Editorial

India is observing National Nutrition Week from September 1 to 7, the annual awareness campaign meant to spotlight balanced diets, maternal and infant nutrition, and the broader fight against malnutrition. It’s a worthy observance, and the government’s messaging around it — anganwadi outreach, dietary awareness drives, school-level nutrition education — reflects a genuine and long-running

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday blocked two separate protest marches in Srinagar — one by the ruling National Conference toward the BJP’s Jawahar Nagar office, another by the BJP toward the civil secretariat — with barricades stopping NC leaders including ministers and sitting MLAs near Rajbagh police station before they could even reach their

The India Meteorological Department has issued flash flood warnings across eight states and two union territories through this week, with Chhattisgarh and Odisha facing the gravest threat. Districts including Gaurela, Pendra, Marwahi, Balrampur, Surguja, Korba, Jashpur and Raipur are forecast to receive extremely heavy rainfall exceeding 204.5 mm, driven by a well-marked low-pressure system over

Buried inside the National Statistics Office’s press note on India’s 7.8 percent Q1 FY27 GDP growth is a detail more revealing than the headline number itself. Of the 7.8 percentage points of real growth, household consumption and fixed investment each contributed almost exactly 3.95 percentage points — equal to the second decimal place. Neither figure

General N.S. Raja Subramani assumed office as India’s third Chief of Defence Staff on May 31, inheriting a mandate built around theatre command reform, tri-services integration, and faster indigenous weapons induction. The Ministry of Defence’s own citation describes him as having “insightful knowledge and a deep understanding of operational dynamics on both the Western and

The India Meteorological Department’s latest bulletin forecasts fairly widespread to widespread rainfall across a broad swathe of northern and northeastern India over the coming days, with warnings extending from Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh through Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Punjab, and into eastern Uttar Pradesh, alongside isolated thunderstorm and lightning activity forecast across several of these regions into early

India’s economy grew 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter of FY 2026-27, comfortably beating the Reserve Bank of India’s own projection of 7 percent and outpacing most economist forecasts, which had clustered closer to 7-7.2 percent. It is, by any reasonable measure, a genuinely encouraging number, and it arrived under conditions that make it more

The Indian Army’s move to acquire US-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missiles is being framed, reasonably enough, as a modernization step — a portable, fire-and-forget system that fills a genuine capability gap in India’s anti-armour arsenal. Defence procurement of this kind draws attention and headlines precisely because it’s visible, negotiated at the highest diplomatic levels,

India and China concluded the 25th round of Special Representatives’ talks on the boundary question this week, emerging with an eight-point consensus. As with most rounds before it, the specifics remain deliberately vague in public messaging — broad language about maintaining peace, continuing dialogue, and building on existing confidence-building measures, without a disclosed roadmap for

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India is moving toward mandatory front-of-pack warning labels, flagging packaged foods high in sugar, salt, and fat with clear visual markers rather than the dense, easily ignored nutrition tables currently tucked onto the back of every packet. It is a genuinely overdue reform. India’s packaged food and snack