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Janata Dal (United) supporters, wearing masks of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, hold EVM replicas in Patna on October 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI On October 6, 2025, the day the Election Commission of India declared dates for the Assembly elections in Bihar, various players, including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief J.P. Nadda and … Read more

Beyond the accord The Gaza peace accord marks a hopeful step, but peace without reconstruction is incomplete. The world’s attention must now shift from ceasefire diplomacy to rebuilding lives and livelihoods. Hospitals, schools and civic infrastructure lie in ruins, while thousands of small traders and resellers — once the city’s economic lifeline — have lost … Read more

In June, Meta announced a $15-billion acquisition of Scale AI, bringing its founder Alexandr Wang on board to lead a new “superintelligence” team. Headlines focused on Meta’s ambition, on the size of the deal, on the race for dominance. The real lesson lies elsewhere, though: independence. Scale AI did not win because it had the … Read more

In every parliamentary system, stories abound of Ministers who resigned under a cloud, some out of moral conviction and others under political compulsion. In either case, resignation is a political act, not a constitutional command. The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill, 2025, introduced in the Lok Sabha in August, seeks to mandate that the Prime Minister, … Read more

Marked by controversy, Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s ongoing visit to India was meant to signal a major reset in ties between New Delhi and the Taliban. The visit was his first since the Taliban grabbed power in 2021, as was his meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Adviser … Read more

Several authors, including us, have argued that a growth rate of 6.5% appears to be the potential growth rate of India as of now. But the first quarter growth rate of 2025-26 is estimated at 7.8%. Does this alter our perception about the potential growth rate? The first quarter real GDP growth in the post-COVID-19 … Read more

The successful trial of India’s first hydrogen-powered coach at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in July 2025 is more than a technological breakthrough. It is a testament to Indian Railways’ accelerating green transition. As one of the largest rail networks in the world, the Indian Railways is undertaking a transformation with few global parallels, with … Read more

Fresh impetus for the Sawalkote Hydroelectric Project, planned as a 1.8-GW scheme on the Chenab, coincides with India’s unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) after the Pahalgam attack, giving it a geopolitical symbolism that risks overshadowing questions relating to the environmental impact. The Union Ministries of Power and Home Affairs have repeatedly stressed … Read more

Not so long ago, the idea of India as the place for resolution of international commercial disputes would have sounded like the start of a bad lawyer joke. Equally unimaginable was that the Supreme Court of India, known for decades for its exceptional judicial activism and for protecting the constitutional rights of India’s citizenry, would … Read more