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Opinion | Straight Talk: Just How Big Is The Effect Of Trump Tariffs On India?
Despite headline growth figures signalling resilience, India's informal sector, which employs hundreds of millions, remains exposed to external shocks and structural weaknesses.
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Opinion | Identity Crisis: On Aadhaar, Citizenship, And The Right To Vote
While the Supreme Court's recent directive may seem innocuous, it has profound implications. It showcases a potential vulnerability in dealing with 'illegal immigrants' and the 'citizenship' debate.
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Opinion | Gen Z's Rage In Asia Is Stoked By Staggering Jobs Crisis
Youth-led protests across Asia in recent months have centered on corruption, elitism and censorship. But behind Gen-Z's anger lies something even more troubling: A staggering jobs crisis.
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Opinion | The Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact Is Not About Them, But Someone Else
This defence pact - if it does indeed exist or is to be rolled out in its entirety - is aimed at different actors in Asia: West Asia, India, China and even Russia , even while the US rakes in the money.
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Opinion | India-EU FTA: Light At The End Of A Long Tunnel?
The current bilateral and global centripetal forces seem to be pulling India and the EU together. However, the two sides have been here many times during the past two decades.
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Opinion | Why Bishnoi Gang - Now A 'Terror Entity' - Continues To Haunt India-Canada Ties
Canada continues to prioritise foreign interference and transnational repression as central to its national security agenda, even as it overlaps and at times undermines Indias concern about Khalistani separatism.
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Opinion | A Centenary Of Nation-Building: My Experience Of RSS
Several decades of my experience of the RSS have immensely enriched and profoundly shaped my being.
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Opinion | India-Pak Asia Cup Row: War, Minus The Shooting
George Orwell called sport "War Minus The Shooting" in an essay on sporting spirit, where he said that competitive sports trigger intense nationalistic rivalries and aggression. I am just wondering if that could be called "War PLUS the shooting" now.
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Opinion | The Difference Between Trump And Jaishankar At United Nations
In its conduct, the UN seems caught in the quintessential cleft stick - a dependence on world's major powers and economies for its funding but a promise to the world to be democratic and unbiased.
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Opinion | How The Congress's Manmohan Singh Library Came To Be
In death, the good Dr Manmohan Singh has restored the grand old party's link with history and books and achieved what ended abruptly way back in 1971.
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Opinion | Why India Must Think Twice Before Buying The Russian Su-57
India faces genuine gaps in fighter strength. But the answer cannot be to mortgage the future of its airpower for a platform already proven inadequate.
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Opinion | Message To India, Or Something Else? Why Trump Is Really Coddling Pakistan
Trump has reshuffled the political, security and economic cards in the subcontinent as a challenge to India's interests.
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Opinion | Should TVK Chief Vijay Be Made Accused In Karur Stampede Case?
An enormous human tragedy at Velusamypuram in Karur left 41 people dead.
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Opinion | Can India Rescue Its Exiled Coders - Like China And Taiwan?
For years, the middle-class mantra in India was: study hard, crack the exams, get the H-1B visa, build a life in America. That promise now lies in ruins. But...China and Taiwan have been here before.
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Opinion| Musk And Gates Were Both Wrong On The Future Of Trucks
To hear Bill Gates tell it, the electric drivetrains that have transformed the passenger vehicle industry over the past decade have no chance of repeating the trick in heavy trucks.
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Opinion | Cut The Politics, We Need Answers On Tamil Nadu Tragedy
Velusamypuram will remain a painful memory for Tamil Nadu. The scale of the tragedy that unfolded with the loss of 40 lives, including 10 children and several women, in a political gathering is gruesome, if not unprecedented.
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Opinion | Inside Trump's Quiet Takeover Of Silicon Valley
Since President Trump was sworn in earlier this year, his administration has steadily eroded the corporate autonomy of US Big Tech players.
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Blog: Zubeen Garg, For Those Of Us Who Knew Him Before The World Did
Everyone from Assam carries a Zubeen story - some as fans, others as friends. Mine is a quiet story, woven through shared spaces, songs, and one unforgettable gesture.
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What A 'Win-Win' TikTok Deal Means To China
When President Donald Trump first brought up banning TikTok due to perceived national security concerns more than five years ago, the app from Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. was the envy of the global tech industry.
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Blog | The Story Of Abhijot, A Child Who Fought For His Life In A Flooded Punjab Village
Punjab experienced the worst floods this year since 1988. As many as 14 areas had villages that were completely inundated. Among those areas was Amritsars Ajnala, where in a village called Talwindi Rai Dadu, Abhijot resided with his family.
