Washington: The United States on Wednesday ruled out granting any further exemption from sanctions for the purchase of Russian or Iranian oil. US Treasury Scott Bessent announced at a press conference at the White House here. “We will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil, and we will not be renewing the general…
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the ongoing West Asia conflict and its global ramifications, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday underlined India’s strong commitment to “safe and unimpeded” transit passage of maritime shipping, even as he emphasised that attacks on merchant shipping are “completely unacceptable”. The EAM said this in his remarks while…
N Nagarajan India stands at a moral crossroads when it comes to the care of its senior citizens. In recent years, both the Centre and State governments have stepped in with legal safeguards to protect the elderly from neglect and abuse—an intervention that, in itself, reflects a worrying social decline. That such laws are even…
What has exploded out of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Nashik unit is not merely a corporate scandal—it is a damning indictment of institutional apathy, systemic collapse, and a pattern of abuse that was conveniently dismissed for years as “propaganda” or “conspiracy.” Not anymore. The disturbing allegations—ranging from sexual harassment and rape to coercion and…
By 2026, simply invoking “generative AI” is no longer enough. The conversation has moved on—and so must your website. Today’s AI landscape is defined not by what AI can say, but by what it can do. Welcome to the era of Agentic and Physical AI—where intelligence is autonomous, actionable, and embedded in both digital and…
The Global Premise: Demographic Decline as a Real Estate Thesis-Killer The most durable real estate bull market in modern history was, at its foundation, a demographic story. Post-war baby booms created large generational cohorts that progressively moved through the property cycle — from renting in their twenties, to first-home buying in their thirties, to upgrade…
For decades, generations of Indians have been taught to view their land as a passive corridor of history—a mere recipient of waves of migration, invasions, and cultural impositions. The persistence of the Aryan Invasion Theory in textbooks reinforces this narrative, reducing India to a footnote in the grand story of human origins. But modern genetic…
The city of eleven gates is indeed of the unborn, even-minded Self. Having meditated upon this, one grieves not, and the liberated one is ever liberated indeed. This is verily that. ‘This is verily That’ is again repeated here. This world is verily That Brahman. Brahman here is with reference to microcosm. In Bhagavad Gita…
To attempt to encapsulate Asha Bhosle in a few words would be an injustice—not merely to the artist, but to the very idea of Indian womanhood she so effortlessly embodies. If one were to gather every interview she has ever given, every anecdote she has shared, every reflection she has offered, what would emerge is…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the Tristubh cadence of the ancient hymns, the sage Parāśara invokes Agni with a vision both intimate and cosmic, where the rhythms of human life mirror the sacred operations of the universe. The prayer unfolds through symbolic parallels: as a devoted wife gently prevails upon her husband through harmony and persistence,…
