Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s ninth consecutive Union Budget is less a populist overture than a technocratic manifesto. With a fiscal deficit target of 4.3 percent of GDP and a record …
Opinion
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Opinion: Uncertainty and Doubts of Direction
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readNo one was expecting quick fixes at the start of 2026. If anything, there was a conviction that the New Year was going to see the persistence of old conflicts …
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India’s Expanding Defense Ties with Europe and Bangladesh’s Strategic Balancing in South Asia
by Shahidul Alam Swapan 7 minutes readIndia’s deepening defense trade with major European Union member states such as France, Germany, Spain, and Italy has become one of the defining strategic trends in South Asia over the …
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The Credibility Gap: Structural Dissonance in India’s Economic Survey 2025-26
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 7 minutes readWhen Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2025-26 in Parliament on January 29, the document was ostensibly a review of the past year and a roadmap for the …
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The toxic air in South Asia harms tens of millions of children daily, killing an estimated 130,000 children under-fives each year, the highest child death toll from air pollution in the world, …
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Sanctions at Sea: Marinera Seizure Erodes Maritime Freedom
by Utkarsh Yadav and Aviral Pratap Singh 4 minutes readOn January 7, 2026, U.S. forces seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella-1), which was carrying Venezuela-linked oil cargoes. This happened after the vessel refused a U.S. Coast Guard boarding attempt in the …
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Women Don’t Lack Ambition, They Lack a Level Playing Field
by Farzana Baduel 9 minutes readBefore school drop-offs. After the children are asleep. Between paid work, care work, and the invisible labor of holding families and communities together. During motherhood, that is exactly what entrepreneurship …
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Opinion: Getting Real with the Board of Peace
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readIt is not as though the Board of Peace (BOP) is in tatters or on the verge of collapse except that many nations who have been invited to join the …
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Inderjit Singh Bindra: The Visionary Administrator Who Transformed Indian Cricket and Punjab’s Sports Landscape
by Prabhjot Singh 6 minutes readHe was not only a doyen of Indian cricket and an administrator par excellence who commanded respect across multiple institutional domains, but also a gentleman, a keen golfer, a wonderful …
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BRICS 2026 – Implications for a Multipolar World
by Ambassador Anil Trigunayat 7 minutes readRecently the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean Noel Barrot, while meeting the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar, made an interesting observation that France was heading …