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Opinion | Air India Crash: Lessons From The Ahmedabad Plane Tragedy

India is the fastest-growing civil aviation market. Air is going to be the means of travel for more and more people. Everyone involved has to have...

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Air Marshal Anil Chopra

Opinion | The Unbelievable Yet Real Success Story Of Infrastructure In Modi-Led Bharat Over 11 Years

Opinion | The Unbelievable Yet Real Success Story Of Infrastructure In Modi-Led Bharat Over 11 Years

Under PM Modi, India has witnessed wide-ranging development in infrastructure focusing on connectivity, logistics, digitalization, energy, self-...

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Dr Vinusha Reddy

Opinion | India’s Agniveer Advantage: Building A National Defence Reserve For A Long War

Critics have viewed Agnipath through a narrow financial and personnel lens. Operation Sindoor forces us to look beyond that

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Global Watch | Imran Khan Vs Military: How Democracy Has Become A Bedtime Story In Pakistan

Pakistan’s economy is faltering, its diplomatic standing is diminishing, and its society is becoming ever more divided

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Can Nightmares About The Dreamliner Be Warded Off?

Whether the blame is put on the aircraft or its pilots, flyers will need to firmer reassurances about the safety of their carriers after the crash...

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Reshmi Dasgupta

India Eyes Russian Su-57 Over American F-35: Final Choice Will Be Strategic, Not Just Tactical

If India does go for a stop-gap foreign fighter, it must not forget the ultimate priority – AMCA. The skies may be contested, but sovereignty...

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Shubhangi Sharma

Book Review | The 'Joy Bangla' Deception: Don't Judge By The Cover, 'Study' It

Book Review | The 'Joy Bangla' Deception: Don't Judge By The Cover, 'Study' It

The ‘Joy Bangla’ Deception is divided into four clearly defined sections, with a logically progressive narrative that unfolds before you,...

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Ratan Sharda

Opinion | The Tragic Mumbai Suburban Rail Accident Was Waiting to Happen

Opinion | The Tragic Mumbai Suburban Rail Accident Was Waiting to Happen

Much of the rail infrastructure is outdated, having been built over a century ago with little regard for even incremental upgrades

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Operation Sindoor And After: India Must Prepare For A Two-Front War

Opinion | Operation Sindoor And After: India Must Prepare For A Two-Front War

India should prepare for war not because it is imminent, but because peace must always be secured from a position of strength

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Pavan K Varma

Opinion | How India Can Navigate The New World Order In Trump 2.0

India believes in multipolarity as only in a multipolar system can India play its due role

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Kanwal Sibal

Modi’s Cool Move: Why The New AC Temperature Guideline Is Smarter & Greener | Opinion

Under Modi’s leadership, there has been a strong commitment to transitioning towards a sustainable and green energy future.

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Modi's Effective Amalgamation Of Right Ideology, Welfare

Under Modi, the BJP has effectively combined right-wing cultural nationalism with left-of-centre economic populism.

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Sidharth Mishra

A Dreamliner’s Descent: Unpacking The Catastrophe Of Air India Flight 171

A Dreamliner’s Descent: Unpacking The Catastrophe Of Air India Flight 171

Air India Flight 171’s haywire climb and lethal crash will leave scars—on families, communities, and aviation history.

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Group Capt Mj Augustine Vinod Vsm

Straight Talk | Data Doesn’t Lie: India’s Poverty Decline Stuns The World

Straight Talk | Data Doesn’t Lie: India’s Poverty Decline Stuns The World

India is helping its people shift from dependency to dignity. Apart from being a social victory, this is a profound economic catalyst as well

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | PM Modi’s Five Pledges Fulfil Deendayal’s Five Suggestions

Opinion | PM Modi’s Five Pledges Fulfil Deendayal’s Five Suggestions

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most enduring achievements of the last 11 years is his emergence as Deendayal Upadhyaya’s true philosophical...

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Anirban Ganguly

Opinion | Indian Entrepreneurship In Times of War

Opinion | Indian Entrepreneurship In Times of War

A war needs warriors. Will the MSMEs of today’s Bharat rise to the occasion?

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Gautam R Desiraju

Opinion | Disbanding Awami League Could Lead To Identity Crisis For Bangladesh

Opinion | Disbanding Awami League Could Lead To Identity Crisis For Bangladesh

Awami League led a long political struggle for Bangladesh’s emancipation. By rejecting this legacy, Bangladesh might end up shooting itself in the...

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Priyadarshi Dutta

Opinion | Pakistan’s Political Awakening Demands A New US Approach

Opinion | Pakistan’s Political Awakening Demands A New US Approach

Supporting an unpopular or authoritarian regime risks alienating a nation of 240 million, where the majority are young and increasingly demand change

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Salman Ahmad

Opinion | Operation Sindoor: India’s Opposition Should Not Undermine Government

India’s opposition parties are wrong in asking the government to reveal the losses in the recent conflict with Pakistan and are playing into the...

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Kanwal Sibal

Opinion | Loss Angeles! How A Crazed Wokeism Connects America And India

Opinion | Loss Angeles! How A Crazed Wokeism Connects America And India

From Delhi to DC, the Left now views illegal immigration as a moral cudgel to beat down ideological opponents and snatch political turf

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Rahul Shivshankar

Right Word | China Index: Dragon’s Global Influence Matrix Mapped And Exposed

Right Word | China Index: Dragon’s Global Influence Matrix Mapped And Exposed

In this age of increasing export of China’s data-driven authoritarianism, a data-based documentation of its methods is not only revelatory but a...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Russia-India On Shaky Grounds? Why India Needs To Become Truly Independent

Opinion | Russia-India On Shaky Grounds? Why India Needs To Become Truly Independent

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, twice in a matter of weeks, has indicated that Russia is interested in reviving the RIC...

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Drones As Weapons Of Warfare: How Operation Sindoor Marks A Critical Turning Point

Operation Sindoor demonstrates how drones can be employed within the bounds of international law as instruments of national defence under Article...

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Abhinav Mehrotra

Opinion: Time Now To Make Railway Stations Of Bharat Future-Ready

To make stations truly future-ready, the current modernisation plan must be reimagined, including the substantial construction of new, modern and...

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Akhileshwar Sahay