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Tamil Nadu Temple-Mosque Boundary Dispute: Court Orders Lamp Lighting At Contested Stone Pillar

Tamil Nadu Temple-Mosque Boundary Dispute: Court Orders Lamp Lighting At Contested Stone Pillar

A legal battle has reignited over lighting a ceremonial lamp at a stone pillar near the Murugan temple and a dargah on Thiruparankundram hill,...

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G. Ananthakrishnan

Shrinking Parliament, Shrinking Debates

Shrinking Parliament, Shrinking Debates

Elections demand enormous expenditure. Maintaining the Parliament Secretariat, paying salaries and perks to members, and extending pensions to...

yesterday 7

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Fpj Editorial

Justice At Crossroads In Kochi

Justice At Crossroads In Kochi

The court faulted the prosecution for failing to establish conspiracy and instigation against Dileep beyond reasonable doubt. Yet, it held that the...

yesterday 7

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Fpj Editorial

SIR Chaos Exposes Systemic Faults — The Supreme Court Draws A Red Line

SIR Chaos Exposes Systemic Faults — The Supreme Court Draws A Red Line

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the ongoing controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls could not have come at a...

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Fpj Web Desk

India Breathes Toxic Air — And The Centre Claims It Has No Record Of Damage

India Breathes Toxic Air — And The Centre Claims It Has No Record Of Damage

India’s junior health minister Prataprao Jadhav’s admission in Parliament that the Union government does not have the data on the deaths and...

yesterday 6

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Fpj Web Desk

Vande Mataram’s 150-Year Journey: Why The Forgotten National Song Is A Debate India Needed

Vande Mataram’s 150-Year Journey: Why The Forgotten National Song Is A Debate India Needed

The parliamentary debate marking the 150th anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’ has revived an 88-year-old controversy, casting the Congress into a...

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Bhavdeep Kang

Is Cash Now The 'King' Of Maharashtra's Political Game?

Is Cash Now The 'King' Of Maharashtra's Political Game?

Just ahead of the big civic poll season, too many cases of rampant cash seizure are seen in Maharashtra The state election commission and other...

yesterday 6

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Rohit Chandavarkar

Why Spiritual Awareness Helps Strengthen Relationships And Improve Behavioural Response

Why Spiritual Awareness Helps Strengthen Relationships And Improve Behavioural Response

Most of us would agree that a lot of the successes that we achieve in our lives, big or small, are made possible and easy by the cooperation of...

yesterday 6

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Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji

Vegetable Oil Data Collection: Monitor Imports Too

Vegetable Oil Data Collection: Monitor Imports Too

Data drought: Speculators thrive on information arbitrage in the absence of timely data relating to production, processing, export, import, and...

yesterday 4

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G Chandrashekhar

IndiGo Chaos Exposed A Bigger Crisis: India’s Weak Regulators And Tainted Capitalism

IndiGo Chaos Exposed A Bigger Crisis: India’s Weak Regulators And Tainted Capitalism

When IndiGo cancelled thousands of flights this December—stranding lakhs of passengers, destroying travel plans, and exposing India’s...

yesterday 9

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Ajit Ranade

Cheetahs On The Road To Nowhere

Cheetahs On The Road To Nowhere

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be dismayed at the trend. He marked International Cheetah Day, just a day before the first cub’s death, with...

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Fpj Editorial

An Inferno Foretold

An Inferno Foretold

There is no reason to expect that the script will be different in the fire that occurred in Goa last week, in a nightclub of a popular and fast-...

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Fpj Editorial

Undertrial Custody Crisis Is Our Loss Of Human Possibility

Undertrial Custody Crisis Is Our Loss Of Human Possibility

It reveals a reality in which the majority of those behind bars are not convicts but citizens waiting for the state to decide whether it believes...

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Srinath Sridharan

National Herald Case: Justice Delayed, Gandhis In The Dock, Verdict In Limbo

National Herald Case: Justice Delayed, Gandhis In The Dock, Verdict In Limbo

Without going into the merit of the case, the fact remains that it has been hanging over the principal opposition party like the sword of Damocles...

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Ajay Jha

Stopping Acid Attacks

Stopping Acid Attacks

Shocked at the slow pace at which the horrific crime predominantly affecting women is dealt with, a two-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice...

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Fpj Editorial

Putin Visit: A Tough Balancing Act

Putin Visit: A Tough Balancing Act

For Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s airport welcome, with a warm hug and a handshake, and the ride with the PM to his residence for a private...

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Fpj Editorial

Prices Set To Rise Further As Rupee Touches The 90 Mark

Prices Set To Rise Further As Rupee Touches The 90 Mark

Let us look at the main triggers for this sentiment, which has turned quite negative. In general, one would expect the currency to move in the...

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Madan Sabnavis

Vande Mataram: Keep Politics Out Of It

Vande Mataram: Keep Politics Out Of It

The controversy around ‘Vande Mataram’ resurfaced in 2025 as Parliament debated its history and meaning. Written by Bankim Chandra in 1875 and...

tuesday 5

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Prof. Dr Avinash Kolhe

December: The Annual Festival Of Delusional Self-Evaluation

December: The Annual Festival Of Delusional Self-Evaluation

December is the season of retrospection, conveniently forgetting that we spent 11 months expertly postponing everything that involved effort,...

tuesday 5

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Sanjeev Kotnala

Repercussions Of Russian President Vladimir Putin's India Visit: How New Delhi Walked A Diplomatic Tightrope

Repercussions Of Russian President Vladimir Putin's India Visit: How New Delhi Walked A Diplomatic Tightrope

President Putin’s summit with Prime Minister Modi was seen as a success, but both avoided discussing Russian oil exports and defense deals. While...

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Ashwin Ahmad