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What next after the temple ceremony in Ayodhya Another form of secularism may get a chance to flourish now that a long cultural battle has ended.

Can Ayodhya be India's biggest tourist hotspot? Religious tourism holds high market potential and a town that blends Modi’s vision in key ways is now set for a commercial boom. Think of Say’s Law: Supply spells its own demand.

Maldives hits refresh in ties with China but that’s not all why India must tread carefully The new administration in Malé seems intent on breaking the Maldives’ identity as a small island state dependent on its larger neighbour for security, and asserting the country’s ability to choose its own...

Charging Israel with genocide makes a mockery of the ICJ South Africa’s claim before the ICJ that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians obscures the real worry that Israel’s destructive campaign is breaking the laws of war

Ayodhya will be a shining example of uniting faiths This Ramlala temple represents a fresh but very healthy tradition

A tale of India’s two big export industries: And a lesson on incentives We’re talking about petroleum and IT service exports. Policymakers must not distort incentives too much in favour of industries, but aim to create a level playing field.

Nikki Haley can’t beat Trump in the game of identity politics Haley has had no response to Trump’s signalling on her lineage and her campaign seems somewhat ill-equipped to contest her rival’s race plank.

Let’s expand social security: Provident fund reforms are vital for India A five-point agenda to fix the country’s PF scheme could shift 50 million people from informal to formal work. Let’s blend idealism with pragmatism.

No, Joe Biden’s political career is not going the same way as Jimmy Carter’s did History suggests that American voters prefer optimism and that’s clearly what Biden is betting on, while Trump claims that America is suffering from a deep-seated malaise and rages about retribution.

Why America struggles to make friends abroad The newly elected president of Saffronia is granted an audience in the West Wing

Interim Budget 2024: Navigating the crossroads Facing the FY25 interim budget, India balances optimistic growth with fiscal challenges, requiring strategic measures to address economic slowdown, inflation, and sectoral development, while maintaining global fiscal credibility

Will Zee’s Goenka go along with Sony, or simply go away? Any resolution in the Zee-Sony merger drama would hinge on which party will blink first

Skiers might be staring at snowless slopes for years as the world warms A snow scarcity at Gulmarg and Auli has disappointed skiing buffs. Since global warming, unlike El Niño, isn’t about to reverse, this problem may persist. They’ll need innovative lures.

AI could herald a new digital era as apps give way to voice agents AI assistants acting on verbal commands can transform our lives just as apps on digital devices did. Early AI agents could fail but the concept has much going for it.

ASER math gap: Can AI make up? That more than half of rural India’s 14-18-year-olds can’t do a three-digit arithmetic division raises the worry of an underskilled youth bulge. AI may help with basic math, but it won't help develop reasoning as a skill.

India needs a new passenger-handling manual for hopelessly delayed  flights If the Met department could forecast the onset of fog and the lifting of fog better, airlines could tailor their schedules around that. Planes too need to be equipped with technology to fly in poor visibility.

Tee-off or not to tee-off: The dilemma of Delhi’s smog Visibility is so low that caddies run ahead and call from the next golf hole on their phones to say players ahead have moved on. At the other end of the city’s spectrum are people who install air purifiers and then monitor their indoor air...

Beware: OpenAI is going after the global engagement-economy Bots based on its AI model will make money by engaging people. But business models that grab and rivet eyeballs have already had adverse effects.

The world confronts four major economic challenges right now We face a climate transition, good-jobs problem, an economic-development crisis and the search for a better form of globalization. Conventional economics needn’t be dumped but economists must apply their tools to the objectives and...

We must focus on public transportation to improve productivity Smooth public transportation has various social and economic benefits. We need to disincentivize private vehicles by levying more taxes on their use and ending their hidden subsidies.