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Are Sharad Pawar & Uddhav Thackeray Unsure About Their Policy On Waqf Law Changes?

Are Sharad Pawar & Uddhav Thackeray Unsure About Their Policy On Waqf Law Changes?

With his "ear to the ground approach", Sharad Pawar perhaps feels that the BJP's Hindutva-centric politics are currently getting ground support...

yesterday 10

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Rohit Chandavarkar

WAVES: India's Bid To Reshape Global Entertainment Landscape

WAVES: India's Bid To Reshape Global Entertainment Landscape

In a world hungry for authentic stories and innovative entertainment, India is set to revolutionise the global media landscape. The World Audio...

yesterday 10

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Chaitanya K Prasad

TMC's Unity Unravels At Perilous Moment As WhatsApp Chat Involving Kalyan Banerjee & Kirti Azad Lays Bare Deep Divisions

TMC's Unity Unravels At Perilous Moment As WhatsApp Chat Involving Kalyan Banerjee & Kirti Azad Lays Bare Deep Divisions

The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), West Bengal’s ruling party, is unraveling at a perilous moment. A recent public spat among its MPs—Kalyan...

yesterday 10

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Sayantan Ghosh

When Uncle Sam Raises The Drawbridge: India Must Stop Waving From The Moat

When Uncle Sam Raises The Drawbridge: India Must Stop Waving From The Moat

In a world turning transactional, India must trade consolation for calibration.

yesterday 10

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Srinath Sridharan

Fueling Inequality: Modi Govt’s LPG Hike Amid Falling Global Oil Prices Betrays The Poor

Fueling Inequality: Modi Govt’s LPG Hike Amid Falling Global Oil Prices Betrays The Poor

The irony could not be starker. Even as the global price of crude oil has plunged to a recent low of $62 per barrel, down from $78 just six months...

yesterday 10

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Fpj Web Desk

Supreme Court Slams UP: CJI Sanjiv Khanna Flags Law And Order Breakdown, Police Misuse In Civil Disputes

Supreme Court Slams UP: CJI Sanjiv Khanna Flags Law And Order Breakdown, Police Misuse In Civil Disputes

In a scathing indictment of Uttar Pradesh’s governance, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna has pulled up the state for what he termed a “complete...

yesterday 10

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Fpj Web Desk

All India Trinamool Congress Torn Apart: English, Egos, & Explosions Ensue

All India Trinamool Congress Torn Apart: English, Egos, & Explosions Ensue

It all began—where else—but on WhatsApp, the new war room for India’s political elite. Somewhere between discussing election strategy and...

yesterday 10

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Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Guiding Light: How Sri Krishna’s Leelas Inspire Faith, Surrender And Divine Intervention

Guiding Light: How Sri Krishna’s Leelas Inspire Faith, Surrender And Divine Intervention

Leelas were continually occurring during Krishnavatar. Srimad Bhagavatam lists numerous instances of leela performed by the Lord. Even before the...

yesterday 10

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Dr. S. Ainavolu

FPJ Analysis: Pushback Against Trump Policies

FPJ Analysis: Pushback Against Trump Policies

Americans are now pushing back against the policies of Donald Trump, who has, in a little over two months since his inauguration as US president,...

previous day 20

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Fpj Editorial

FPJ Analysis: Rejig In CPM, Revival The Goal

FPJ Analysis: Rejig In CPM, Revival The Goal

An 84-member Central Committee was also named, inducting 30 new faces. Baby is only the second leader from Kerala after EMS Namboodiripad to head...

previous day 10

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Fpj Editorial

Indian Stock Market Bloodbath: ₹14 Lakh Crore Wiped Off Dalal Street Following Donald Trump's Sweeping Tariffs

Indian Stock Market Bloodbath: ₹14 Lakh Crore Wiped Off Dalal Street Following Donald Trump's Sweeping Tariffs

The Indian stock markets witnessed a brutal selloff on Monday, wiping out Rs 14 lakh crore worth of Dalal Street in a single trading session as the...

previous day 2

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Srinath Sridharan

The Trump Tariffs In Perspective: A Futurist’s View On Trade, Power And The Coming World Order

The Trump Tariffs In Perspective: A Futurist’s View On Trade, Power And The Coming World Order

The long arc of global economic history has often pivoted on the fulcrum of trade—its expansion or constraint and the ideologies that underpin it....

previous day 20

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Shailesh Haribhakti

Not The Startups, Mr Goyal. It’s The Education System That’s Failing Us, Writes Ankieta Kothari

Not The Startups, Mr Goyal. It’s The Education System That’s Failing Us, Writes Ankieta Kothari

India’s education system, even after the introduction of NEP 2020, remains entrenched in rote learning. Students are trained to crack exams - not...

previous day 20

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Ankieta Kothari

FPJ Analysis: IIT Delhi Reforms Critical

FPJ Analysis: IIT Delhi Reforms Critical

The most important trigger for the institution of the 12-member committee, headed by Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi, a senior psychiatrist from the...

tuesday 1

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Fpj Editorial

Cash Found At HC Judge's Home: We Must Protect The Judiciary From Itself

Cash Found At HC Judge's Home: We Must Protect The Judiciary From Itself

Over the years, there has been a widespread perception that all institutions of state are failing the people. In the early years of independence,...

tuesday 2

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Dr Jayaprakash Narayan

India's First Vertical Sea Bridge, New Pamban Bridge, Rises, But Unity Stalls Amid Language & Politics

India's First Vertical Sea Bridge, New Pamban Bridge, Rises, But Unity Stalls Amid Language & Politics

It should have been a moment of unalloyed pride. On Ram Navami, PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Pamban Sea Bridge—India’s first vertical lift...

tuesday 10

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N Chithra

Brand Banter: Bigger Isn’t Always Better, Sometimes It’s Just Louder

Brand Banter: Bigger Isn’t Always Better, Sometimes It’s Just Louder

Attendance figures, social media followers, box office earnings, and world records steal the limelight. The bigger the number, the bigger and...

tuesday 1

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Sanjeev Kotnala

FPJ Analysis: India And Sri Lanka Deepen Ties

Modi’s visit was also the first by a foreign leader to Sri Lanka since Dissanayake unexpectedly led his leftist National People’s Power to victory...

tuesday 1

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Fpj Editorial

Rethinking Europe's Role In Ukraine War

Rethinking Europe's Role In Ukraine War

As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the global conversation has shifted from how it began to why it continues. With thousands of lives...

07.04.2025 10

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Dr Ajeenkya D Y Patil

Waqf Bill Will Disenfranchise Muslim Community Further

Waqf Bill Will Disenfranchise Muslim Community Further

From the start, BJP have pursued an anti-minority divisive politics, and this has paid them electoral dividends. Ratcheting up the Waqf Amendment...

06.04.2025 5

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Rashme Sehgal

Mumbai: A Malnourished Mayanagri With Over 16,000 Children Affected

Mumbai: A Malnourished Mayanagri With Over 16,000 Children Affected

For years, the spectre of malnutrition among children up to six years of age, which is a determinant of their physical and mental growth, was seen...

06.04.2025 4

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Fpj Editorial

India Must Urgently Devise A Counter Strategy As Trump's Record-High Tariffs Threaten ₹1,27,000 Crore In Export Losses

India, branded the “Tariff King” during Trump’s earlier campaign, finds itself facing a 26% tariff—steeper than Japan (24%) and South Korea (25%),...

06.04.2025 5

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Ks Tomar

The Irrelevance Of Teaching Sanskrit At School Level

The Irrelevance Of Teaching Sanskrit At School Level

While acknowledging the language’s historical and cultural significance, the author questioned its mandatory status in many schools. “Hours and...

06.04.2025 2

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Sumit Paul

Manoj Kumar: The Reel Patriot Is Gone

Manoj Kumar: The Reel Patriot Is Gone

There was a point when one did feel that only Manoj Kumar knew what the problems in India were all about and only he held the solutions to them....

06.04.2025 2

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S Ramachandran

FPJ Analysis: Technocratic, Not Democratic, America

FPJ Analysis: Technocratic, Not Democratic, America

The global economic transformation will unfold as time passes, more rapidly now than back then, but there is no doubt that the economic changes...

06.04.2025 3

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Fpj Editorial

Ice Cream Or Innovation? Union Minister Piyush Goyal Sparks Debate Over India's Startup Priorities

Ice Cream Or Innovation? Union Minister Piyush Goyal Sparks Debate Over India's Startup Priorities

Mumbai: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal lobbed a rhetorical grenade at India’s startup ecosystem on Thursday, questioning whether the...

06.04.2025 20

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Ketan Narottam Tanna