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Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reached to Pakistan for “bilateral consultations” last evening,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The chapters unfolding in Manipur today may appear new, but they echo a script the state has already lived through....
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A meeting of BRICS deputy foreign ministers and special envoys on West Asia ended on Friday without a joint...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: From “partisan asymmetry” in enforcing the Model Code of Conduct to “public denunciation of a recognised...
The violence in Manipur is escalating at an alarming rate. However, no one incident can explain the complexity of the situation. We need to see the...
Listen to this article: Dhaka: At a time when Bangladesh is in serious financial stress amid rising costs of energy import and a historic revenue...
Listen to this article: Welfare policies targeting women became a flashpoint in political debates during the recent election campaigns in Tamil Nadu....
New Delhi: After embarrassing the Bharatiya Janata Party government, admitting to a global audience in the US capital that India had acquiesced to US...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Weeks after a public fallout with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which moved to suspend and then replace him in Rajya...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: As West Bengal enters the final phases of its assembly elections, central investigative agencies have intensified...
Listen to this article: Militancy drew national attention to Kashmir twice in 2025 – first in April, when militants killed 22 tourists in Pahalgam,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On April 16, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan disposed of a contempt petition filed by the NGO Lok...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain petitions by electoral officers who are themselves deleted from the...
Listen to this article: The spectacle of former Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai meeting a self-styled godman, Dhirendra Shastri – known by the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Over the past several decades, the US has cultivated a mythology of military competence and moral clarity in its...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The war triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 56 on Friday (April 24). US president Donald...
Listen to this article: On Wednesday (April 22), on the eve of the first phase of assembly elections in West Bengal, it was not Prime Minister...
Listen to this article: Amid reports of a ceasefire extension announced by Donald Trump, the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as a critical maritime...
Listen to this article: Rewa: Well over half of the deaths in India are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension, heart attacks and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (April 23) shared a four-page transcript on Truth Social of...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released statistics related to the just-concluded Tamil Nadu assembly...
Listen to this article: The debate swirling around the Delimitation Bill 2026 – which sought to expand the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 seats and...
Listen to this article: At London’s Heathrow airport, the queue splits in two. One line moves quickly – of those with British and European...
The special session of parliament has two crucial takeaways for the opposition: first, they must hereafter be alert to scrutinise every move by this...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: A private contractor wilfully damaged a protected forest corridor in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir without...
Listen to this article: On April 23, the first phase of voting in Bengal turned into a festive spectacle at Punisol village in Bankura. Only a few...
Listen to this article: As the two weeks’ truce between Iran and the United States enters extended time, it should be obvious to anyone who has not...
Listen to this article: In a speech before the Knesset on October 13, 2021, Bezalel Smotrich – now Israel’s finance minister and a senior partner...
A recap of the failures Pahalgam was Pakistan’s answer for the Jaffar Express terror attack. The link is clear from the fulminations of then...
Listen to this article: In West Bengal, the appellate tribunal that was supposed to act as a safeguard for wrongly excluded voters has instead come to...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal’s Phase 1 polling gathered strong momentum through the morning, with overall turnout rising to 41.11%...
Listen to this article: Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are both voting today, April 23. Both states are run by parties opposed to the Bharatiya Janata...
Listen to this article: The Justice Kurian Joseph Committee on Union-State Relations, constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu in April 2025 –...
Listen to this article: The former Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat says that the Election Commission should have followed T.N.Seshan’s...
Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India sent instructions to officials deployed in poll-bound West Bengal to book notorious...
Listen to this article: Murshidabad (Bengal): How many voters in Bengal, whose cases were disposed of by the tribunal, have ultimately regained their...
Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India sent instructions to officials deployed in poll-bound West Bengal to book notorious...
Listen to this article: Recently, on Eid, someone told me, “Aapke haath ki eidi barqat wale ko milti hai.” It translates to, blessed are those who...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: At a time when several political parties have flagged what appeared to be a blatant violation of the Model Code of...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: At a time when several political parties have flagged what appeared to be a blatant violation of the Model Code of...
Listen to this article: Jhargram (Bengal): Rina Shing, a landless marginal labourer and housewife from Shilda Rajar Bagan Colony in the Binpur...
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which sought to increase the number of parliamentary constituencies, was defeated in Lok Sabha on April...
Listen to this article: Back in 2016, just after the shock election of Donald Trump to the White House, one of the authors of this article suggested,...
Listen to this article: Mangaluru: It was a particularly busy night at the Mumbai Naka police station in Nashik. During the intervening night of April...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Last year, Samserganj in Murshidabad’s border belt made national headlines after communal tension over the Waqf...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Thirty-year-old Jay Acharya lives in Sonarpur, on the outskirts of Kolkata. The sales agent of a paint company, every...
Listen to this article: South Asia rarely knows what to do with a moment that is not zero-sum. In a region as combustible as ours, that should be an...
Listen to this article: Naxalism may have more or less ended by Union home minister Amit Shah’s March 31 deadline with the vast majority of Maoist...
Listen to this article: The recent bill to amend the Women’s Reservation Bill, which failed to pass in the Lok Sabha, was tethered to delimitation,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Since the US Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs imposed from April...