The Nepali Congress-led ruling alliance is poised to retain office in Kathmandu. Delhi must build on the goodwill it has cultivated.

In the post-truth era of fake news and personally-tailored “facts”, gaslighting is a political strategy and idiom. But given that more and more people are searching for its meaning, there might be hope that truth and reason may prevail.

The Constitution is clear on the balance of powers, the Supreme Court's pushback against what tantamounts to overreach by the political executive is timely and welcome. In parallel, the court should step into overdrive when it comes to reforms within -- that make it more transparent and accountable.

What is a film festival where an artist, especially one invited to chair a jury, can't speak his mind? India-Israel bilateral ties do not not hang by the slender thread of a film review.

With this move, he has managed a victory for all those who have rolled their eyes at the exclamation-mark-ridden emails from HR. In France, where philosophers have long recognised that hell is other people, solitude should be a worker’s right.

Considering that India's petroleum imports have risen by a staggering 60 per cent between April-October this year, exerting pressure on the currency, lower oil prices if sustained could help bring down the import burden, ease the risks to macroeconomic stability.

Xi, who has centralised powers in his hands, now personifies the Chinese state. How he deals with the anger of the Chinese people is going to be telling.

From bringing special criminal legislations as populist measures to opposing bail as part of a tougher stance on crime, there are several issues for the government to address.

Cultivation of millets deserves a special push, given their nutritional superiority over wheat and rice — whether in terms of amino acid profile or vitamins, minerals and crude fibre content.

The time has come to look beyond emergency measures and provide the country’s public health services its long-overdue boost. The gains of the Universal Immunisation Programme should not be overturned by health emergencies.