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A Bigger Cheque for India-Pakistan Arms Race

India, Feb. 9 -- With defence budgets for both India and Pakistan now public, it is clear that the arms race in the subcontinent is intensifying at a pace not previously anticipated by international s... Read More


Businesses are destroying the very natural systems they depend on to survive: IPBES Report

India, Feb. 9 -- Businesses around the world are destroying the very natural systems they rely on to survive, a major global report released on February 9, 2026, has revealed. The "Methodological Ass... Read More


Logical Discrepancy: A Lethal Weapon Repurposed by the ECI

India, Feb. 9 -- In an unprecedented and extremely consequential move for conducting free and fair elections in the country, the West Bengal Chief Minister and President of the All India Trinamool Con... Read More


At a Demographic Crossroads

India, Feb. 9 -- The news that India has surpassed China as the world's most populous nation does sound ominous. However, contrary to the widely held belief that India is experiencing an uncontrollab... Read More


Budget Blues Big Numbers, Bigger Gaps

India, Feb. 9 -- When the Union Budget 2026-27 was presented in Parliament, most television screens carried the same image - the finance minister standing at the podium, calmly listing numbers that ra... Read More


Right to Menstrual Health Part of Right to Education: Supreme Court

India, Feb. 9 -- A Supreme Court Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan held that menstrual health is a girl's fundamental right, enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, which ... Read More


China's panda diplomacy is becoming a liability for Beijing

India, Feb. 9 -- Japan said goodbye to its last two giant pandas on January 27, as twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were returned from their host country to China. Their departure has left Japan without an... Read More


Miya as Method Abuse as a Tool of Governance

India, Feb. 9 -- It was the Hindustan Times' chief photographer, the late Arun Jetlie, who taught me how to drive in the mid-eighties. He would come home, take me in the car, and drive to the Raj Bhav... Read More


Hate Speech Goes Through the Roof

India, Feb. 9 -- Hate speech against minorities has been one of the most significant strategies used by the BJP to polarise the majority community and secure electoral victories over the past eleven y... Read More


Canva brings brand kits into ChatGPT AI workflows

India, Feb. 9 -- Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work is done, allowing professionals to complete tasks in minutes that previously took hours. However, a recurring limitation of AI assistants... Read More