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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Sunday conferred with Uzbekistan's highest honour for foreign leaders 'Oliy Darajali Do'stlik' Order, which he dedicated to the enduring bond between India and Uzbekistan. Modi is in Uzbekistan on a two-day visit to bolster ties in a range of areas including trade, clean energy and connectivity. The prime minister was conferred with the honour by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Honoured to receive the 'Oliy Darajali Do'stlik' Order. I dedicate this to the

Today's opinions examine P Chidambaram's critique of the Modi government's economic record, the CJP's political dilemma, Imran Khan's global support and the changing advertising landscape

India has sealed a deal with the US to procure Javelin anti-tank guided missile systems to bolster the Indian Army's combat prowess. US Ambassador Sergio Gor said the agreement reflects a bilateral defence partnership that is growing deeper, more capable, and more consequential. It is not immediately known the number of Javelin anti-tank guided missile systems India is procuring or the overall cost of the procurement. The United States welcomes the Indian Army's signing of a Letter of Offer and

The death toll from flash floods in central Nepal rose to 469 on Friday, with more bodies recovered as search and rescue operations continued for the third day following the disaster. In a statement, Nepal Police said the bodies were recovered from eight districts of the Himalayan nation. According to the police, 178 dead bodies have been recovered from Chitwan, 110 from Nawalparasi East, 44 from Gorkha, 37 from Nuwakot and 33 from Dhading district. Similarly, 28 bodies have been recovered from

Today's opinions examine India's skilling and employment mismatch, BIS certification reform, outcome-linked training, Colgate's D2C experiment and a new history of the East India Company.

The deal would create a strange paradox. Nvidia wants open models to thrive, but for a more self-interested reason: to stop OpenAI and other large AI companies from threatening its chip business.

The Nepal flash floods were triggered by a glacial collapse and not by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake as reported earlier, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said additional analysis of the long-period seismic waves indicated that the tremors were generated by a glacial collapse and debris flow. The flash floods originating in Tibet on Wednesday left a trail of death and destruction in Rasuwa and Dhading districts of Nepal, killing 162 people and leaving 750, including 133 Indian nationa

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines rising sugar prices, AI-led credit assessment, global trade dualism, mounting US fiscal risks and China's reshaping of collective memory.

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines US sanctions on Iran, H1N1 risks, aviation regulation, hard-to-abate sector transition plans and India's software product journey.

Durable growth depends not just on expansion but on stronger foundations across telecom, education, energy, skilling and institutions

Power needs limits, markets need protection, development needs ecological restraint, capital narratives need scrutiny, and technology needs human oversight

Today's opinions examine the Saudi-Turkiye-Pakistan defence pact, leadership challenges at the Tata group, Asim Munir's growing powers and the political potency of negative branding

Today's opinion pieces examine the RBI's policy outlook, weaknesses in public examinations, state capacity, India's infrastructure financing gap and Omer Bartov's critique of Israel

Today's opinion pieces examine India's persistent demand for cash, aviation safety, the coming leadership change at Tata Sons, the impact of US-China trade and life inside Tihar

Nine people, including a four-year-old child, were killed and six injured when a fire swept through a five-storey building housing several hotels in central Kolkata on Wednesday, with several Bangladeshis among the dead, prompting the government to order a statewide fire-safety audit. Officials of the state government and the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission initially said five of the deceased were Bangladeshis, including a woman and a child. However, sources at the Bangladesh mission later sai

The decline in US manufacturing jobs began decades before China's WTO entry. The bigger challenge is helping workers and regions adapt to economic disruption

Historian Sumit Sarkar transformed the study of modern India by connecting political history with culture, economy and social change, while engaging deeply with the challenges of the present

Today's opinions examine skilled overseas migration, workplace child care, India's youth employment challenge, AI governance in finance and a civilian account of war-torn Beirut

Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to grant default bail to Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, one of the accused in the 2025 Red Fort car bomb blast case. A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Vikas Mahajan dismissed Wani's appeal challenging a March 30 trial court order rejecting his plea seeking default bail. It is held that the accused is not entitled after 90 days. The appeal is liable to be dismissed, the bench said. An accused becomes entitled to default bail if the investigating agency f

US President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the US and Iran is expiring, with no word of an extension and both sides seemingly as far apart as they were at the start. Here's a look at the latest developments in the Iran war: Finalising deal with Oman on Strait of Hormuz: Iran --------------------------------

Institutions build trust, these pieces show, not by doing more, but by making their actions add up

We see a pattern in messages across these pieces: Temporary management can buy time, but durable change needs structural reform

Today's columns examine the case for keeping UPI free, Punjab's shifting political landscape, General A S Vaidya's forgotten legacy and the rise of founders as brand ambassadors.

Today's pieces examine mining reforms and fiscal federalism, India's need for a caregiving policy, stronger bank boards, urban governance and lessons in crisis leadership

Today's pieces examine Tata Sons' governance, India's compliance maze, the next phase of GST reforms, West Bengal's investment record and a book on entrepreneurial failure

The state could be the Bharatiya Janata Party's real test case of its business-friendly policies swot

Today's opinions examine tribunal appointments, aviation leadership, consultation gaps in ethanol and UPI policy, philanthropic capital for science, and a true-crime investigation.

Weak measurement systems distort markets before trust breaks down. Artificial intelligence raises human questions long before the technology becomes impossible to govern