Correspondent

The proposed India-US trade agreement has now become a test of whether India can convert a turbulent global trading order into a lasting strategic and economic advantage. For decades, trade negotiations largely revolved around a familiar arithmetic of reducing tariffs and expanding market access. That comfortable world has vanished. The United States led by Donald Trump increasingly treats trade as an instrument of geopolitical leverage. As a result, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has...

People with their bodies painted in colours pose for photographs during a 'Muharram' procession in Hubballi, Dharwad district, on Thursday. People carry their bicycles as they wade through a flooded area after a substantial rise in the Brahmaputra river water level in Morigaon on Thursday, June 25, 2026. The Assam government is closely monitoring the flash flood situation in parts of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. A visitor looks at an installation, Bachpan ki Dukan, at a week-long...

Pune has long cultivated an image of itself as Maharashtra’s cultural and educational capital. Yet, the alleged murder of a young businessman by his fiancée and her lover at Lohagad Fort reveals a darker reality that beneath the city’s polished image lies a growing culture of selfishness, emotional emptiness and moral decay. According to police investigations, what initially appeared to be a tragic trekking accident has been revealed as a carefully planned killing. The victim was allegedly...