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Nepal Not Seeking Third-Party Mediation on Border Dispute With India, Says Foreign Minister Khanal

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Nepal foreign minister Shisir Khanal on Sunday (June 7) said Kathmandu had not sought third-party mediation in its...

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Isn't the Threat of Violence Against Muslims Already a Form of Violence?

Listen to this article: There has been a renewed intensification of violence and hate propaganda directed against Muslims. Not that it had ever really...

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Apoorvanand

Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman Chooses Malaysia for First Foreign Visit, Sidestepping India-China Optics

Listen to this article: Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to make his first overseas visit to Malaysia on June 21–22, in what...

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Jebun nesa alo

Why India Keeps Returning to Defence Weapons It Spent Years Rejecting

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: If there is one enduring feature of India’s defence procurement, it is the tendency of the Ministry of Defence...

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Rahul Bedi

In 'Bandar', Anurag Kashyap Stares Unflinchingly at One Form of Injustice and Dodges the Larger One

Anurag Kashyap’s Bandar is set in a fascinating world. An out-of-work actor Samar Mehra (Bobby Deol), 50, a shadow of his ‘90s screen-self, has to...

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Tatsam Mukherjee

Fact Check: Mr Rijiju, Persecution of Religious Minorities in India is Not 'Propaganda' But the Reality

Listen to this article: Mangaluru: On Thursday (June 4), while speaking at the Minority Affairs Ministry’s “Reforms Utsav” organised at Bharat...

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Sukanya Shantha

BJP MLA Recommends Changing Name of Rajasthan Village From Islampur to Shri Rampur, Locals Protest

Listen to this article: Jaipur: A legislator from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan has urged the state government to change the...

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Deep Mukherjee

Why the RSS’s Vishwaguru Vision Collapses Under Its Own Hypocrisy

Listen to this article: Hypocrisy is inimical to scrutiny. It demands surrender and obedience. If you persist with inspection because reality is more...

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Sanjay Jha

African Cheetah Under Treatment At Kuno National Park Dies

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The African cheetah undergoing treatment at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park has died. Park authorities...

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Killing the Hill Stations

Listen to this article: Summer is here, and with that our already run down hill stations and roads are alarmingly over trampled upon by pilgrims,...

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Mrinal Pande

Union Govt Hikes Price of Domestic LPG by Rs 29 Per Cylinder, Second Increase in Three Months

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Union government has hiked the price of domestic cooking liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs 29 per cylinder....

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'We're an Electoral Autocracy': Meet the Cockroaches at the First Cockroach Janta Party Protest

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Sameeksha, a 19-year-old college student who had appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Decoding Beijing's Coercion Tactics

Listen to this article: In his book China’s Wars: The Politics and Diplomacy Behind its Military Coercion, author Vijay Gokhale, former foreign...

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Joe thomas karackattu

Despite Public Silence, India and Nepal Discuss Boundary Dispute, Agree to Continue Talks Through Existing Mechanism

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India and Nepal discussed their long-standing boundary dispute during talks in New Delhi on Saturday (June 6), with...

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Devirupa Mitra

A Lived Sociology of Caste

Listen to this article: Reading Homes without Windows, I frequently experienced flashes of deja vu. Although unlike Chandu Maheria, I grew up in a...

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Anand Teltumbde

It's the Small Things | Searching for a Location

Listen to this article: I often wonder how we managed without online maps, particularly in big cities. We stopped a lot and asked for directions, I...

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Apoorva tadepalli

Backstory: Media’s Eyes-Wide-Shut Approach to Dowry Crimes is Only Enabling it

When it comes to dowry crimes, we may as well be living in the 1970s or ’80s, given the sickening regularity with which they persist in the...

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Pamela Philipose

India's Exam Fraud Bubble: 148 Cases, One Conviction in 11 Years

Listen to this article: On May 12, the Central Bureau of Investigation was handed its 18th exam fraud investigation since 2015. NEET-UG 2026, the...

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Ashutosh ranka and

Penguin Will Not Distribute Joe Sacco's Book on Muzaffarnagar Riots in India: Report

New Delhi: Penguin Random House (PRH) India will not distribute cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot about the...

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The Wire Staff

Cooler For Some, Unliveable For Others: Delhi’s Heat Crisis is a Failure of Law and Policy

Listen to this article: India has been reeling at the forefront from the impact of climate change over the past few years. Earlier imagined to be a...

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Raushan tara jaswal

Facing Mounting Questions, CBSE Drops Coempt's On-Screen Marking Platform: Reports

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has moved the re-evaluation process for class 12 answer scripts...

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Anirudh S. K

India Must Support Its Oilseed Farmers

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: India meets only 44% of its domestic demand for edible oil and spends more than $20 billion a year on imports, a bill that...

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Charu Bahri

In Photos | ‘Tumse Na Ho Payega’: At Jantar Mantar, CJP Demands Minister Pradhan's Resignation

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Chants of ‘resign!’ and ‘long live the revolution!’ echoed at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday (June 6)...

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Shome Basu

Question on Dissent Cut Short at CJI Surya Kant's London Lecture; Indian High Commission Criticises 'Indecorous' Conduct

Listen to this article: New Delhi:A question posed to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant in London about the growing suppression of dissent in...

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The Wire Staff

'With Full Backing of the Constitution': Cockroach Janata Party Gears up for Jantar Mantar Protest

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Security has been tightened across Delhi as the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), which began as a satirical online...

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The Wire Staff

Extremist Rhetoric Violates the Soul of Indian Dance

Listen to this article: Recently, a dear friend sent me an article by Simran Sharma titled ‘A masterclass in cultural piracy: Inside Sheema...

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Aranyani bhargav

JCBs and Chemicals Are Threatening Termites, the Hidden Engineers of Delhi Ridge

Listen to this article: Once upon a time it was – and perhaps still is – commonplace to regard termites as ‘pests’ to be destroyed. It’s...

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Pradip Krishen

Who Are the Parasites in India?

Listen to this article: The Cockroach Janta Party is now the voice of the resentment felt by Indian youth not only toward the incompetence, and even...

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Christophe Jaffrelot

India Lodges 'Strong Protest' Against June 7 Gilgit Baltistan Elections

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India today lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over its plans to hold elections to what Islamabad calls the...

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India Cites Bilateral Deportation Mechanism as Bangladesh Raises Fresh Push-In Claims

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India on Friday, June 5, didn’t address Bangladesh’s allegations that Indian authorities have been attempting...

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The Wire Staff

A Sucker for Football Since Pele's Brazil Spun Magic in 1970

Let’s first explore the etymology of the two synonymous words that define this simple, beautiful game described as “the ballet of the masses”....

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Mathew John

'No One Understands Our Pain': Inside Lebanon Where the Displaced Still Await Political Pathway

Listen to this article: On the night a ceasefire in Lebanon was announced, Amal and Hezbollah urged the over one million people displaced by the war...

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Ehsan salah

'Unprecedented Threat to Constitution': Former Civil Servants, Eminent Citizens Issue Missive on SIR

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of 181 former civil servants of the All India and Central Services, along...

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The Wire Staff

Anti-Muslim Politics Has Became Central to the Modi Era

Listen to this article: Having been born and brought up in a Namboodiri landlord family in Kerala’s only Muslim majority district before...

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P. Raman

UP Police Book Family of Man Killed in Ghazipur 'Encounter' For Protesting His Death

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Police in Uttar Pradesh (UP) have lodged a criminal case against the family members of a 28-year-old man, including...

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Omar Rashid

Modi's Demography Mission is Yet Another Hindutva Gimmick

French positivist thinker Auguste Comte (1798-1857), famed as the Father of Sociology, once said: “Demography is destiny”. What he meant was that...

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Partha S. Ghosh

India's Nuclear Liability Fund Has Hit Its Cap, But It Is Not Enough

Listen to this article: The Nuclear Liability Fund (NLF) established under the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act of 2010, and rules...

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R. Ramachandran

Coempt Eduteck's CBSE Contract Raises Questions: Lower Workload, Same Multicrore Contract

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) contract with Hyderabad-based Coempt Eduteck Private Limited, for its On-Screen Marking...

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Ease of Business Overtaking Our Environment Laws, Regulations: Jairam Ramesh

Listen to this article: Bengaluru: The ‘ease of doing business’ mantra is overtaking all environmental laws and regulations and we are...

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Aathira Perinchery

Regulatory Failure and Absence of Engineering Oversight are Turning Urban Buildings into Death Traps

Listen to this article: In less than a week, Delhi witnessed a series of incidents that together raise troubling questions about the state of building...

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Ranu Chauhan

Beyond Opposition: What the CJP Moment Reveals About Our Political Crisis

Listen to this article: As we witnessed on June 3, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement moved visibly beyond the digital sphere and entered...

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Soumyajit bhar

What the National Conference-Congress Rift Reveals About J&K's Political Future

Listen to this article: Srinagar: The cracks between National Conference (NC) and the Congress appear to be deepening after the latter was snubbed...

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Junaid Kathju

Rajesh Exports, Now Under Sebi Scrutiny, Was Named Beneficiary of Union Govt's Production Linked Incentive

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Rajesh Exports, now in the news after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) issued an interim order on...

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The Wire Staff

Kuki Body Raises Alarm over SIR in Manipur Amid Displacement Crisis

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Kuki Inpi Manipur has come out against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in...

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The Wire Staff

As the BJP Government Bulldozes Bengal's Hawkers, Resistance Sprouts From a Likely Quarter

Listen to this article: Kolkata: The bulldozer has been a consistent symbol of the month that has passed since the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Women Want a Say In How Rajasthan's Solar Projects Work: What's Keeping Them Out?

Listen to this article: In 2021, India announced its ambitious target of achieving 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel-based energy capacity by...

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Samiksha bharti and

From Denial to Data: Evidence of RBI’s Gold Drawdown in May 2026

Listen to this article: A controversy has erupted around India’s central bank after data-driven analysis suggested the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...

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Dhananjay Sinha

What Ramachandra Guha Gets Wrong About the Congress

Listen to this article: Once every few years, popular historian Ramchandra Guha emerges to warn us that the malaises that plague the Congress party,...

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Sarayu Pani

Why India's Caste Census Debate Should Ask the Right Questions

Listen to this article: When the Telangana government released the findings of its Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste...

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Boddu Srujana

Modi, Venezuela's Rodríguez Push For Deeper Energy Ties Amid Caracas's US-Backed Oil Revival

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held talks with Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez, focusing on...

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