Month: April 2026

India is now Naxal-free, Home Minister Amit Shah declared in the Lok Sabha on March 30, a day ahead of a deadline he had set for himself for ending Left…

War and diplomacy The then American President, Harry S. Truman, took a calculated risk — after wide consultation with experts, including scientists — to drop the atomic bomb on Japan,…

The Lok Sabha has passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 which seeks to give legal backing to Amaravati as the State’s only capital, effectively ruling out any future…

Former Maoist insurgents attending a vocational training programme at Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh. | Photo Credit: AFP While meeting the much-anticipated March 31 deadline set by the Union government to…

The war on Iran has rapidly become one of the most consequential conflicts since the Second World War. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes across…

During the men’s final of the JSW Indian Open in Mumbai in March this year, Spencer Lovejoy, a former top-60 player in the world and an incisive commentator, was asked…

​ Global energy shocks are not new. The world has seen them before — in the early 1970s after the Yom Kippur War; in 1979 following the Iranian Revolution; in…

It is prime news ever since the Supreme Court reacted to the treatment of the judiciary in the Class eight textbook brought out by the National Council of Educational Research…

‘After this war, the West Asian security architecture will face hard questions’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto As the United States and Israel-led war against Iran enters its second month…

Cash-for-vote is an evil that continues to ail Indian democracy. Contrary to popular perception that it is a recent phenomenon, it is as old as elections themselves in India. Candidates…