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These tragedies underscore the urgent need for a more robust, comprehensive and responsive mechanism to address the various factors that compel students to commit suicide

Attempts to equate India with Pakistan and ask them to resolve outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations expose the deliberate refusal of the West to distinguish between the perpetrator and the victim

Many potential buyers of electric vehicles in India are keeping their plans on hold because of the government’s flip-flops on EV and trade policy

The ideology of naxalism should be eradicated through dialogue and not by the use of force alone

Caste survey is much needed, especially when jobs and economic opportunities for the disadvantaged sections have been shrinking and the social disparities widening

Pakistan ministers Khawaja Asif and Hanif Abbasi, by flaunting the country’s nuclear status, are resorting to war-mongering

The Trump Administration’s reckless comments undermining Canada’s sovereignty played a major role in the decisive mandate for Carney whose aggressive stance against the United States found resonance with voters

The new FDI window could transform India’s nuclear landscape from an insular, slow-moving domain into a vibrant arena of investment and innovation

Kasturirangan had a pivotal role to play in the transformation of ISRO into a formidable space exploration agency competing with the best in the world

Twenty years later, YouTube, with over 20 billion videos and more than a billion monthly active users, is an integral part of our lives

US Vice President JD Vance’s visit to India helped in removing uncertainties surrounding the new tariff regime and cleared the way for finalising a trade agreement between the two countries

The Pahalgam attack comes as a grim reminder of the continued threat from Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism

Pope Francis embodied humility, compassion and a quiet but persistent defiance of the Vatican’s ossified traditions

The crisis at Indian jails goes deeper than just space -- it is a human rights emergency where the cramped conditions militate against prisoners’ right to good health and dignity

The pandemic treaty would obligate wealthy nations to share key information on pathogens and technology for interventions such as vaccines with the rest of the world

The Supreme Court’s observation that language has no religion and that all languages should be celebrated equally is a welcome affirmation of India’s linguistic pluralism

The Supreme Court, by flagging key issues, strikes a delicate balance between addressing the concerns of Muslim community and the need to carry out genuinely beneficial reforms

While the Kashmiris have reconciled to the reality of the irreversibility of the abrogation of Article 370, they very much expect the restoration of statehood, which is their rightful due

Trump administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University, as a punishment for refusing to toe the line and comply with a list of ‘unlawful’ demands from the federal government, reflects an authoritarian mindset

The ongoing mob violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district is not just a law-and-order failure, it is also a political and administrative failure