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Fuel Panic Politics Backfires Again

A television debate last night exposed, yet again, the Opposition’s instinct to manufacture panic rather than contribute constructively during a crisis. Representatives of AAP and the Samajwadi Party took exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comparison of the current fuel and LPG situation—arising from the West Asia conflict—with the Covid-19 pandemic. Their outrage, however, says…

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Is the World Looking to Narendra Modi for Conflict Resolution?

A Reality Check Amid Global Turbulence At a time when multiple theatres of conflict—from Eastern Europe to West Asia—continue to simmer or spiral, the question of credible global leadership has once again come to the fore. With traditional power centres appearing either overstretched or inconsistent, there is a growing conversation in diplomatic and strategic circles:…

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Did Revanth Reddy’s government miss the AI Bus?

When global tech giants place billion-dollar bets, they don’t merely choose geography — they choose governance, vision and velocity. So, when Google Cloud announced its largest AI and data centre hub outside the United States — a multi-gigawatt, $15 billion investment — and chose Visakhapatnam over Hyderabad, the question naturally arose: what went wrong in…

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Parliament Held Hostage

Parliament, often described as the “temple of democracy”, witnessed a spectacle this week that should deeply shame every believer in constitutional politics. For four consecutive days, the Congress-led Opposition chose disruption over discussion, theatrics over substance, and brinkmanship over parliamentary responsibility. What began as a rigid and unreasonable demand soon degenerated into chaos that dragged…

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