’t care less. While he delivered his rambling 19-minute monologue on Wednesday evening – his time – the world spent all of yesterday parsing it, for clues to the likely trajectory…
Thirty-two days after US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Trump chose Passover to make his first public appeal to the nation, in the face of an unpopular war whose objectives have been opaque, and confused, at every juncture, and that has widened and escalated beyond his control. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter…
William Shakespeare’s famous line from Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet,” has often been cited by people brushing off the importance of words. Many times, society uses this line to suggest that words only mean so much and shouldn’t be taken too seriously. But…
India’s richest civic body, BMC, has a woman boss. That is swag achievement, by far. Mumbai now has three women in the financial capital’s administrative leadership – municipal commissioner, mayor and BMC’s leader of opposition – a nod to working women everywhere. And yet, can the framework for equality be gilded by only the firsts?…