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Opinion | Supreme Verdict: Why Abuse Of Scheduled Caste Benefits By Converts Must Be Curbed

Opinion | Supreme Verdict: Why Abuse Of Scheduled Caste Benefits By Converts Must Be Curbed

By clarifying that conversion ends SC eligibility and setting a three-part test for reconversion, the SC has drawn a clear line against misuse of...

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Vivek Gumaste

Opinion | Double-Engine Drive: Powering Assam As India’s Growth Hub And Southeast Asia Gateway

Opinion | Double-Engine Drive: Powering Assam As India’s Growth Hub And Southeast Asia Gateway

With continued focus on connectivity, investment and inclusion, the state is poised to lead the Northeast into a new era of prosperity

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Not A Victim, But An Enemy Of Her Own People: The Truth About Asiya Andrabi

Opinion | Not A Victim, But An Enemy Of Her Own People: The Truth About Asiya Andrabi

Feeling for the people of Kashmir and supporting Asiya Andrabi are two contradictory positions and cannot logically coexist

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Omer Ghazi

Opinion | Dhurandhar Duology: How Bollywood Cracked The Rs 1,000-Crore Code

Opinion | Dhurandhar Duology: How Bollywood Cracked The Rs 1,000-Crore Code

Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge has reportedly grossed an estimated Rs 1,523 crore worldwide and, hence, surpassed the box-office performance of its...

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Biswadeep Ghosh

Opinion | From Drones To Deepfakes: How Technology Shapes The Iran War

Opinion | From Drones To Deepfakes: How Technology Shapes The Iran War

With reliance on airpower, missiles, and drones, the war indicates a shift from contact warfare to non-contact warfare. It also highlights the...

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Harsha Kakar

Opinion | Policy Meets Reality: NEP 2020 And India’s School Infrastructure Crisis

Opinion | Policy Meets Reality: NEP 2020 And India’s School Infrastructure Crisis

NEP 2020 sets the right direction. But without addressing the conditions in which learning actually takes place, its promise will remain out of reach

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Vaishali Sharma

Opinion | As Iran War Enters Second Month, No Endgame In Sight

Opinion | As Iran War Enters Second Month, No Endgame In Sight

At the end of the fourth week, Iran seems to be in a stronger position in the war and is daring the US to commence a ground offensive

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Lt Gen I S Singha

Opinion | 1971 Revisited: ‘Dhurandhar 2’ And The Genocide The World Chose To Ignore

Opinion | 1971 Revisited: ‘Dhurandhar 2’ And The Genocide The World Chose To Ignore

Brigadier Jahangir in ‘Dhurandhar 2’, in his own despicable way, reveals what many did not know about the awful prelude to the 1971 war...

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | BJP’s Quiet Tactical Shifts For 2026 Bengal Polls

Opinion | BJP’s Quiet Tactical Shifts For 2026 Bengal Polls

The BJP’s recalibration aims to convert anti-incumbency against local TMC functionaries into tangible gains without triggering cultural backlash

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Sayantan Ghosh

Opinion | INS Aridaman: India’s Nuclear Deterrence Comes Of Age

Opinion | INS Aridaman: India’s Nuclear Deterrence Comes Of Age

No foreign blueprints. No borrowed reactor. No licensed hull. India built its third nuclear-powered submarine from scratch.

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Rahul Pawa

Opinion | Why India’s Discretion Trumps Grandstanding In West Asia

Opinion | Why India’s Discretion Trumps Grandstanding In West Asia

There is wisdom in eschewing heroics for discretion in an escalating war theatre. Indian foreign policy has come a long way from effete non-alignment...

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Sandip Ghose

Opinion | From Article 370 To Naxalism: Four Feathers In Amit Shah’s Cap, And Counting

Opinion | From Article 370 To Naxalism: Four Feathers In Amit Shah’s Cap, And Counting

From Article 370 to Waqf reforms and the push against Naxalism, a look at the key milestones that have defined Amit Shah’s tenure as Home Minister.

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S Murlidharan

Right Word | In An Age Of Doomsday Narratives, Vatsalya Gram Offers A Story Of Hope

Right Word | In An Age Of Doomsday Narratives, Vatsalya Gram Offers A Story Of Hope

Sadhvi Ritambhara, known more as a firebrand leader and one of the leading lights of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has created a unique Bharatiya...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Conflict And Capital: The Hidden Cost Of The Iran War

Opinion | Conflict And Capital: The Hidden Cost Of The Iran War

Beneath the rhetoric of righteousness, the ongoing war in West Asia reveals a stark reality of power, profit and profound human cost.

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Pavan K Varma

Opinion | Jewar Airport Puts Noida’s Economic Explosion Well Beyond Scale Of Gurugram’s Success

Opinion | Jewar Airport Puts Noida’s Economic Explosion Well Beyond Scale Of Gurugram’s Success

It is not just a means to create another Gurugram; it is the engine of a much larger and well-planned economic ecosystem which will push Noida’s,...

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Abhijit Majumder

The 'Village Girl' Who Knew Too Much: Who Is @LifeOfPujaa And Why The Internet Is Terrified Of Her

The 'Village Girl' Who Knew Too Much: Who Is @LifeOfPujaa And Why The Internet Is Terrified Of Her

As rumors of "hidden agencies" and "manufactured virality" swirl, we look at why the internet is so desperate to tear down a woman in a saree

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Mallika Bhagat

Opinion | When Victory Defeats You: Lessons From The Epics About The Cost Of War

Opinion | When Victory Defeats You: Lessons From The Epics About The Cost Of War

There can never be an ethical justification for the violence and misery inflicted by war

31.03.2026 10

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Selective Outrage: When The West Applauds Its Myths But Judges India’s

Opinion | Selective Outrage: When The West Applauds Its Myths But Judges India’s

Why suggest that when Western filmmakers rewrote the narrative on Vietnam it was catharsis but when Indian filmmakers take a leaf out of the same...

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | The Unsung Patriots Of Kashmir: A Story of Sacrifice, Success & Subsequent Betrayal

Opinion | The Unsung Patriots Of Kashmir: A Story of Sacrifice, Success & Subsequent Betrayal

The Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen exemplified the spirit of Kashmiris who chose India over terror.

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | End Of Naxalism: How Amit Shah Dismantled China’s Ideological Export

Opinion | End Of Naxalism: How Amit Shah Dismantled China’s Ideological Export

What India has accomplished is not simply the suppression of a domestic insurgency. It is the refutation of a model

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | 'Inside The Manosphere' Exposes Online Empire Of Misogyny, But Dodges The Causes

Opinion | 'Inside The Manosphere' Exposes Online Empire Of Misogyny, But Dodges The Causes

Louis Theroux's 'Inside The Manosphere' probes "red-pill" influencers, their misogyny, trauma and political impact, but ignores cancel culture and...

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Abhijit Majumder

Akhil Vaani | Jewar: From A Wheat Field In UP To One Of Asia's Most Ambitious Airport Projects

Akhil Vaani | Jewar: From A Wheat Field In UP To One Of Asia's Most Ambitious Airport Projects

Jewar is no ordinary infrastructure addition. It is India's largest greenfield airport project, 100 per cent funded by Foreign Direct Investment.

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | How The Maharashtra Anti-Conversion Law Takes Long-Term View Of Demography

Opinion | How The Maharashtra Anti-Conversion Law Takes Long-Term View Of Demography

This is one legislation that has been carefully thought out. Its provisions seem watertight. Perhaps that explains why it took a fair bit of time to...

29.03.2026 10

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Abhijit Majumder

Six Runways, Two Airports, One City: Can Delhi-NCR Make It Work?

Six Runways, Two Airports, One City: Can Delhi-NCR Make It Work?

Whether Delhi-NCR becomes a dual-hub market or a city with competing airports will depend on connectivity, demand and sustained policy support.

28.03.2026 10

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Sohil Sinha

Urban Quest | A Steep Climb Ahead For Chennai’s Developed City Dream

Urban Quest | A Steep Climb Ahead For Chennai’s Developed City Dream

While Chennai has the real opportunity to become a developed city by 2047, the challenges facing the city are enormous and need immediate fixes...

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Capability Versus Causality: The Great US-Israel Miscalculation On Iran

Opinion | Capability Versus Causality: The Great US-Israel Miscalculation On Iran

The US-Israel alliance may succeed in retarding Iran’s nuclear programme. But it is far harder to extinguish the motivations that sustain it

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Rahul Shivshankar

India's Grey Counter: How New Delhi Is Fighting China's Invisible War In The Indian Ocean

India's Grey Counter: How New Delhi Is Fighting China's Invisible War In The Indian Ocean

Data shows Chinese vessel conducting repeated survey missions between 2024 and 2025 across strategic waters near Taiwan, Guam, and, critically,...

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Manthan Of Aastha & Service: A Thought-Provoking Espionage Saga

Opinion | Manthan Of Aastha & Service: A Thought-Provoking Espionage Saga

The Game-Changer Monk is not merely a tale of external conflict, it is a meditation on transformation

26.03.2026 10

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Ayushman Jamwal

Opinion | This Is Not India’s War To Mediate

While there is a compelling case to be made for India inserting itself in a manner commensurate with its regional stature, this isn’t that conflict....

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Rahul Shivshankar

Straight Talk | Iran's Fierce Stand: Decapitation Turning Into Nightmare For US?

Decapitation works against brittle regimes with no contingency plans. Iran prepared for this moment through decades of sanctions and isolation.

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | Asiya Andrabi Sentencing: Not Just A Verdict, A Reckoning For Separatist Terror

The sentencing asserts that India won't permit organised campaigns of separatist hatred, terror glorification & anti-national incitement to pass as...

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Manoj Gupta

Opinion | For Modi, Pakistan Is A Problem Best Weakened, Not Broken

Pakistan is under pressure from three directions: western frontier, its south-western province, and its own balance sheet. New Delhi should resist the...

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | 26/11 To UP Mafia: How Dhurandhar Rewinds Dark Chapters Of UPA Era

The films portray the UPA era, especially 2004–2014, as a time of national vulnerability, weak governance, intelligence failures, and unchecked...

25.03.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Netanyahu Rumours: Why AI's Ability To Make Us Doubt Reality Is A Bigger Problem

A section of social media users claimed that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was dead. And then, the AI games began.

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Prajesh Panikkar