Politics
Finding silver lining in closure of Strait of Horm...
March 16, 2026
Sitting in the middle of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea is a norrow body of water, the Strait of Hormuz, which is barely 21 nautical miles or 39 km wide at its narrowest point and serves as the maritime boundary between Iran and Oman. Yet through this narrow corridor fl...
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With energy crisis, India real loser in US-Israel ...
March 11, 2026
In barely a week since the beginning of the attack by the United States and Israel on Iran, India is in throes of a serious, if not the most critical, energy shortage in decades as not only have fuel prices risen sharply, but the country seems to be already running out of stocks ...
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Online harassment of women journalists intensifies...
March 9, 2026
Online harassment campaigns targetting women journalists in India have intensified in recent years, raising serious concerns about press freedom and the safety of media professionals. The issue has drawn attention of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based press freedom or...
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Sovereignty gaps exposed in India AI Impact Summit...
February 23, 2026
Despite attempts at grand staging by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit 2026 that was held in New Delhi, the underlying reality it exposed was far less triumphant. Even as India projected itself as a future leader of artificia...
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Employment, environment & ethics need to be t...
February 19, 2026
As leaders of over 20 nations gather today in New Delhi for the AI Impact Summit, the fourth international gathering of global leaders to create uniform regulations to govern the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence, it is imperative that they use this meeting to...
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EU-India FTA: Redefining India’s trade policy fo...
January 26, 2026
As the celebrations of the 77th Republic Day continue, the special guests on the occasion, the European Union delegation jointly led by António Costa, President, European Council and Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission, and hosts India will soon get down to the ...
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Denial of bail to Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam...
January 7, 2026
Two days after India’s Supreme Court denied bail to student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the decision continues to draw reactions from human rights lawyers, civil liberties groups and international watchdogs, intensifying debate over the prolonged pre-trial detentio...
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Omar Abdullah government under scrutiny amid risin...
January 3, 2026
On October 17, 2024, nearly five years after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, Omar Abdullah was sworn in as Chief Minister of truncated Jammu and Kashmir, having led his National Conference party to victory in historic elections, that were held after a prolonged peri...
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After half a decade without trial, Umar Khalid’s...
December 22, 2025
On December 16, when Umar Khalid walked out of jail to attend his sister’s wedding, it was not freedom that awaited him but a pause in his life behind bars. A court at Karkardooma in eastern Delhi granted him 14 days of interim bail up to December 29, strictly limited to family...
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RSF flags OpIndia for targetted online harassment ...
December 21, 2025
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for a legal investigation into what it describes as sustained cyberharassment campaigns against journalists in India, linking them to content published by the website OpIndia. In a press statement, RSF says that an investigation covering...
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