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Listen to this article: New Delhi: Opposition members staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha on Monday (March 30) after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP...
Listen to this article: Top leaders of Iran were assassinated in 1951 and 75 years later in 2026 several key functionaries occupying high positions in...
Listen to this article: The crisis over the implementation of the July Charter came to a head in Bangladesh’s parliament on Sunday (March 29), when...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Mining baron Anil Agarwal has said in a post on social media that Vedanta had received written confirmation that it...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: What explains the Indian rupees woes? As it routinely closes at “historic lows”, most recently at 94.85 to the...
Listen to this article: The opening day of the United States (US)-Israel invasion of Iran was marked by the horror of tomahawk missiles targeting the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has raised concerns over the transfer of technologies in the space sector to the private...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: In a fresh spate of takedowns, at least three Facebook pages – of news platforms Molitics and National Dastak,...
Listen to this article: The WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), held in Yaoundé, Cameroon from March 26–29, ended without agreement on key...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Conservationists and retired forest officials have written to the Assam government urging them to withdraw their...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: In yet another blow to government-funded scholarships and schemes for marginalised communities, the number of...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Freedom House’s 2026 edition of Freedom in the World report, “The Growing Shadow of Autocracy,” presents a...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On March 19, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R. Mahadevan upheld the conviction of two...
Listen to this article: It is day 31 of the Iran war triggered by the US-Israeli attacks on the country. In retaliation, Iran continues to strike Gulf...
Listen to this article: Today, March 30, is Francisco Goya’s birth anniversary. Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808 put Francisco Goya in a bind....
Listen to this article: Pakistan’s emergence as a diplomatic interlocutor in the enduring ‘engagement’ between the United States and Iran, has...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Pakistan announced on March 29 that it would soon host talks between the US and Iran. “Pakistan is very happy...
Listen to this article: As climate stress intensifies across Asia’s river basins, water security is emerging as an area where strategic rivals such...
Ambedkarvad ki Roshni Mein RSS ka Dwij Rashtravaad by Bhanwar Meghwanshi is published at a time when Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is arguably India’s most...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: Three army soldiers were reportedly injured, one of them critically, after a soldier opened fire in a barrack with...
Listen to this article: Something is different about this Tamil Nadu election, and it is not any single party. It is the terrain, fractured in ways...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A local journalist based in Rajkot, Gujarat, Sudesh Vadecha, has alleged that he was subjected to severe torture...
Listen to this article: It started with a small argument at home. My father-in-law said we had to visit our ancestral village and perform a puja. It...
Listen to this article: Harsh Mander, who describes himself rather humbly as “a peace and justice worker” despite the breadth of his social...
Listen to this article: Photographic artist Asha Thadani discusses her thought process behind her solo exhibition ‘I to Eye: Shades of Humanity’...
Listen to this article: Six years after a petition was filed, Gujarat remains the only state in India whose legislative assembly does not livestream...
Listen to this article: In late March 2026, two Indian courts delivered sharply contrasting signals on corporate fraud. On March 23, a three-judge...
Listen to this article: Trade ministers gathering in Cameroon for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference would take a decision...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Israel killed three journalists who were covering the country’s invasion of Lebanon with an airstrike on the...
Listen to this article: It seems that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing for delimitation without the 2027 Census results, on the...
At one point, in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Project Hail Mary, someone asks if they know when a hug ends. “You just know,” comes the response...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: As the crisis in West Asia resulting from the US and Israel’s war entered day 30 on Sunday (March 29), the...
Listen to this article: In 1935, Evelyn Waugh set out to search the pre-war Georgian era. Two years later in 1937, Graham Greene tried presenting till...
It is one of the more enduring, if entirely predictable, tragedies of our post-colonial republic that the most vicious assaults on the fragile...
Listen to this article: The Indian freedom struggle is an event that is both over-determined and under-determined. Books – both laudatory and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down strongly on the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in a recent report,...
Listen to this article: As India’s higher education system reorganises itself under the National Education Policy 2020, a quieter constitutional...
Listen to this article: Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House on March 26, US Vice President JD Vance justified the United States...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: When the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report on December 17, 2014 clearing former coal...
New Delhi: Claiming that Arab nations were closely working with Washington in the ongoing war against Iran, US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown...
New Delhi: Over 140 lawyers, feminists and civil rights activists have petitioned President Droupadi Murmu to withhold assent to the Transgender...
Listen to this article: An international order is supposed to ensure the security of states. The so-called international liberal order was sold on the...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: It is instructive to recall the enduring legacy of Field Marshal S.H.F.J. Manekshaw on his 111th birth anniversary...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Former Nepal prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli and the country’s former home minister Ramesh Lekhak have been taken...
Listen to this article: For most people, wool is a winter fabric, warm, familiar, maybe a bit old-fashioned. It sits in cupboards as shawls, sweaters,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman who runs Tesla, X and SpaceX, was part of a recent phone call between US...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: India on Friday (March 27) expressed “profound grief” over the killing of more than 160 people, mostly...
Listen to this article: Vaux-de-Cernay, France: Top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries showed divisions over the Iran war but agreed to call...
Listen to this article: Once you are handed over, Tihar begins its six hours of prisoner processing. We walked from the police bus to the big gate...
Listen to this article: The recent judgment in Chinthada Anand v. State of Andhra Pradesh (March 24, 2026), meticulously follows the letter of the...