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The story so far: A month after this year’s explosive Munich Security Conference, where U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance put Europe on notice, Delhi is set to host the annual Raisina Dialogue from March 17-19, where U.S. President Donald Trump’s seismic foreign policy shifts are expected to be the big conversation points again. What are … Read more
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (March 15, 2025) said the “appeasement politics” of Congress, the latest example of which was the “unconstitutional” decision of the Karnataka government to provide 4% reservation to Muslims in government contracts, would weaken national unity. Also Read | … Read more
French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller Capital in the 21st Century, during a symposium in 2015. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (March 16, 2025) sought a response from the Congress on the objective behind the Telangana government’s decision to involve a foreign expert for analysing the … Read more
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, the former Union Finance Secretary, took charge as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on March 1, Saturday. The next day, the news broke that a Mumbai Special Court Judge directed the city’s Anti-Corruption Bureau to file FIRs on former SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and three of … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Photo Credit: Reuters Social media and communications giant Meta hired an “ex-police captain” in India to undergo arrest in case executives were targeted in government raids. The claim has been made by Sarah Wynn-Williams in a newly released memoir, Careless People, the publication of which the Facebook and WhatsApp parent … Read more
Justice Joymalya Bagchi, a judge of the Calcutta High Court, will on Monday (March 17, 2025) be sworn in as a Supreme Court judge. | Photo Credit: PTI Justice Joymalya Bagchi, a judge of the Calcutta High Court, will on Monday (March 17, 2025) be sworn in as a Supreme Court judge. Chief Justice of … Read more
Scorpene Submarine. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Two mega defence deals with France — for 26 Rafale-M fighter jets and three more Scorpene-class conventional submarines — worth close to $11 billion are now awaiting final approval by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) before their anticipated conclusion very soon. The Indian Navy will get to … Read more
Participants in the 2025 filmmakers challenge. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Close to 60% finalists in the WAVES-2025 Young Filmmakers Challenge, organised by Whistling Woods International in partnership with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, are female candidates. Speaking to The Hindu, Chaitanya Chinchlikar of Whistling Woods International said over 1,000 entries were received from … Read more
Indian Army personnel keep up vigil along the Indo-Myanmar international border. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR The 1643-km-long border with Myanmar will be entirely ringed with an “anti-cut, anti-climb” fence in the next ten years, according to government officials and a parliamentary panel report. The project to fence the Myanmar border was announced by … Read more
Top anthropologists have called for a paradigm shift in the way India defines a “tribe”, overwhelmingly supporting the idea that a community’s classification should be assessed on a “spectrum of tribalness” rather than the binary question of whether or not it is a tribe. This was the broad consensus reached at a recent Indian Anthropology … Read more