Bhumjaithai’s election win and coalition deal signal a resurgence of establishment politics, shaped by border tensions, nationalist rhetoric and unresolved constitutional reform.

In East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is officially classified as poor.

Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.

Unlike the Cold War standoff with the erstwhile Soviet Union, today’s US-China competition is constrained by shared production networks, mutual dependence, and the high costs of economic separation.

India has detailed systems for measuring poverty. But when it comes to wealth, the data goes dark. Understanding who the rich are is essential to building fairer taxation, climate policy, and social programs.

For India, from universal suffrage to space research, progress has often begun as a gamble. In the new age of tariffs and tech rivalry, research suggests that the appetite for experimentation could be its key strategic asset.

The US president’s tariff strategy is inspired by 19th-century isolationism. But in an interconnected economy, affected countries can adapt by shifting supply chains and depreciating currencies, leaving US consumers to foot the bill

Europe’s global influence has waned, its founding vision fading amid crisis, as it risks becoming a spectator between the United States, China, and rising India

The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar has been contentious. It will be even more so in West Bengal, given the ongoing labelling of Bengali migrant workers as Bangladeshis

Robust economic objectives can be achieved not just by spouting numbers but when growth is equitable