Young people worldwide are losing faith in political institutions and the elites who run them. In India, they have so far restrained themselves, knowing the state can punish dissent brutally. But this restraint may not last.

The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan could expand Pakistan’s strategic role in West Asia and strengthen its military ties with Türkiye, complicating India’s regional interests.

His case has become a reference point for debates on dissent, prosecution, and custodial care in Uttar Pradesh.

Just 18 days after an intervention by the Supreme Court, the government moved to cap trade margins on 137 cancer drugs. The first such move was taken in 2019. Will the government explain the delay and fix accountability for it?

Over three weeks, Maharashtra Police have thwarted peaceful protests across the State—detaining students, activists, and even a toddler with force, violating detention norms, and blocking roads to enclosed maidans. 

Arathi Menon’s moving novel is about the toxicity of a world shaped by homophobia, social stigma, and violent notions of religious purity.

French economist Thomas Piketty and American political philosopher Michael J. Sandel reframe economic inequality as a crisis of social dignity, urging bold policy reforms to rebuild the democratic social state.

The Veteran journalist discusses Kashmir’s shrinking autonomy, democratic institutions, media control, and the growing resistance to the Modi government.

The firing on the film star Tiger Shroff is the latest in a series of incidents against Mumbai’s film industry. The jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s name keeps popping up after every attack, but people are beginning to question that narrative.

Despite years of control work, Laheri in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli continues to report high malaria rates. Factors like difficult terrains, recurrent infections, and poor health access threaten India’s 2030 malaria-elimination target.

The continued detention of Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka exposes the wide discretion available to state authorities to decide when peaceful public assembly becomes a threat to order.

Satellite data reveals the existence of thousands of tall trees in the earmarked area of the Great Nicobar Island Development Project. It is unclear how many of them will be safeguarded.

Professor Shaikh believed that economics cannot be separated from power, class, conflict, and history, and rebuilt the classical tradition through what he called Real Economic Analysis, based on real competition.

The protests that dislodged a Minister could not translate into success on campus and in byelections, and it remains to be seen whether the Cockroach movement will herald an alternative order.

Incidents in Australia, Singapore, and Bengaluru show how AI errors reach the public, and why India needs auditable systems with a way to appeal.

As Russia and Ukraine remain deadlocked in war, India is increasingly seen as a potential facilitator of peace. But can it draw on its experience chairing a Cold War-era commission in Korea to make the diplomatic difference?

Maharashtra’s drought destroys crops, cuts rural jobs, and deepens water shortages in Marathwada, leaving tenant farmers and landless workers in debt.

Elon Musk calls Mukesh Ambani a monopolist; Ambani’s Jio warns of foreign control. Meanwhile, 12,347 villages continue to be unconnected, and rural internet penetration lags far behind cities.

AI has moved from the margins of military experimentation into the operational stack of modern war. This makes it paramount for defence forces to know when to trust it, when to question it, and when to slow down.