UPI has made informal workers more visible, but not more secure
Last month, the Lok Sabha passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, amending Section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the clause that has kept…
Last month, the Lok Sabha passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, amending Section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the clause that has kept…
Twenty-five minutes of applause for 24 anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers describing how Gaza was targeted. Within hours, the Venice ovation for NAZA had provoked a backlash. Some asked…
On September 10, Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report documenting nine months of AI misuse — December 2025 to August 2026. Two days later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published…
I have been riding motorcycles for nearly two decades. I have ridden alone, with other women and in large groups, across different parts of the country. I have had thousands…
September 17 marks Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday and the start of a month-long Seva Sankalp Abhiyan to mark 25 years of his uninterrupted leadership in government. The nation…
There has been considerable discussion in these pages on the accuracy and/or credibility of the GDP data for March-June 2026. My guess is that internationally also this debate has assumed…
4 min readSep 18, 2026 04:19 AM IST First published on: Sep 17, 2026 at 07:07 PM IST Razia Sultan Ismail, a pioneering woman journalist of the country and head…
3 min readSep 18, 2026 07:18 AM IST First published on: Sep 18, 2026 at 06:00 AM IST In line with expectations, the US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates…
3 min readSep 18, 2026 07:18 AM IST First published on: Sep 18, 2026 at 06:05 AM IST Officially, it was a “routine transfer” for “public interest”. The political context,…
2 min readSep 18, 2026 07:18 AM IST First published on: Sep 18, 2026 at 06:15 AM IST For two-and-a-half millennia, the Parthenon in Greece has been credited with an…