Nitish Kumar’s transition from Chief Minister is unfolding slowly due to strategic calculations and political negotiations. While his Rajya Sabha move signals a shift, his continued public engagement reflects a desire to retain influence. Internal divisions within BJP and RSS, along with JD(U)’s demands for key posts, have delayed the final decision, keeping Bihar’s political future uncertain for now.
At a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party is seeking to reach out to Christian voters ahead of the Kerala elections, the Union government has introduced sweeping changes to foreign funding laws, sparking fierce debate
Supply disruptions linked to West Asia tensions push up LPG prices, as vendors in Delhi’s largest wholesale vegetable market struggle with falling footfalls and shrinking margins.
In Outlook’s April 11 issue, Warlord, difficult questions are asked with tensions escalating, futures compromised, uncertainty looming and leaders of the free world blinded by the obnoxious lust for power and vested interests.
US-Israel-Iran War LIVE: As the war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered its fourth week, here are the latest updates.
A writer in four languages, she passed away on March 1 aged 89
Did Judas Iscariot–who betrayed Jesus—have God on his side? Bob Dylan asked 63 years ago. The US, Israel and Iran’s invocation of religious war brings that question back
Why did it take so very long for India to find its voice in the context of the multipronged attack on Iran?
Have the mandarins in South Block misread the US-Israel war against Iran?
India’s LPG system is efficient in normal times but fragile in crises
Long queues, rising black-market prices and shrinking meals mark the capital’s unfolding cooking gas crisis.
Migrant workers in Maximum City voice hunger issue hit by the LPG crisis triggered by the war in West Asia.
In Kashmir, the war against Iran and Iran’s retaliatory strikes have seen both men and women line up outside gas depots, and dwindling stocks mean that people’s daily routine has gone haywire.
How the war in West Asia is disrupting lives across India
The hospitality sector, particularly in India's hill states, may be hit hard by the energy crisis because of the war on Iran, soon before peak tourist season
With shifting alliances, internal crises within established parties, and new political actors seeking space, the coming election could test the resilience of the Dravidian political order
Ahead of the polls, TMC presents 2026 as a battle remains against an external ideological force, while for BJP it is about reclaiming Bengal’s 'lost past' centered around Hindu identity.
As the "culture war” is waged by the camps in Bengal, it falls in the pattern of distancing the voters from material issues like corruption, or industrial decline
Assam’s electoral issues are many: eviction drives, razed lives and identity crises
Pragmatism has often preceded ideology in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s decision-making in Left-ruled Kerala
Federal relations, rather than being cooperative, have turned conflictual, and since the last decade or so, become mutually manipulating
When the politics of the day seeks to bring its divisive agenda to the classroom and poison the minds of future generations with propaganda, only the court can intervene to preserve our constitutional values
It is not enough to drown-swim in our anguish at what is being unleashed in so many unequal wars around us.
This collection of essays is a testimony to cities that devolve, disappear, and reappear as altered landscapes, haunted by the histories they can no longer hold
The basic thing that people in Iran have wanted all this time is simple: a secular state, a separation of church and state. Democracy, a voice, a normal life without fear, without control.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief urges vigilance against “intruders”, discourages forced religious conversions
US-Israel-Iran War LIVE: As the war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered its fourth week, here are the latest updates.
India vs Bangladesh Live Score, SAFF U20 Championship 2026: Follow the play-by-play updates from the IND vs BAN U20 football match in Maldives on March 28, 2026
As the UN declares transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity, Hollywood's long reckoning with slavery feels more urgent and more ironic than ever.
The documentary is a tale of how the seven have changed: how time, fame and military service have reshaped them and what that change does to the art that comes out the other side.
Presented at the Alliance Française de Delhi in March 2026, Home Away From Home (Le geste juste) explores the idea of the “right gesture”—the moment when thought becomes action and an idea takes material form.
From Indian rap and American pop to Japanese anime, paedophilic interests can masquerade as the fantasy and fetishisation of the ‘schoolgirl aesthetic’.
The documentary is a tale of how the seven have changed: how time, fame and military service have reshaped them and what that change does to the art that comes out the other side.
Presented at the Alliance Française de Delhi in March 2026, Home Away From Home (Le geste juste) explores the idea of the “right gesture”—the moment when thought becomes action and an idea takes material form.
From Indian rap and American pop to Japanese anime, paedophilic interests can masquerade as the fantasy and fetishisation of the ‘schoolgirl aesthetic’.
Riz Ahmed’s ‘Bait’ (2026) examines the brown celebrity (and family) through a self-aware comic frame that is at once incisive and reflective.
Combining disarming soulfulness with pure smarts, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller deliver the most enthralling time at the movies this year
The redeemer of Naya Bharat is the middle-aged, ultraviolent asexual hero—a machine being that can effortlessly simulate human sexuality, but the single-minded purpose of its construction is to do away with the nation’s enemies.
Hollywood may prefer its politics fictional, but artists, the stubborn creatures that they are, keep rabble rousing. One of the first major flashpoints in Hollywood arrived in the late 1970s with Vanessa Redgrave.
Critics' Choice Awards 2026 full winners list: In the feature film category, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, which led with six nominations, won four major awards. Black Warrant dominated in the web series category.
CPH:DOX 2026 | Director Nathan Grossman shrewdly uses a bipartite structure to undercut a Westerner’s excursion into the heart of an Amazonian tribe.
Reflecting on Emraan Hashmi’s 47th birthday today, the entanglement of his career with people discovering the delights of contraband sharing and digital repeatability, perhaps remains the biggest aspect his popularity.
The basic thing that people in Iran have wanted all this time is simple: a secular state, a separation of church and state. Democracy, a voice, a normal life without fear, without control.
Two decades later, Miley Cyrus' Disney alter ego returns with an anniversary special and a generation finds itself revisiting who they were when it all began.
The double Oscar-winning animated musical fantasy has sealed Hallyu’s total world domination. Its wins attest to the fact that even Hollywood has sat up to acknowledge K-Pop.
On his 95th martyrdom day, Bhagat Singh continues to be celebrated on screens, stages, songs, streets—caught between the definitions of martyr and thinker, patriot and radical, spectacle and symbol.
CPH:DOX 2026 | Pieter-Jan De Pue’s doc follows three brothers ripped apart by war, geographically and emotionally. It veers away from standard war chronicles into recollections and regrets left by such times.
'Bollywood By Choice' is Outlook's weekly column that examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of Indian cinema—Bollywood and beyond—offering praise and criticism with equal fairness to both the deserving and the disappointing.
Amid the state-aligned censorship of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ (2025) by the CBFC, here are ten films on Palestinian lives that remain accessible to watch in India.
Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated film serves an intense, impassioned wake-up call for everyone who has been witnessing a live-streamed genocide by Israel in Gaza for nearly three years.
A poem about the human costs of war and everyday resilience
Energy Transition Needs Teamwork, Not Silos: Jitendra Singh
FPIs Dump Record Rs 1.14 Lakh Crore Of Indian Equities In March Amid US-Iran War
iHeartRadio Music Awards 2026 Sees Major K-pop Wins
1,000-Year-Old Shiva Temple Now Lies In Ruins After Cambodia-Thailand Clashes
Asia's 50 Best Restaurants has released their list and with no surprise, Gaggan, Bangkok, is Thailand's best and Asia's 3rd best restaurant. And the man behind it is revolutionary. Meet Gaggan Anand
The luxury home living brand has come up with a 18,000 sqft flagship store at MG Road bringing its design-forward approach to furniture and collectibles
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