Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget on Sunday, ( unusual ) 1st February 2026. This was her 9th budget presentation and by so doing she has joined the unique list of ...

The year continues with the execution of eight army chiefs, haloed with the memory of Civil War triumphs: Tukhachevsky, Yakir ...

Pakistan has warned the United Nations (UN) that India’s decision to put the Indus Waters Treaty on hold has sparked an “unprecedented crisis” for its water security and could threaten regional ...

The COP30 conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which met in Belém, Brazil last December concluded on a disappointing note. The conference had several key ...

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Bhagwant Mann’s political rise has been closely tied to a populist style marked by plain speech, satire, and a deliberate rejection of elite political decorum. This approach resonated strongly with an ...

In the months I spent collecting data on working conditions of security guards in India, I repeatedly returned to a particular arithmetic that governed lives with ruthless precision. It was not the ...

Although the responsibility for maintaining peace in the post–Second World War era has largely rested with multilateral institutions, growing concerns have emerged in recent decades regarding their ...

Since even the highest bourgeois oracle, the IMF, has cast doubts on the veracity of India’s GDP estimates, the precise budget figures based on the assumptions of a certain level, and growth rate, in ...