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The Violence Before the Crash
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India’s road-rage problem is a data blind spot, obscuring how traffic disputes turn violent.
On September 12, a 70-year-old man died on Lucknow’s Sitapur Road after his motorcycle scraped another...
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A Notice Is Not a Wall
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India has no shortage of building rules. The problem is making sure they produce safer buildings.
The recent collapse of a building in Delhi’s Satya Niketan area, which killed six...
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The Cost of Staying Vulnerable
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Nepal’s $5 billion reconstruction bill exposes a wider economic failure: when governments repeatedly restore vulnerable assets instead of investing in resilience, natural hazards become recurring fiscal shocks.
Nepal needs $4...
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India’s Fertility Fault Line
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As fertility falls below replacement level in several states, India faces a new demographic challenge: fewer workers, faster ageing and a growing economic cost of family formation.
India’s fertility rate...
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The Friction in India’s Credit Machine
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While better digital evidence can strengthen recovery, Indian lenders still face the deeper costs of slow adjudication and enforcement.
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India has become remarkably adept at moving money,...
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Paper Leaks Need More Than Tougher Laws
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The new anti-paper leak law rightly raises the cost of organised examination fraud, but protecting merit will need stronger institutions and better governance.
Nearly two million students were forced to...
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By Dial 112 for System Failure
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India’s emergency response system has entered a decisive phase. In May 2026, the Supreme Court directed every State and Union Territory to integrate multiple emergency helplines into 112 within three...
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Ladakh’s Unfinished Transition
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Five years after becoming a Union Territory, the Himalayan region is asking whether administrative control has come at the cost of representation, identity and ecological security.
Ladakh’s protest movement represents...
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The Next Chapter in India–Japan Ties
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The future of the partnership will be measured less by investment pledges than by the industrial ecosystems the two countries build together.
The 16th India-Japan Annual Summit held in New...
The Citizenship Gap
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From Aadhaar to e-passports, India has digitised governance at scale. But the legal architecture of citizenship remains opaque and poorly understood.
The recent controversy over the Ministry of External Affairs’...
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From Green Fuel to Strategic Fuel
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India’s ethanol revolution will succeed only if its costs are shared more fairly.
On June 13, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari approved regulations giving E100 fuel legal status in India. The...
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SpaceX’s IPO and India’s Sovereignty
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The record-breaking $1.75 trillion IPO underscores a new reality that nations which do not control critical digital infrastructure risk ceding part of their sovereignty.
Last week, SpaceX listed on Nasdaq...
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