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India’s Above-Normal Monsoon Brings Mixed Fortunes For Kharif Crops; Excess Rainfall Damages Paddy, Pulses, Cotton

India’s Above-Normal Monsoon Brings Mixed Fortunes For Kharif Crops; Excess Rainfall Damages Paddy, Pulses, Cotton

The southwest monsoon 2025 commenced its withdrawal by mid-September. It is time to evaluate its performance and look at harvest prospects of key...

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Bihar Elections 2025: 80 Lakh Voters Missing From Rolls After Controversial Revision, Raising Fears Of Large-Scale Disenfranchisement

Bihar Elections 2025: 80 Lakh Voters Missing From Rolls After Controversial Revision, Raising Fears Of Large-Scale Disenfranchisement

The Election Commission’s announcement of the Bihar Assembly elections has finally ended weeks of speculation. The 243 constituencies will go to...

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Chennai Zoo Drama: Young Lion Sheryaar’s Midnight Walk Sparks Nationwide Speculation On Freedom And Loneliness

Chennai Zoo Drama: Young Lion Sheryaar’s Midnight Walk Sparks Nationwide Speculation On Freedom And Loneliness

The metropolis of Chennai has been held in thrall by a gripping drama of royal proportions, whose impact was felt all over the country. The...

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Keir Starmer’s India Visit: Cementing Strategic Ties & Trade Prospects

Keir Starmer’s India Visit: Cementing Strategic Ties & Trade Prospects

The visit, by all accounts, is a critical milestone in the India-UK relationship, coming just over two months after the signing of the landmark...

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Ks Tomar

Maharashtra Civic Polls 2025: Shifting Alliances Ahead As Thackeray Cousins Explore Reunion, BJP Plans Mixed Strategy Across Cities

Maharashtra Civic Polls 2025: Shifting Alliances Ahead As Thackeray Cousins Explore Reunion, BJP Plans Mixed Strategy Across Cities

Maharashtra has seen the most unexpected twists and turns in politics in the last three years, as leaders were suddenly seen switching sides.

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Rohit Chandavarkar

Yoga Insights: Understanding Yama And Niyama As The Ethical Foundation Of Patanjali’s Eightfold Yoga

Yoga Insights: Understanding Yama And Niyama As The Ethical Foundation Of Patanjali’s Eightfold Yoga

Yoga is said to be “karma-su-kaushalam” by Gitacharya Krishna in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. The meaning is excellence and expertise in the actions...

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Custody Over Ballots: A Constitutional Misadventure

Custody Over Ballots: A Constitutional Misadventure

Indian democracy stands at a perilous junction. The proposed 130th Constitutional Amendment—mandating automatic resignation of the prime minister,...

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Ks Tomar

India Needs A New Playbook For Managing Its Troubled Neighbourhood

India Needs A New Playbook For Managing Its Troubled Neighbourhood

Yet, the fact that India’s strategists have as yet not been able to create a playbook for either managing them or even predicting which way the...

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Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

Dharavi Project: A Township For Dignity & Livelihoods

Dharavi Project: A Township For Dignity & Livelihoods

For decades, Dharavi has epitomized two contradictory realities: the hardship of congested informal settlements and an extraordinary homegrown...

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Dr Ajith Chandran

Rule Of Law Vs Rule By Force

Rule Of Law Vs Rule By Force

This ideal, however, has faced a starkly modern challenge: the rise of ‘bulldozer justice’. In states like Uttar Pradesh, governments have employed...

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Fpj Editorial

Japan Gets Its First Woman PM

Japan Gets Its First Woman PM

The conservative hardliner of more than three decades standing on Saturday narrowly defeated the minister of agriculture and a political scion in...

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Fpj Editorial

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami Message: Between Cultural Sermon And Political Counsel

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami Message: Between Cultural Sermon And Political Counsel

At Reshimbagh on Vijayadashami this year, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat offered a speech that was at once pastoral and...

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Ks Tomar

From Collapse To Compounding Growth: The Bihar Story Under NDA & Nitish Kumar

From Collapse To Compounding Growth: The Bihar Story Under NDA & Nitish Kumar

There was a time, not too long ago, when Bihar symbolized despair. Before 2005, the state was crippled by broken roads, erratic power, and a...

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Sammridh Varma

Dr GG Parikh, 101, Passes Away: Last Of The Gandhians Leaves Enduring Legacy

Dr GG Parikh, 101, Passes Away: Last Of The Gandhians Leaves Enduring Legacy

Dr GG, or GG-sahab, as he was fondly called by contemporaries and younger generations, lived an enviable life with meaningful work, unwavering...

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Fpj Editorial

Judges' Integrity Under Scrutiny: Gujarat HC Upholds Public Interest Retirements

Judges' Integrity Under Scrutiny: Gujarat HC Upholds Public Interest Retirements

The Gujarat High Court ruled that a single adverse remark or question on a judge’s integrity can justify compulsory retirement, even without a...

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Climate Activist Gitanjali Angmo: The Voice Of Ladakh's People & Protector Of Its Fragile Ecology

Climate Activist Gitanjali Angmo: The Voice Of Ladakh's People & Protector Of Its Fragile Ecology

A Chevening scholar and social entrepreneur, she relocated to Ladakh in 2017 with the focus of creating a model of experiential learning whereby...

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Rashme Sehgal

Indian Women Authors Are Rewriting The Literary Map

Indian Women Authors Are Rewriting The Literary Map

The works of Indian women authors have challenged conventions, redefined narratives, and broadened the scope of South Asian literature. Since the...

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Aditya Mukherjee