2024: The Year Of Shift In Politics

Much drama is likely to continue in the coming year within the Sangh Parivar as well as involving the Opposition parties and, of course, the BJP's allies, predicts Modi biographer Nilanjan......

Kargil@25: Lessons Learnt

India's tactical and operational response demonstrated its ability to prosecute tri-service operations, even without a formal tri-service doctrine or the higher command structure needed to......

'This election is an attempt to heal the people'

'There is a huge wait in Kashmir for compassion from the prime minister of India.' IMAGE: Waheed-ur-Rehman Para is thronged by people when he steps out of the car during his roadshow in Srinagar,......

US retaliates, bombs 85 sites of Iran-backed groups in Iraq, Syria

The US has conducted major airstrikes on 85 targets in Iraq and Syria against Iranian Revolutionary Guards and affiliated militia groups in retaliation for a drone strike on an American base in......

Of Modi, Trump and the rise of crony populism

India’s real risk is not that crony populism would fail, but that it would succeed, consolidating a path that is fundamentally a trap, both in terms of social inequalities and long-term......

40 years ago and now: How Ranbaxy moved out of family control

If Ranbaxy had to survive, it would have to grow abroad, induct professionals and invest in research, notes Bhupesh Bhandari Ranbaxy tasted success for the first time in the 1960s with its......

The politics behind slow economic reforms

If India has to exploit its latent potential and attain the targeted growth rate of 9-10 per cent annually in the coming decade, reforms of economic policies and administrative systems are critical......