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Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But Do We Bother?

Aakar Patel | Why India’s Rank Has Been Falling In Global Indices… But...

On the UNDP’s Human Development Index, India’s rank in 2014 was 130 and its rank today is unchanged. The UN report says...

17 Nov 2025 11:55 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in...

India is in the third quintile, along with select countries in South Asia, East Africa and West Africa

17 Nov 2025 10:34 PM IST

Manish Tewari | To Junta From Democracy? How Army Charted Pakistans Fall

Manish Tewari | To Junta From Democracy? How Army Charted Pakistan's...

To grasp the entirety of the chicanery that has come to define Pakistan today, one must reflect on the long history of...

16 Nov 2025 8:45 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | With Pot Calling the Kettle Black… Trump & BBC in War of Credibility

Farrukh Dhondy | With Pot Calling the Kettle Black… Trump & BBC in War...

President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, one Karoline Leavitt, has gone on social media to label the BBC “100 per cent fake...

16 Nov 2025 8:36 PM IST

Kamal Davar | Pak Army’s Sweeping Powers In New Law Puts Top Court, Govt At Field Marshal’s Mercy

Kamal Davar | Pak Army’s Sweeping Powers In New Law Puts Top Court,...

It is worthwhile to study the sweeping changes introduced by the 27th Amendment in relation to Article 243 of the...

15 Nov 2025 11:49 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan | Bihar Ballot Shock: Power Recast, Perceptions Jolted

Bharat Bhushan | Bihar Ballot Shock: Power Recast, Perceptions Jolted

Although Rahul Gandhi travelled 1,300 km in his “Vote Adhikar Yatra”, covering 25 districts and 110 constituencies, the...

15 Nov 2025 11:16 PM IST

Arunima Mazumdar | What I Carried With Me On My Solo Berlin Trip

Arunima Mazumdar | What I Carried With Me On My Solo Berlin Trip

If there’s one thing that travel has taught me, it is that experiencing a new city or country will always rest on where...

15 Nov 2025 11:01 PM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr l Did Lalu’s Image Hit RJD Chances? Next time, Chirag The Man to Watch

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr l Did Lalu’s Image Hit RJD Chances? Next...

Psephologist and political analyst Yogendra Yadav rightly pointed out that the NDA had access to larger segments of the...

14 Nov 2025 11:39 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee l NDA Triumph in Bihar is Voters’ Gift to Nitish

Shikha Mukerjee l NDA Triumph in Bihar is Voters’ Gift to Nitish

The verdict is a sharp rap on the BJP’s knuckles, after the party had waffled about who would be the CM if the NDA won

14 Nov 2025 11:38 PM IST

K.C. Singh | Rethink Strategy On J&K, Counter-terrorism & Pak

K.C. Singh | Rethink Strategy On J&K, Counter-terrorism & Pak

Between the Pahalgam terror attack in May and now, the geopolitical context has mutated radically. A new positive phase...

13 Nov 2025 10:48 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | When Jaipur’s Top Babu Takes The Delhi Exit Ramp

Dilip Cherian | When Jaipur’s Top Babu Takes The Delhi Exit Ramp

The Centre’s decision to pull Mr Pant back into the Union government is being seen as both a reward for reliability and...

13 Nov 2025 9:33 PM IST

Ruchira Gupta | Can Mamdani’s Win in NY Reshape 2026 US Politics?

Ruchira Gupta | Can Mamdani’s Win in NY Reshape 2026 US Politics?

A people-powered campaign shows how listening and real change can rebuild democracy.

12 Nov 2025 9:25 PM IST