Sri Lanka’s economic distress and its ruling Rajapaksa family have achieved what many thought was impossible: bringing Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim together and, at least for now, uniting them in…
Tasneem Ahmad’s non-vegetarian food outlet near the bus stand on Meerut Road in Uttar Pradesh’s Sardhana had been doing brisk business for many years, serving nihari, korma and biryani, among…
During the Spanish Inquisition, it was often the telltale fragrance of food being cooked in olive oil that led the authorities to the houses of their victims. These were almost…
A paradigm shift in the way we think about climate action has been reported for the first time in the recent IPCC report through a chapter on “demand, services and…
We must admire the ingenuity of the NDA government that has found a way to connect taxes, welfare and winning votes. It was as ingenious as the Electoral Bond scheme…
Last week marked a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian president made an appeal for people who loved freedom and democracy to come out into their cities, their…
IN WHAT may seem like a natural extension in hindsight, Indian service startups are leveraging consumer data generated on their platform to understand market demand for specific products and expand…
Highlighting that ‘Cooperative Societies’ is a State subject under the Constitution, a parliamentary standing committee has advised the newly created Cooperation Ministry, which is headed by Amit Shah, to “exercise…
A parliamentary standing committee has asked the Ministry of Agriculture to constitute a special team to “figure out the reasons” for falling farmers’ income across several states and take “course…
A month after India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a free trade agreement, CEOs from several Gulf countries visited Kashmir to explore the investment opportunities there. The visit…