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India lends helping hand to Sri Lanka

Harsh V. Pant Finally, the President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, spoke, and he spoke under duress. After months of refusing to take decisive measures to stem the tide of impending economic and political collapse, the people of Sri Lanka…

Roadmap for mitigating heatwave challenges

Tikender Singh Panwar Rising temperatures have started hitting the poor the hardest. According to The Nature Volunteers, the maximum temperatures recorded recently in some Indian cities were (in degrees celsius) Lucknow 47, Delhi 47, Agra 45, Nagpur 49, Kota 48,…

The Challenge with India’s Gig Economy

Nilanjan Banik The continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war is raising the fear of an imminent stagflation (a combination of inflation and unemployment led by a low growth). Worldwide inflation numbers are on the rise. Most sources of data are suggesting…

New, Asymmetric Cold War and Climate Change

T K Arun America wants to weaken Russia, said US defence secretary Lloyd Austin when he visited Ukrainian capital Kyiv in late April. This was a candid statement of the US war aim in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces do the fighting,…

Pleas by political parties irk Supreme Court

T K Arun On Monday, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court questioned the right of a political party to file a petition seeking the stay of a demolition of unauthorised structures in Shaheen Bagh, which had remained a nondescript,…

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