Modi’s problems began over the summer. After the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)—the exam Indian students take to qualify for medical school—leaked, India’s education department asked more than 2 million students
A growing illicit pharmaceutical pipeline from India to West Africa has been uncovered through trade data analysis, revealing the export of more than 320 million synthetic opioid tablets over the past three
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From decades of Maoist guerrilla warfare and isolation to rebuilding, returning villagers, and expanding state presence, central India’s Bastar region is being reshaped in what officials call the collapse of one of
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Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has overtaken Mukesh Ambani to become Asia’s richest person, as rising geopolitical tensions linked to the Iran conflict weigh heavily on energy markets and reshape the fortunes of
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Punjab is witnessing a troubling pattern of attacks, particularly on police establishments, indicating a calibrated attempt by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to revive coordinated violence through hybrid means – an amalgamation of
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Cement manufacturers have raised prices by ₹15–20 per 50 kg bag this month, resulting in an all-India average increase of about 5% in April compared with March, according to a Motilal Oswal
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On April 14, 2026, the Government of Mizoram (GoM) signed a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) with the Hmar People’s Convention-Democracy-Lalhmingthanga Sanate faction (HPC-D-LF) at Sakawrdai in the Aizawl District of Mizoram, formally
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India’s rise on the global stage is no longer debated. Over the past decade, New Delhi has steadily positioned itself as a consequential actor combining economic ambition with expanding strategic reach. Its
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India’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the world” is facing a growing crisis, not from counterfeit medicines as commonly feared, but from a far more insidious threat: substandard drugs. As highlighted in
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In a small village in Haryana, a mother’s grief has become a stark symbol of a much larger national crisis. “My son wanted to become a wrestler. How does a liver collapse
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It is necessary to revive the vital issue of national security, suppressed—presumably at the behest of the government—by former COAS Gen. M. M. Naravane’s declaration on February 10 that his controversial book
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Across the globe, the tools of conflict are evolving. In South Asia, the erosion of the Indus Waters Treaty is transforming rivers into instruments of strategic leverage between India and Pakistan. Half
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On March 30, 2026, Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Harish Kumar Gupta declared that the state was free of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), a day before the Centre’s
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Tripura sustained its status as a “zero-insurgency” State through 2025 and into 2026, with no reported insurgency-related fatalities and no active militant violence. The gains achieved through the September 4, 2024, Memorandum
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In a move that is already reverberating across the strategic landscape of the Indian Ocean, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has formally acquired a controlling 51
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