India

The Irrelevance of Europe: Tragedy of an Avoidable Decline

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

Navigating trade headwinds: India’s strategic imperative

As the US turns tariffs into a blunt instrument of foreign policy, India needs to chart its own path through diversification, diplomacy and domestic reform

Harnessing technology for early warnings on earthquakes

Earthquakes cannot be prevented. But AI-based early warning systems can save lives and infrastructure.

The dark side of India’s research publications boom

The ‘publish or perish’ culture has bred unhealthy practices that threaten the very integrity of Indian academia.

BNP’s indecisive politics could hurt democracy revival in Bangladesh

The country’s geopolitical vulnerabilities could deepen as political fissures widen.

Why India’s Infrastructure Is Collapsing?

The Silent Epidemic of Failures in India’s Road Sector

Bengali-speaking Indian migrants face hurdles to avoid deportation to Bangladesh

The harassment, detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking migrant workers is merely the first step in identifying and creating a new stateless population in South Asia

His Voice Will Never Die: Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchan Hai

Bhupinder’s soulful, unique voice carried a Sufi spirit and poetic depth, too intense and melancholic for mainstream Hindi film playback singing conventions

Why is China so desperate to control the choice of successor of Dalai Lama? Will it succeed?

Chinese government in an attempt to de-legitimise the Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, has even gone to the extent of changing the region’s name to Xizang

BRICS+ meets in Rio amid global shifts and internal fractures

As leaders of the group gather for a summit, the absence of China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin shifts the spotlight to India’s Modi and Brazil’s Lula