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India’s cattle economy is marred by a profound contradiction. The regime that invokes the cow as a sacred symbol and fails to curb vigilante attacks...
It was around 2.00 pm on 27 May 1964. Suddenly, telephones in government offices across Delhi began ringing frantically. Employees at All India Radio...
When Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing days after Donald Trump had left, Xi Jinping did not merely host another summit. He staged a geopolitical...
A falling rupee is usually treated as a macroeconomic problem. It raises the cost of imports, worsens inflationary pressures, unsettles investors and...
Prominent Muslim voices have asked the prime minister to declare the cow a national animal and therefore ban its slaughter across India. The head of...
The IAS, unlike its progenitor the ICS, will bequeath few memories other than those of Chief Secretaries being voted the most corrupt by their own...
Speaking to members of the Indian diaspora at The Hague in mid-May, Prime Minister Modi said the war in West Asia can overturn the gains of the Indian...
At a press conference she held at her Kalighat residence immediately after the West Bengal assembly election results were announced on May 4, former...
Under the newly introduced OSM system, answer books are digitally scanned and evaluated online — which the board had claimed would eliminate...
The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 draws a sharp line between private (white-board) and transport (yellow-board) vehicles. A private car used “for hire or...
Even as US secretary of state Marco Rubio’s aircraft headed for Kolkata, his colleagues at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new...
Assume for a moment that I am a big and strong fellow who lifts heavy weights easily and is flexible and fit. If someone approached me to comment on...
In the run-up to West Bengal election, the BJP’s central think tank probably thought projecting a bold and muscular image would help it win the...
Wars are not won only by those who drop bombs and kill people. They are won by those who achieve their political objectives while denying the enemy....
The recent death of 24-year-old Deepika Nagar in Greater Noida has forced the country to confront a brutal truth: crimes against women continue to...
Hon'ble Chief Justice, May I, a humble member of the Blatta (Oriental) genus of cockroaches, make so bold as to express my utter stupefaction at...
Donald Trump would have hoped for better when he visited Beijing on 13-15 May, but the trip, instead of becoming a feather in his deal-making cap,...
Walk into any major Indian airport and observe carefully. The CISF personnel who once staffed security and screening posts have been quietly replaced...
On Friday, 15 May, a two-judge bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court pronounced a 700-year-old mosque in Dhar, near Indore, to be a temple of the...
In January this year, the Supreme Court refused bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. In May, it granted bail to Syed Iftikhar Andrabi. Both men are...
In a historic first, two of India’s most prestigious minority institutions — St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and St Xavier’s College, Mumbai —...
The verdict by the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 15 May declaring Dhar’s Kamal Maula mosque complex as the Bhojshala Saraswati...
Following the ordinance promulgated by the President of India, the Supreme Court of India now has a sanctioned strength of 38 judges including the...
When Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah declined to receive India’s foreign secretary Vikram Misri last week, citing his now-celebrated ‘equal...
The other day, I was invited to dinner at the home of a dear acquaintance in Delhi. Alongside an assortment of Marwari dishes on the table sat a bowl...
A year after Operation Sindoor, the Modi government still brandishes it as a signal that terrorism traced to Pakistan will be punished. It would have...
Rules cannot be bent for anyone,” declared Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Sanjay Singh on 11 May, dismissing Olympian Vinesh...
"Nowadays for a homeless person to fulfil the requirement of a place of residence, ‘The BLO [Booth Level Officer] will visit the address given...
Bhagwant Mann thought it would be a masterstroke. On Baisakhi, 13 April, the Punjab chief minister convened a special session of the Vidhan Sabha,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal, with the eleven specific requests spanning fuel, gold, fertillisers, cooking oil, solar pumps and...
With the assembly elections to five states done and dusted, and Assam and West Bengal in the bag for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided it...
The cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 held on 3 May by the National Testing Agency (NTA) is not an anomaly. It is the predictable outcome of years of...
It was reported by Satya Hindi news channel, and reiterated by a Congress spokesperson, that after the declaration of the West Bengal Assembly...
There was a time when Kerala’s political class feared uttering the words “lottery mafia” too loudly. The network was believed to be too wealthy,...
Within a week of taking over West Bengal’s administration, the new BJP government has unleashed a spate of high-profile arrests. On 11 May, the...
A year after Operation Sindoor, the Narendra Modi government of India still describes it as proof of a new doctrine, a signal that terrorism traced to...
This month, I was in Odisha as part of a people’s tribunal examining atrocities against Christians, in particular Adivasis. My fellow tribunal...
Since the time US President Donald Trump contemplated a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his proposed visit to Beijing on 14-15 May —...
The UAE’s decision to walk out of OPEC and OPEC is not just about oil. It represents a blunt geopolitical rupture. Abu Dhabi is no longer...
There’s a new hotspot in South Asia’s geopolitics. Located at an altitude of 17,000 feet, Lipulekh Pass is a narrow gap in the ridge line of...
Less than a week after Sandeep Pathak — a Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab — defected from the Aam Aadmi Party to join the BJP, a Punjab Police team...
As a child, mornings always carried more than the promise of a new day. They meant newspapers, discussions on politics, strains of Rabindra Sangeet...
The elevation of Suvendu Adhikari as the first Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Minister of West Bengal marks one of the most dramatic political...
The verdict in Kerala on 4 May was not just a vote for change. Nor merely an expression of anti-incumbency as many commentators had you think. It was...
Since these are tricky times, let us begin this week with a trick question: what do the following events have in common with each other? The huge, and...
Think one day at a time. This was the strategy of farmers to stay afloat in Takwiki village, in Maharashtra’s drought-prone Dharashiv district in...
Tamil Nadu has delivered a verdict that resists easy interpretation. At the centre of the churn is Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, whose emergence has not...
If the BJP’s triumph in the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections is remembered as a turning point in the history of the state, it won’t be simply...
Today, 7 May marks the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor, the high-stakes military intervention that redefined the India–Pakistan security...
The Opposition parties in India are either naive or we must conclude that they may not be really sincere when they shout about ‘vote chori’. If...
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