April 14, 2025, 7:42 AM IST
Though corruption is commonly cited as a leading issue in many countries, what it reveals about the state of a nation is far from straightforward Some economists and historians see corruption as a perfectly natural�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 7:42 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 7:28 AM IST
By Jug Suraiya US Vice-President JD Vance created a stir in Christian circles recently when he made a public reference to ‘Ordo amoris�? which in English translates as ‘Order of love�? The term, which is�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 7:28 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
All cats are grey in the dark, the Scandinavians say The intrepid traveller has journeyed to the edge of the world and braved double-digit sub-zero temperatures, endured the perpetual dreary darkness of winter at the�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Imagine you’re buying candy at a shop and you try to pay using your phone—but it doesn’t work. That’s what happened to lots of people in India recently when UPI had technical problems. Payments didn’t�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Trump’s done right by freeing IT hardware from tariffs; slapping sectoral tariffs now would be silly Good policy, like a good shirt, requires few or no alterations. But Trump is tailor swift, and his policy-making�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Right now, China and the United States are in a big argument about trade—basically, they’re charging each other super high prices (called tariffs) to buy and sell stuff like shoes, phones, and clothes. This is�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Good rules don’t need to be changed too much. But former President Trump has been changing his trade rules a lot lately, especially with China, and it’s been causing problems for the U.S. economy. Between�?/p>
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 7:35 AM IST
The current tariff war would warm the cold dead remains of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. The basic assumption that Trump and his team seem bound to is the old notion that factors of production�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 7:35 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 7:29 AM IST
At a recent conference, commerce minister Piyush Goel told India’s tech startups to aim for higher innovation, and this has sparked a big debate. He said: “What are India’s startups of today? We are focused�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 7:29 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 7:23 AM IST
By Swami Swaroopananda Puranas venerate Hanumanji as Vayu Putra, son of wind god. According to Vedas, space gives rise to vayu, air, from which agni, fire, is born. If vayu is the cause and agni,�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 7:23 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
**Sending money is not the same as giving real help** Some people in the government in Uttar Pradesh (a state in India) did something very wrong. They used the names of three women to steal�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
People & moments that led to Ukraine, Gaza, Trump 2.0 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodword’s War is a riveting inside-the-room account of three crucial wars that have roiled the world in the last three�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
This week, the U.S. government sold a lot of its bonds (kind of like IOUs where people lend money to the government and get paid back later). At first, it seemed like people still wanted�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Cash transfer no substitute for last-mile public health A gang of UP govt insiders is believed to have used identities of at least three women, as a probe has revealed so far, to claim cash�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
For Trump, the bond movie ain’t over yet Strong demand during US bond auctions on Wednesday and Thursday might have reassured Trump, but the selloff that started on April 9 �?in response to his�?/p>
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 11, 2025, 7:06 PM IST
By Sumit Paul It’s imperative to know that Jainism is often described as not atheistic in the strictest sense, but rather transtheistic or nontheistic, as it rejects the idea of a creator god but acknowledges�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 7:06 PM IST
April 11, 2025, 7:23 AM IST
US president kept golfing over the weekend as ‘Hands Off�?protests spread across the country. It’s ‘yippy�?investors offloading American bonds alongside stocks that finally forced a U-turn There is now a level of opposition�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 7:23 AM IST
April 11, 2025, 7:17 AM IST
Recent state responses to satire remind us that free speech flourishes in societies comfortable with sharp comedy, historical complexity and ambiguity British TV series Monty Python staged an episode called ‘Ministry of Silly Walks�? In�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 7:17 AM IST
April 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Summer 2025 might be even hotter than last year �?and that’s saying something! In 2024, the first really hot days (called a heatwave) started in April in parts of India. But this year, Mumbai�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
April 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
You might think former U.S. President Donald Trump is taking it easy now, but nope �?he’s still shaking things up, especially with something called tariffs. What’s a tariff? A tariff is like a tax�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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