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As the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust battles the gravest crisis of credibility since the Ayodhya Ram temple was inaugurated, it has...
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has accused the Narendra Modi government of responding to peaceful student protests over examination paper leaks...
In December 2025, the government ensured a 10-hour special debate in the Lok Sabha on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, the extended version of...
It took weeks of sustained student protests and relentless pressure from the Opposition, both inside and outside Parliament, before Prime Minister...
While one set of students is being detained on the streets of Delhi for demanding accountability over the NEET-UG paper leak, another is being...
The controversy surrounding the NEET examination has become a symbol of a much deeper crisis within India's education system. While paper leaks...
The sudden announcement by Sheikh Hasina, living in exile in India since August 2024, that she plans to return to Bangladesh by the end of the year...
Nothing captures the mood in central Delhi on Monday, 20 July, better than this first-person account circulating on social media: “A sea of people,...
An overwhelming show of strength by Delhi Police marked Monday, 20 July when protestors had declared they would march to Parliament from Jantar...
With West Asia on the boil again after a fragile cessation of hostilities, the Gulf monarchies confront an uncomfortable truth. The old security order...
Even as the ministry of external affairs tries to make up its mind about the Indian passport, what it is and isn’t, whether it is proof of Indian...
It was indeed a wise man who said judges should shun the spotlight and let their judgments do the talking. But that was before the era of the sound...
The Supreme Court deserves appreciation for its imaginative initiative christened SAMADHAN — Supreme Court Action for Mediated Adjudication and...
A few thoughts on the Cockroach Janata Party's protest come to mind. The hunger strike by activists, including Sonam Wangchuk, had one demand:...
The demand that prompted the Youth Congress march led by Mamata Banerjee, then heading the party's state youth unit, on 21 July 1993 in what was...
India’s E20 (20 per cent ethanol-blended petrol) policy is being projected as a triumph. Achieved ahead of the original 2030 target, the...
The recent rejection of my Rajya Sabha nomination gave me food for thought. Resistance cannot be just external, I thought — it must stem from an...
The Rampur Development Authority's order directing the demolition of 38 of the 40 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University is far more than a...
The history of Indian democracy is not merely the history of elections. It is equally a history of dissent, resistance and moral intervention. Among...
Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite fast has entered its 19th day. He remains steadfast in his demand for the resignation of Union education minister...
A reported exodus of nearly 100 scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) over the past few months, first reported by the Times...
India finds itself cornered as the war in the Middle East threatens to spin out of control. Strategic analyst Trita Parsi points out that India has...
There was a time when Indian capitalism was narrated as a story of liberalisation. The 1991 reforms dismantled the old licence/permit raj and promised...
On 27 June, marked as National MSME Day, a wave of lavish tributes canonised small businesses as the ‘backbone’ of employment, industrial...
The Supreme Court’s recognition of the right to walk on safe, demarcated footpaths as a fundamental right is a landmark ruling on the safety of...
On a humid Sunday morning, just before heavy rain drowned Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray stood before his party workers and supporters, reciting the Ram...
When the lights dim in a cinema hall, audiences prepare to willingly surrender to a story. The darkness invites us to enter a realm of imagination,...
One common trait in lawless nations is high levels of anxiety against arbitrariness. Medieval texts tell us this has always been the case in our...
Census 2027 has got underway six years late and is shadowed by an unusual level of public unease. It is India’s first digital census, which the...
I am a happy man these days, or at least as happy as anyone can be in this Ram Rajya, where even 1,600 CCTVs and 400 security guards could not prevent...
Barely two-and-a-half years after it was thrown open to devotees in January 2024, the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is at the centre of a financial scandal....
For years, the Left struggled to remain politically relevant in West Bengal as the state's contest became increasingly bipolar, with the...
India’s policy towards Bangladesh remains mired in pushing back supposed illegal migrants or raising the bogey of Jamaat consolidation along the...
One of the most striking features of contemporary Indian politics is not merely the consolidation of Narendra Modi’s power and the Hindutva project,...
There are moments in history when wars change far more than borders. They alter the architecture of international politics. The Iran War may...
Not even the BJP expected its thumping victory in West Bengal. But pleasantly surprised, they scampered off to get some ministers and supporting...
T.S. Eliot dubbed April 'the cruellest month' in one of his poems. I am sure he had his reasons for doing so, but it does reveal that he was...
The teaser for Chauhaan — the latest in a line of films selling majoritarian propaganda — is out. It opens in the sort of place the Indian...
For Nitin Khadse, a five-acre farmer and social activist in the cotton district of Yavatmal, the first month of this monsoon is already a puzzle....
Dear Dr S. Jaishankar, I obtained my first passport in 1979, soon after the Passport Office in Bhopal was inaugurated by one of your predecessors,...
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...
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