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When officials of the ministry of external affairs (MEA) recently clarified that an Indian passport is ‘primarily a travel document’ and not...
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra occupies a unique place in India’s public life. Constituted by the Union government on 5 February 2020,...
On 19 June, Nripendra Mishra dropped a bombshell. In one of several interviews aired by TV channels on the day, Mishra, a member of the board of...
In Byrnihat, the industrial town on the Assam-Meghalaya border that has repeatedly figured among the world's most polluted places, the Meghalaya...
The last international innings of Ben Stokes as a batter was not a memorable one. Opening the innings in a tricky chase against New Zealand on Sunday,...
The church has strongly protested the latest FCRA tweaks, seeing them as a backdoor attempt to seize control of properties built over decades with...
Seven prime ministers in a decade, as the UK is about to witness, is quite a testimony to political instability. Britain is wrestling with itself and...
As Israel approaches what could be the most consequential election in its 78-year history, a question once unthinkable is now being openly discussed...
India’s digital revolution is often portrayed as clean, futuristic and almost weightless. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital...
What cannot be passed in Parliament as law can be brought into effect through changes in the rules. The effect on the ground is often the same and the...
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) released its new Social Science textbook, Understanding Society, India and Beyond:...
Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran has done a great service articulating something many parents, students and policymakers do not want to...
Barely two months after assuming office, the BJP government in West Bengal is preparing to introduce two of its most consequential pieces of...
The belated decision to register FIRs against eight employees and a retired banker for alleged embezzlement of funds from the Shree Ram Janmabhoomi...
Today, the 10th of Muharram (Ashura), the global collective conscience reaches the shattering climax of Karbala. On this day in 680 CE, Imam Hussain...
The phrase has become strangely familiar. For years, Indian and American officials have repeatedly declared that a bilateral trade agreement is...
In the heart of Kolkata, where Park Circus meets the city's daily bustle, a 500-metre stretch once known as Suhrawardy Avenue now bears the name...
A building falls in Said-ul-Ajaib. A bed-and-breakfast catches fire in Hauz Rani. In public memory, both incidents may remain attached to larger...
Dear Mr Narendra Modi, After I reached this place on 27 May 1964, I have generally kept away from writing letters. But old habits die hard. My...
Last week, on 17 June, it was reported that the 'US has renamed the Indo-Pacific Command back to the Pacific Command'. This news was...
Biodiversity is perhaps the most unacknowledged component of the natural environment, and the attention of policy-makers rarely goes beyond trees and...
Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge has decided to take the RSS bull by the horns. In a letter to Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat dated 13 June 2026, he...
Donald Trump was desperate to end the Iran war, and for good reason too. The ‘memorandum of understanding’ signed by the US and Iran is being...
As more than 22 lakh aspiring medical professionals prepare to reappear for the NEET-UG re-examination on Sunday, 21 June, authorities have rolled out...
What explains the efforts of a well-heeled section of elite ‘Muslim intellectuals’ to legitimise the extra-constitutional Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
Imagine taking a four-hour international flight into a hostile country only a day before an important FIFA World Cup game — because of rigid visa...
When Sanjay Raut, the Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and spokesperson, posted on social media this week that he had information Maharashtra MPs would be receiving...
When a 4,500-year-old bronze figurine becomes the target of contemporary moral anxiety, the real casualty is not art—it is historical honesty.The...
The latest Sample Registration System data should worry every policymaker. In 2024, nearly half of all recorded deaths in India occurred without...
Five years ago, I wrote a piece debunking the myth of ‘Hinduphobia’. This was the time that several Hindutva organisations in North America and...
The guns have fallen silent in Gadchiroli with the end of Maoism. But a new battle is emerging over forests, land and the future of India’s minerals...
New India has come upon us at such a rapid pace that it is important to step back occasionally and assess where we have arrived. On August 28 last...
It was effective 2018, four years into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term in office, that Sweden’s V-Dem Institute marked India’s descent...
A lady filed a complaint of inappropriate behaviour against a Congress worker in 2022 in Telangana. Three years later, the Congress made Meenakshi...
Celebrating his party’s victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared,...
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s challenge to the rejection of her Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya...
The disqualification of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh has evolved from a procedural dispute...
The composition of West Bengal's first BJP government has brought into sharp focus the three distinct power centres that shape the party's...
Ramnganing alias Ram Muivah, a Tangkhul Naga, served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) for over 35 years, retiring as secretary Northeast...
Kerala’s launch of ‘Operation Toofan: The Narco Hunt’ on 1 June acknowledges that the state’s narcotics challenge is no longer a peripheral...
Today, 10 June, Narendra Modi became the prime minister to govern for the longest period in independent India, surpassing the tenure of Jawaharlal...
When co-hosts Mexico and South Africa set the ball rolling for the ‘biggest’ World Cup a little after midnight (IST) at the historic Azteca...
For much of the past year, India and Bangladesh have been attempting to repair a relationship shaken by one of the most consequential political...
On 15 November 1947, Mahatma Gandhi referred to allegations by the Hindu Mahasabha that Congress had surrendered its soul to Muslims, Gandhi was a...
As US and Israeli bombs and missiles rained on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, the justification they offered was both familiar and revealing:...
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading London-based think-tank on military affairs, in its Asia-Pacific Regional Security...
'Be very careful! The Census operation has begun. The enumerators may insist that you mention your religion as Hindu. Never do that. Mention...
Friend Ram Madhav has written a fine piece on Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaching an important milestone. On 10 June, he writes, Modi completes...
Delhi's chatterati, who always need something more than just fried peanuts with their gin and tonic, are abuzz these days with the latest...
The results of the Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have reinforced the myth of the BJP’s invincibility...
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