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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is popularly known for its annual meeting held at Davos. The 2026 WEF edition just ended just recently and if you still don’t know what WEF is all about, this is the perfect time to learn! Source link

Quinton de Kock during a practice session. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Quinton de Kock stressed that the recent flurry of T20Is between India and South Africa could add a twist to the T20 World Cup Super Eight game between the two teams.“We will have a good game because we have played against each other quite a bit over the last two months. The teams haven’t really changed much. So I think it’s more about who deals with the pressure better and wins the small moments in the game,” said the South African opener at the Narendra Modi Stadium in…

“The crisis consists in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci’s line was meant for another era, but it feels uncomfortably familiar today.There is a temptation to treat US President Donald Trump’s unpredictability as spectacle. A personality quirk amplified by social media and a permanent news cycle. But step back, and a more unsettling picture emerges. What looks like chaos is, at times, the point.For all the arguments for or against Trump, even his fiercest critics agree on one thing: he is quite…

Telangana Congress president A. Revanth Reddy. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Defying all the impossibilities in politics, new Chief Minister of Telangana Anumula Revanth Reddy made it to the top post in the youngest State of the country.Spirited, ambitious and yet sometimes outlandish with his dreams, he has never been in a ruling party in his political career of 17 years and never held an administrative post but he had a burning desire and mighty guts to tread the path he believed would get him to the higher echelons of politics. Dreams can be turned into realities is what…

This image is used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The rupee depreciated 11 paise to 90.43 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday (February 4, 2026), after a sharp rally in the previous trading session following India-U.S. trade deal announcement, on suspected dollar buying by corporates and importers.Forex traders said despite the positive sentiment after the India-U.S. trade deal, caution still remains as there is no signed or officially released trade agreement yet — no framework text or final documentation.At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 90.35 and touched an early high of 90.26…

India’s multilateral approach has paid good dividends in terms of diversification of its collaborators and markets, and kept its growth trajectory intact and expanding, despite punitive tariffs imposed by the USThe 27-member EU, supported by its neighbouring countries, mostly in Eastern Europe, who also want to join it, is a very large and influential economic unit. Croatia was a recent entrant after many years of adjustments and preparation. The EU is a $22.52 trillion conglomerate on a nominal basis or $30.18 trillion on a purchasing power parity basis. Great Britain, no longer in the EU after Brexit, has already signed…

The death toll due to torrential rains,rain-related incidents caused by Michaung cyclone in Chennai and three neighbouring districts rose to seven on December 5. Meanwhile, over 61,600 people were moved to relief camps in nine districts, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said. Cyclone Michaung tracker December 5, 2023While addressing a press conference in the Secretariat, Chief Secretary Shiv Das Meena said additional workforce is being sourced from neighbouring districts to undertake relief operations in Chennai and three neighbouring districts on war footing and that necessary additional equipment was also being sourced. While over 3,000 workers are involved in clearing up debris…

While presenting the Union Budget 2026-27, a considerable part of the Finance Minister’s Budget speech dealt with the expenditure programmes that will be launched to enable India to become developed by 2047. The emphasis on the advanced technology sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, biopharma, semiconductor and critical minerals among others, is well taken. The concern with these expenditure programmes is on how well they are going to be implemented and the pace at which they will enable the goal of Viksit Bharat to be achieved.Expenditure priorities, revenue prospectsIn order to provide fiscal space for these changing priorities, the Government of…

For decades, the Western world sold a lie — and a convenient one — about the existence of a “rules-based international order”. It was presented as unbiased, principled and universal: an enlightened, democratic alternative to raw power politics. In reality, it was more of a club, if not a cartel, whose rules were written by the powerful few, enforced selectively, and ignored whenever inconvenient. And like all successful cartels, it endured not because it was fair, but because everyone pretended it was.STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADThat pretence is now collapsing, amidst the disruptions caused by US President Donald Trump.What makes…

A visitor to Odisha’s Lulkidihi village in Sundargarh district, will see their phone light up with BSNL’s welcome messages from Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand. But before the one-nation-one-number plan was implemented in 2015, the now 60-year-old Victor Minz would cross State borders countless times, from this village bordering the other two States, to access cheaper rates and better phone networks, just to make anxious calls to New Delhi and Mumbai. He was desperately looking for his second daughter, Rati (name changed to protect privacy), then about 16. Two decades since Rati left for New Delhi to work as a house-help,…