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India has a unique opportunity to become a pivotal player on the global stage, according to Fareed Zakaria, India-born American journalist, political commentator and author. Speaking to the audience at the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence in Mumbai on Saturday, Zakaria said as a rising economic power, India is critical to the West for strategic reasons while remaining well-regarded and connected with the Global South.

weekend freedom through a continuous onslaught of emails and text messages? At work, we feel like slaves to continuous deadlines and targets, and feel confined by day-to-day problems and workfires, which inevitably steal our available time. What are freedom and slavery? Despite living as slaves under imperial governments, Gandhi and Mandela were free humans. They did what they liked, thought what they wanted, and determined their priorities as they preferred. Even in prison, they expressed themselves in the context of their value systems, ignoring iron bars that locked their physical beings. Indian spirituality differentiates among mind, intellect and soul as three separate components of our being. Our mind is a centre of emotions, intellect is a place for logic and reasoning, and soul is our real self. In Bhagwad Gita, chapter 2.55, Krishn says that when one thoroughly casts off cravings of mind and is satisfied in the Self, he has a stable mind, Stithaprajna. Krishn prescribes meditation to achieve this stable mind.

Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU), more than 100 people gathered at Freedom Park in Bengaluru on Sunday to advocate for a healthy work-life balance in the IT sector. Expressing disappointment over the turnout, KITU advisor Vasanthraj said that, given Bengaluru's status as a tech hub, at least 6,000 people should have participated to make their collective voice heard. «The hard reality is that IT industry captains are minting profits through the dollar exchange rate but end up squeezing workers. In the last three decades, the IT industry should have become an IT product giant. But despite moving up a few steps in the value chain, it remains a service industry,» said Vasanthraj. KITU member Ram said the protest was organised to counter recent remarks by Infosys Chairman Emeritus Narayana Murthy and L&T Chairman and Managing Director S N Subrahmanyan, who have blamed workers for the sector's failure to move up the value chain.

Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of «lying» to the country, alleging that he has told eleven significant lies during his eleven years in power. Speaking at an event to launch the Kalyana Patha project in Jewargi, aimed at laying 1,166 km of roads across 38 rural constituencies in Kalyan Karnataka, Kharge criticised Modi's promises. The project, which is modeled after the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, will be implemented at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore. «In eleven years Modi has said eleven big lies, not small ones. First lie is to bring black money from abroad and put Rs 15 lakh each to the bank accounts of the people. Second lie is creating 2 crore jobs every year. Did you get it, no. But I still don't know why our youths support him? Do they do it on the basis of caste, religion, conduct, I don't understand,» Kharge said. Addressing the gathering, he wondered why people don't support those from the Congress party, whose leaders have dedicated their lives serving the poor, sacrificed their lives, and fought for the freedom of the country.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is one of the most important tools for keeping the U.S. government transparent. It lets journalists, researchers, and regular people request documents and information to see how the government is really working. This is super important when it comes to Elon Musk’s mysterious Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been cutting jobs and budgets at federal agencies super fast and without much explanation. FOIA helps uncover what’s really going on behind the scenes.

South Korean military said Thursday, days after North Korea threatened high-profile provocations against what it called escalating U.S.-led aggression. The South Korean and U.S. forces will take part in the Freedom Shield exercise, a computer-simulated command post training, and related field exercises from Monday to March 20, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff in a statement. The statement said the Freedom Shield exercise will involve responses to evolving challenges like North Korea's growing military partnership with Russia.

Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) surged as much as 3.7% on Tuesday to Rs 115.25 on the BSE after the Government of India granted the company a Navratna status, enhancing its financial and operational autonomy. The Department of Public Enterprises announced on Monday that IRFC and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have been accorded Navratna status, expanding the list of such Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to 26. IRCTC shares also gained on Tuesday, rising as much as 0.7% to Rs 680.7 on the BSE.

European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The government's recent advisory to social media and streaming platforms to strictly monitor and remove all content deemed obscene or vulgar, following a massive outrage over distasteful jokes on YouTube show India’s Got Latent featuring podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia and comic Samay Raina, has sparked concerns about sweeping content regulations that could follow, potentially curbing freedom of expression.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China, the world’s second-largest economy, is already one of the most impenetrable countries. Now, the Trump administration’s move to suspend foreign aid is starting to derail nonprofit efforts to unearth data on business and social trends—which was already hard to track.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Emerging media platforms and traditional moral values never make for good bedfellows. The controversy that erupted over online influencer and podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, his curiously named company BeerBiceps and some of his fellow travellers has consumed India’s content devouring population, evoking strong emotions and extreme views online.

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South China Sea have made freedom of navigation exercises «even more important», France's ambassador to the Philippines said Sunday, as the nuclear-powered Charles De Gaulle made its first port visit to the country.

Giorgia Meloni has taken aim at what she calls the «double standards» of the global Left, accusing liberals of reacting with «hysteria» to the rise of right-wing leaders across the world. Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington DC via video link, she argued that figures like herself, US President Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Argentine President Javier Milei represent a new, collaborative conservative movement that challenges the old political order.

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Family businesses in India have been able to survive for centuries as succeeding generations have been given the freedom to create their own ideas, RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Vice-Chairman Shashwat Goenka said on Friday.

Arunachal Pradesh home minister Mama Natung held a meeting with leaders of the Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) on implementation of the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA), 1978. The meeting however remained inconclusive.

Samay Raina has become one of the most Googled names in India across the past week for the wrong reasons. The comedian-influencer who landed in legal trouble and faced a huge backlash when podcast host Ranveer Allahabadia made a rather crass joke about Indian parents on his show ‘India’s Got Latent’ appears unfazed by the controversy.

The Speaker's podium in the Lok Sabha has entry points from both the ruling and Opposition sides. While this is meant for MPs to enter and exit the podium while taking oath and occasionally go to the chamber behind the Speaker's chair for meetings, during the previous sessions a few protesting MPs used the entry points to trespass to the podium. The half doors at the entry points that used to remain open are now locked and no one can enter the podium without the aid of marshals. While the message is clear, none has complained. Delhi Elections LiveTax calculator

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1809, a British official took great umbrage at the conduct of an Indian prince. The ruler of Gwalior, the man reported, had “bestowed his affections" on a woman called Rus Kufoor.