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Rajya Sabha: BJP MP Alleges OBC Reservation ‘Misused’ to Favour Muslims, Opp Stages Walkout

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...

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The Wire Staff

Nehru Stood by Iran When its Leaders Were Assassinated and Solved Suez Crisis. Now, it Exposes Modi's Foreign Policy.

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...

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S.n. Sahu

A Charter Without a Clear Path: Bangladesh's Reform Plan Hits Constitutional Hurdle

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...

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Faisal Mahmud

Anil Agarwal Says Vedanta's Jaypee Asset Bid – Which Went to Adani – Was Reversed After Confirmation

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...

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The Wire Staff

‘Vulnerable’ Rupee Will Continue to Fall Irrespective of War, May Rise Above 95 Against Dollar: Japanese Bank MUFG

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...

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When Has War Ever Not Been Terror?

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...

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Tanweer Fazal

Parliamentary Panel Flags Space Technology Transfer at Disproportionately Low Prices to Private Sector

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has raised concerns over the transfer of technologies in the space sector to the private...

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The Wire Staff

Fresh Govt Takedown Orders on Facebook, X Target Mohammed Zubair, News Outlets Molitics and National Dastak

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In a fresh spate of takedowns, at least three Facebook pages – of news platforms Molitics and National Dastak,...

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The Wire Staff

WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference Ends in Deadlock and Exposes Deep Fault Lines in the WTO

Listen to this article: The WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14), held in Yaoundé, Cameroon from March 26–29, ended without agreement on key...

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Ajay Srivastava

Conservationists Seek Immediate Withdrawal of Orders to Deploy 1,600 Forest Personnel for Assam Elections

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Conservationists and retired forest officials have written to the Assam government urging them to withdraw their...

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The Wire Staff

12 Lakh Fewer SC Students Get Scholarships Under PMS in 2025-26

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In yet another blow to government-funded scholarships and schemes for marginalised communities, the number of...

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The Wire Staff

India and the Global Democratic Backslide: Insights From Freedom In the World 2026 Report

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Freedom House’s 2026 edition of Freedom in the World report, “The Growing Shadow of Autocracy,” presents a...

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Ritvi jain

Same Bench, Opposite Outcomes: Compassion and Rigour in Two NDPS Orders Six Days Apart

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...

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Day 31 of US-Israel War on Iran: Indian National Killed in Kuwait, Trump Says He Wants to 'Take the Oil in Iran'

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...

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The Disasters of War, As Seen Through The Eyes of One of The World’s Great Painters

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....

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Anjan Basu

In Inserting Itself into the West Asia Crisis, Pakistan's Diplomacy Has Shown Chutzpah

Listen to this article: Pakistan’s emergence as a diplomatic interlocutor in the enduring ‘engagement’ between the United States and Iran, has...

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Rahul Bedi

Pakistan Says it Will Host US-Iran Talks After Türkiye, Egypt, Saudi Diplomats Meet in Islamabad

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...

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The Wire Staff

Why Water Should Be on the India-China Agenda

Listen to this article: As climate stress intensifies across Asia’s river basins, water security is emerging as an area where strategic rivals such...

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Ambika Vishwanath

Dr B.R. Ambedkar Cannot Be Rewritten: Reading Bhanwar Bhanwar Meghwanshi’s Critique of RSS Nationalism

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...

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Neeraj Bunkar

Three Injured After Soldier Opens Fire at North Kashmir Barrack

Listen to this article: Srinagar: Three army soldiers were reportedly injured, one of them critically, after a soldier opened fire in a barrack with...

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The Wire Staff

The Threshold: Decoding the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections

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...

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Vignesh Karthik K.r

'Petrol Poured into Private Parts, Thrashed Like an Animal': Gujarat Journalist Alleges Police Brutality

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A local journalist based in Rajkot, Gujarat, Sudesh Vadecha, has alleged that he was subjected to severe torture...

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Ankit Raj

It’s the Small Things | Ancestral Home

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...

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Richa jaswal

Under Grey Smoggy Skies: An Eye-Opener For Citizens Who Have Grown Numb to the Plight of India’s Homeless

Listen to this article: Harsh Mander, who describes himself rather humbly as “a peace and justice worker” despite the breadth of his social...

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Chintan Girish Modi

'In the White Heat of Contradiction': Asha Thadani on Photographing Marginal Lives with Dignity

Listen to this article: Photographic artist Asha Thadani discusses her thought process behind her solo exhibition ‘I to Eye: Shades of Humanity’...

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Gujarat Is the Only State in India Whose Assembly Doesn't Livestream Proceedings

Listen to this article: Six years after a petition was filed, Gujarat remains the only state in India whose legislative assembly does not livestream...

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Vibes Of India

Same Week, Different Standards: Why a Bombay HC Bench Shielded Adani While the SC Pushed Agencies on Anil Ambani

Listen to this article: In late March 2026, two Indian courts delivered sharply contrasting signals on corporate fraud. On March 23, a three-judge...

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The Wire Analysis

Who is Afraid of Non Violation Complaints?

Listen to this article: Trade ministers gathering in Cameroon for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference would take  a decision...

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K.m. gopakumar

Who Were the Three Journalists Israel Killed in Lebanon?

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Israel killed three journalists who were covering the country’s invasion of Lebanon with an airstrike on the...

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The Wire Staff

The Many Angles to Implementing Women’s Reservation in Politics

Listen to this article: It seems that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing for delimitation without the 2027 Census results, on the...

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Radha Kumar

‘Project Hail Mary’ Fuses Spielberg’s Sentimentality and MCU’s Grating Self-Awareness

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...

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Tatsam Mukherjee

Day 30 of US-Israel War on Iran: Five Killed in Iran's Hormozgan Province in Fresh US-Israeli Strikes

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...

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The Wire Staff

As Though There is No War

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...

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Mrinal Pande

The Padma Shri and the ‘Donkey's Egg’

It is one of the more enduring, if entirely predictable, tragedies of our post-colonial republic that the most vicious assaults on the fragile...

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Pavan Korada

Blending Genres in Myriad Fascinating Ways, ‘Zoraver and the Lost Gods’ is a Page-Turner

Listen to this article: The Indian freedom struggle is an event that is both over-determined and under-determined. Books – both laudatory and...

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Gautam Bhatia

In Delhi, 55% of Groundwater Samples Not Fit for Drinking; Jal Board Ineffective: CAG Report

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,...

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Sharmita Kar

How the NEP is Reshaping Autonomy for Minority Institutions

Listen to this article: As India’s higher education system reorganises itself under the National Education Policy 2020, a quieter constitutional...

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Bupinder singh bali

From WMDs in Iraq to Iranian Nuclear Vests: How Threat Narratives Shape Wars

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...

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Kuldip Singh

Coal Block Acquittal Raises Hard Questions About Prosecuting Bureaucrats for Committee Decisions

Listen to this article: New Delhi: When the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report on December 17, 2014 clearing former coal...

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The Wire Analysis

Trump Claims Saudi Crown Prince ‘Kissing My Ass’ as He Praises Arab Allies Over NATO

New Delhi: Claiming that Arab nations were closely working with Washington in the ongoing war against Iran, US President Donald Trump said Saudi Crown...

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The Wire Staff

Over 140 Lawyers, Feminists, Activists Urge President Not to Assent to Transgender Bill

New Delhi: Over 140 lawyers, feminists and civil rights activists have petitioned President Droupadi Murmu to withhold assent to the Transgender...

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The Wire Staff

US Hegemonic World Order, the West Asia Crisis and the Security of Weak States

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...

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Nazir Ahmad Mir

Sam Manekshaw at 111: A Legacy of Integrity That Challenges Today's Indian Army

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...

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Rahul Bedi

Nepal Former PM KP Sharma Oli and Ex-Home Minister Arrested Over 2025 Gen-Z Protest Crackdown

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...

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The Wire Staff

In Underestimating One of Our Most Advanced Fabrics, We Are Pulling the Wool Over Our Own Eyes

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,...

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Rahul noble singh

Elon Musk Was Part of Tuesday's Trump-Modi Phone Call on West Asia Crisis, Says Report

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...

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The Wire Staff

India Expresses ‘Profound Grief’ Over Mass Killing of Iranian Schoolgirls in Strike

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India on Friday (March 27) expressed “profound grief” over the killing of more than 160 people, mostly...

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The Wire Staff

G7 Meets on the Iran War as Rubio Tries to Sell US Strategy to Sceptical Allies Insulted by Trump

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...

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Matthew lee and

A Weekend in Tihar

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...

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Varkey parakkal

The Law and Reality: Are Dalits Not Dalits if They Convert to Christianity or Islam?

Listen to this article: The recent judgment in Chinthada Anand v. State of Andhra Pradesh (March 24, 2026), meticulously follows the letter of the...

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Pavan Korada