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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...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The crisis in West Asia triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 54 on Wednesday (April 22)....
Listen to this article: While the government failed to garner the majority required to pass The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First. Amendment)...
Listen to this article: Pahalgam/Shopian: Every day at the crack of dawn, Ishfaq Nazeer’s ears, conditioned to awaken to the azaan that echoes from...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Teams of Chandigarh and Delhi police reached the office of writer Madhu Purnima Kishwar, a day after she was booked...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The curtains have come down on one of Tamil Nadu’s most layered and closely watched election campaigns in recent...
Listen to this article: By now, the special intensive revision (SIR) has been completed in 10 states and three Union territories, namely Andaman and...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: A year after the Pahalgam terrorist attack, the Bhartiya Janta Party-led Union government is yet to specify the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Germany to deepen defence ties, a stubborn reality overshadows the visit:...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Congress MP K.C. Venugopal has submitted a privilege notice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that he...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: India recorded a sharp rise in outbound investment in March even as foreign portfolio investors continued to...
Listen to this article: The only time Manipur enters into our collective national consciousness is when there is violence. The violence is usually...
Listen to this article: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi high court on April 20 dismissed former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The crisis in West Asia triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 52 on Tuesday (April 21)....
Listen to this article: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, You had stated in your address to the nation on the women’s reservation issue that...
Listen to this article: In the mid-2024, India was buying more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, some 43-44% of its imports, from Russia....
Listen to this article: Lakshmi Das and her daughter Jayanti sell sweets from door to door. At least four days a week, Lakshmi, with two heavily...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Delhi high court judge, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday (April 20) rejected the petition filed by Aam Aadmi...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The outcome of India’s Atmanirbhar or indigenous military aviation ambitions is determined less by design...
Listen to this article: Below is the edited transcript of a speech delivered online by Professor Anand Teltumbde, on April 17, 2026, at a seminar on...
Listen to this article: Opposition parties were successful in defeating the “Mens’s Reservation Bill” clad as Women’s reservation Bill and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Over 700 concerned citizens have signed a complaint to the Election Commission of India noting that Prime Minister...
Listen to this article: I felt a surge of jubilation on learning that the people of Hungary had finally ousted their long-entrenched strongman, Viktor...
Listen to this article: Recent protests across Noida, Manesar, Gurugram, and Panipat – now extending into adjoining industrial clusters – might...
Listen to this article: A granular analysis of deleted voter rolls in three West Bengal constituencies suggests that what is being presented as...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: In politics, a story often acquires real weight the moment it is denied. That is what unfolded on April 19 in West...
Listen to this article: Lalgarh (Bengal): By the third week of April, Lalgarh, under the Jhargram district of Bengal’s Jangalmahal had already begun...
Listen to this article: The Narendra Modi government’s defeat over the Constitution Amendment three-Bills package to get new rules for the next...
Listen to this article: The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, moved by the Union Government to redistribute...
Listen to this article: For five hours, around 30 workers stood at a worksite in Raichur district of Karnataka, waiting – not for work, but for...
Listen to this article: Let’s get this straight first – it was not the Women’s Reservation Bill 2026 which was rejected by the opposition...
Listen to this article: President Donald Trump has now said that the US has forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around the...
Listen to this article: In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat is both alive and dead until observed. In contemporary Bengal, that paradox has...
Listen to this article: Logical discrepancy is a malady that seems to have afflicted some of the highest echelons of the Indian state. One is not...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police and administration have engaged in a “witch-hunt” and “repression” of workers and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Indo-Gangetic plain region is one of the most heavily affected by heatwaves in India. A new study shows that...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an extraordinary public speech targeting opposition parties...
Listen to this article: Kabir khade baazaar mein, chaahe sabki khair, naa kaahu se dosti naa kaahu se bair. Kabir stands in the marketplace, wishing...
Listen to this article: Dhaka: Sohel Rana, a businessman, went to buy fuel for his motorbike on April 14, the first day of the Bangla New Year 1433,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Manipur is on the boil again. Fresh protests are rocking the state after two children were killed and their mother...
Listen to this article: In the quiet, disciplined rows of an army cantonment in Devlali in Maharashtra, life usually followed a predictable rhythm....
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Communist Party of India Rajya Sabha MP Sandosh Kumar P. has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar...