It seems when states run out of money, they often turn to the bottle. Maharashtra, India’s second-most populous state, is doing just that...

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which released its preliminary report into the Air India Flight 171 crash which killed...

The BJP-led Mahayuti coalition’s announcement of officially designating Ganeshotsav as Maharashtra’s State Festival is leavened with...

In the combustible politics of Maharashtra, where identity and language have long been flashpoints, discretion and judgement are key to...

The Rafale controversy post-Operation Sindoor simply refuses to die down. Despite repeated denials from top Indian defence officials and...

The unseemly row over Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s extended stay at the Supreme Court-allotted bungalow has turned a matter of housing into...

It took nearly six decades, nine attempts and countless heartbreaks for Shubman Gill’s men to break a 58-year curse with a...

For the first time in nearly two decades, estranged cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray shared a stage in Mumbai, reviving the ghosts of...

Less than three months after 26 Indian tourists were massacred in Pahalgam by Pakistan-sponsored militants, New Delhi has inexplicably...

Days before his 90th birthday, the 14th Dalai Lama has issued a statement that carries both spiritual weight and geopolitical...

The Congress party, once the standard-bearer of India’s pluralistic democracy, now appears increasingly content playing the arsonist in a...

As a prelude to its election of a new national president, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been busy announcing new state unit...

In Maharashtra, it often takes a political bonfire for the government to realise it has been playing with matches. The ruling Mahayuti...

In Indian public life, few words have caused more heat than ‘socialist’ and ‘secular,’ the twin additions to the Preamble of the...

Multilateral summits often thrive on platitudes and polite omissions. But not so at the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation...

It took 41 years for a second Indian to pierce the boundary of space. Following Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 space sojourn, Group Captain...

In theory, the Shaktipeeth Expressway is the kind of infrastructure project any state would be proud of. Spanning 802km and connecting 12...

Few nations revere education like India does. Academic success is often seen not merely as a virtue, but as the sole passport to social...

The illusion of safety that Uber has long peddled to its millions of users lies shattered yet again, this time following a shocking...

India’s continuing hockey slide reveals a deeper rot than just scorelines. To be sure, India’s men’s hockey team has been here before:...