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Grand Strategy | Delhi’s Kabul strategy and the role of Taliban

Published on Jun 30, 2024 17:50 IST

India’s carefully calibrated engagement with the Taliban is a fine example of New Delhi’s ability to balance soft power with hard strategy, (West Asia News Agency/Reuters)

Dying for love: The shame of modern India

Meena and Tejbir at their wedding on April 22

Published on Jun 30, 2024 02:50 IST

Keeping up with UP: Water and its disappearing act

A waste picker drinks water while working during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Waste pickers endure a miserable job that is growing more dangerous as climate change leads to rising heat. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Published on Jun 30, 2024 02:30 IST

Just Like That | Colonial clubs and the fetish about dress codes

A view of the prestigious Delhi Golf Club, which was establised in 1930. (Credit: Delhi Golf Club website)

Published on Jun 30, 2024 02:30 IST

Claim to prohibition is immoral, ahistoric

The truth is deaths caused by the consumption of spurious liquor are double tragedies. (Representational photo)

Published on Jun 29, 2024 18:30 IST

For small islands, climate finance is about survival

A passenger drinking water is silhouetted against the sun on a hot summer day at Jalandhar Cantonment railway station in Jalandhar on June 11, 2024 amid heatwave. (Photo by Shammi MEHRA / AFP)

Updated on Jun 29, 2024 18:30 IST

Soft power option to win and keep friends

India’s soft power is rooted in the core Indian values of secularism, tolerance, inclusiveness, and assimilation of multiple cultures in its civilisation. Today, this is enhanced by India’s democracy, food, movies, music, inclusive non-missionary religion

Published on Jun 29, 2024 18:16 IST

The Art and Science of Fitness | Reclaiming your fitness goals after pregnancy

Postpartum exercise can serve two functions: It is good for getting back to fitness. But it also means that you, as a new mother, need to set aside time to prioritise yourself.

Published on Jun 29, 2024 02:30 IST

Curating a product market fit for your crypto startup

Being a crypto entrepreneur in India could have Herculean challenges, because, from a regulatory perspective, it's a rocky relationship with crypto without much legitimacy.

Published on Jun 29, 2024 02:30 IST

Weaponising law and a lie to attack Indo-Islamic heritage

Muslims offer prayers at a mosque in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (AP)

Published on Jun 28, 2024 15:32 IST

Goodbye to greed-centric conservation paradigms

Wild Asiatic water buffalos graze in the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Thursday, June 20, 2024. The sanctuary is known for its Indian one-horned rhino population. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (AP)

Published on Jun 28, 2024 15:31 IST

Recalibrating relations with China, Pakistan

This picture taken on May 19, 2024, shows Rezang la War Memorial in Eastern Ladakh. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Jun 28, 2024 15:31 IST

Reading continuity in a fractured verdict

New Delhi, Jun 12 (ANI): NEET aspirants protest against the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG examination at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Photo/Ritik Jain) (Ritik Jain)

Published on Jun 27, 2024 15:18 IST

Why sentencing norms need to be streamlined

Sentencing decisions in India are influenced by the socio-economic status and gender of the accused, background of the judges, and quality of legal representation. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published on Jun 27, 2024 15:03 IST

Building on the gains in the foreign policy realm

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at a meeting, in New Delhi, Monday, June 17, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

Published on Jun 27, 2024 14:57 IST

What Julian Assange did to western world order

TOPSHOT - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives thumbs up after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man June 26 after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Jun 26, 2024 15:46 IST

Reaching for the sky on a wing and a prayer

Kolkata, India - May 26, 2024: A view of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (Photo by Samir Jana/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Published on Jun 26, 2024 15:43 IST

India must act now to beat extreme heat

A woman with her face covered walks near the India Gate on a hot summer day during heatwave in New Delhi on June 17, 2024. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Jun 26, 2024 15:41 IST

The indispensability of revival of political process in J&K

Women stand in a queue at a polling station to cast their ballot during the first phase of voting of India's general elections in Jammu, some 230 Kms from Srinagar on April 19, 2024. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

Published on Jun 26, 2024 13:22 IST

Why New Delhi needs a national security strategy

National security is just not about defence but is a whole-of-government approach that needs orchestration by the political executive head, not by the defence minister. (Photo by Rakesh BAKSHI / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Jun 25, 2024 15:38 IST

The BJP’s poll showing and Dalit anxiety on reservation

Noida, India- April 14, 2024: People seen on the occasion of the 133th birth anniversary of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar at Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal, sector 95, in Noida, India, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

Published on Jun 25, 2024 15:29 IST

Pulpit offers Biden his comeback opportunity

FILE - President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Published on Jun 25, 2024 15:25 IST

Case against NEET goes beyond failings of NTA

Kolkata, India - June 24, 2024: All India Democratic Students' Organisation (AIDSO), affiliated with Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C) supporters staged a protest rally against recent scam in NEET and UGC-NET exam at Moulali in Kolkata, India, on Monday, June 24, 2024. (Photo by Samir Jana/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 24, 2024 14:52 IST

Can India keep its net zero by 2070 promise?

FILE PHOTO: Labourers work next to electricity pylons in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Jun 24, 2024 14:46 IST

The importance of being the Speaker

The Parliament House in New Delhi, India, on Monday, June 24, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vast domestic agenda is in jeopardy after his party failed to win an outright majority in parliament for the first time in a decade, forcing it to work with a coalition of parties and grapple with an expanded opposition bench. Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Published on Jun 24, 2024 14:40 IST

Remembering Akira Endo, the scientist who revolutionised heart care

This undated photo released by Jiji Press on June 11, 2024 shows professor Akira Endo from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo. Endo, the Japanese biochemist whose pioneering research on fungi led to the development of cholesterol-lowering statins, has died at the age of 90, Japanese media reported on June 11, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT

Published on Jun 24, 2024 02:30 IST

The Swiss “Peace Summit” and the competing impulses of war and peace

This photograph shows the Swiss flag sets among the flags of the other countries during a plenary session at the Summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 16, 2024. The two-day gathering brings together Ukrainian President and more than 50 other heads of state and government, to try to work out a way towards a peace process for Ukraine -- albeit without Russia. (Photo by URS FLUEELER / POOL / AFP)

Published on Jun 24, 2024 01:30 IST

Sowing the seeds of a farm-growth revival

Amritsar: Farm labourers plant seedlings in a field during sunset on the outskirts of Amritsar, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI06_23_2024_000239B)

Published on Jun 23, 2024 17:53 IST

A code for members of the new Lok Sabha

The Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) who have been returned may harbour unpleasant memories: Mass suspensions, privilege cases, expulsions, and the denial of opportunities were common threads in the last House(File Photo)

Published on Jun 23, 2024 17:34 IST

Ganga needs joint efforts to regain its old strength

Kolkata: The setting Sun on an evening, seen from the bank of the River Ganga, in Kolkata, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)(PTI06_23_2024_000213B)

Published on Jun 23, 2024 16:54 IST

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