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Ahead of Jaishankar Meet, Rubio Concedes Indian Unease but Backs Deeper US-Pak Ties

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The Wire Staff

Election Commission Announces SIR Across 12 States and UTs; Leaves Out Assam

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Sravasti Dasgupta

The North Bengal Floods Are The Cost of Development

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Joydeep Sarkar

BJP's Closure Order to Fish and Meat Shops for Chhath Puja, Followed by Threats, Sparks Tension in Bengal Town

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Yogendra Ahuja's 'Laffaz' Is a Novella of Unsettling Brilliance

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Sudeshna Chakravorty

The Price of Perfection: K-Culture Versus the Culture of Korea

The Price of Perfection: K-Culture Versus the Culture of Korea

It begins with a song. Perhaps it is a track by BTS, Blackpink, Red Velvet, or G-IDLE blaring through headphones, or the defining legacy of icons...

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Reeti Roy

Bail Deferred: Supreme Court Takes Dim View of Delhi Police's 'More Time' Request for Umar Khalid, Others' Pleas

Bail Deferred: Supreme Court Takes Dim View of Delhi Police's 'More Time' Request for Umar Khalid, Others' Pleas

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today took a dim view of the Delhi Police’s failure to respond to the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam,...

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The Wire Staff

Digital Sovereignty or Surrender? Modi Govt's Zoho Shift is a Troubling Step Backwards

Digital Sovereignty or Surrender? Modi Govt's Zoho Shift is a Troubling Step Backwards

Listen to this article: The unheralded migration of over 12 lakh Central government email accounts, including those of the Prime Minister’s Office...

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Arun Kumar P.k

The Silent Catastrophe: Reimagining India’s Breast Cancer Care

The Silent Catastrophe: Reimagining India’s Breast Cancer Care

Listen to this article: A breast cancer diagnosis does not merely shatter the patient; it destabilises an entire family. For a woman, the moment...

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Renuka Chowdhury

Sweet Dreams of Luring Scholars While Driving Our Own Away

Sweet Dreams of Luring Scholars While Driving Our Own Away

Listen to this article: After Donald Trump’s assault on institutions of higher education in the United States, a curious excitement can be noticed...

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Apoorvanand

Ghost Villages and Choking Cities: How Our Countrysides are Falling Silent

Ghost Villages and Choking Cities: How Our Countrysides are Falling Silent

Listen to this article: Senior Hindi poets in the early years of freedom like Maithili Sharan Gupt and Sumitranandan Pant wrote gushingly about the...

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Mrinal Pande

Caste Factor, General and Secular Issues Make Communal and 'Ghuspaithiya' Agenda Irrelevant in Bihar

Caste Factor, General and Secular Issues Make Communal and 'Ghuspaithiya' Agenda Irrelevant in Bihar

Listen to this article: One of the striking aspects of the upcoming Bihar assembly polls is that the Grand Alliance, also known as Mahagathbandhan...

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S.n. Sahu

Hindu Festival, Jihad Fixation: VHP Rolls Out Chhath Puja Campaign

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has launched a new campaign in Delhi on the occasion of Chhath Puja, distributing...

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Ankit Raj

Prashant Kishor’s Debut Is Likely to Impact Both Coalitions – But Mahagathbandhan More Than NDA

Prashant Kishor’s Debut Is Likely to Impact Both Coalitions – But Mahagathbandhan More Than NDA

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bihar’s electoral history is characterised by a pattern of disproportionality between vote share and seat...

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Pavan Korada

Questions of Safety Violations, Attempts to Identify 21 Victims: Here's What We Know of the Kurnool Bus Fire

Questions of Safety Violations, Attempts to Identify 21 Victims: Here's What We Know of the Kurnool Bus Fire

Listen to this article: Hyderabad: At least 21 passengers were burnt alive when a private Volvo bus caught fire on the outskirts of Kurnool town in...

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N. Rahul

J&K: INDIA Bloc Bags 3 Rajya Sabha Seats, BJP Defies Electoral Arithmetic to Win One

Listen to this article: Srinagar: The Rajya Sabha election in Jammu and Kashmir triggered a political storm on Friday after the Bhartiya Janta...

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Jehangir Ali

Racist Enforcement of Incitement Laws Spans Both Sides of the Israel Green Line

Racist Enforcement of Incitement Laws Spans Both Sides of the Israel Green Line

Listen to this article: Since the February 2023 pogrom in the West Bank village of Huwara – and even more so following the outbreak of war on...

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Eitay Mack

Modi Not Just PM, He is an ‘Idea’, a ‘Spiritual Force’ Coming From a ‘Divine Order’: MH Governor

New Delhi: Narendra Modi is not merely prime minister, he is also “an idea” and “a spiritual force” who came to earth from a “divine order”,...

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The Wire Staff

Char Dham Can Take Only Limited Visitors: Study Recommends Ways to Divert Existing Tourist Pressure

Char Dham Can Take Only Limited Visitors: Study Recommends Ways to Divert Existing Tourist Pressure

Listen to this article: New Delhi: While the number of visitors to the Char Dham – the Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines in...

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The Wire Staff

No Ex Gratia For Two Darjeeling Landslide Victims as Officials Make Conflicting Claims Over Citizenship

Listen to this article: Darjeeling/Kolkata: For the Nepali-speaking community living along the India-Nepal border, nationality is a status that is...

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Rizwan Rahman

Purulia Tribal Family Kills Lone Educated Woman in Household for 'Being a Witch'

Purulia Tribal Family Kills Lone Educated Woman in Household for 'Being a Witch'

Listen to this article: Chapur (Bengal): Residents of Chapur village in Bengal’s Jangalmahal district of Purulia on October 20 brutally murdered a...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

MAGA Think Tanks Aim to Perpetuate a Trumpism Beyond Trump

MAGA Think Tanks Aim to Perpetuate a Trumpism Beyond Trump

Listen to this article: The durability of political movements is rarely secured by charisma alone. While Donald Trump remains the gravitational...

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Inderjeet Parmar

Full Text | ‘This Govt Doesn’t Like it When People Watch It’: Justice AP Shah on Why We Need the RTI

Full Text | ‘This Govt Doesn’t Like it When People Watch It’: Justice AP Shah on Why We Need the RTI

This is the full text of the speech that Justice A.P. Shah – who retired as Delhi high court Chief Justice – delivered at the RTI Mela and...

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A.p. Shah

As INDIA Names Tejashwi as CM Face, Pressure on NDA, Yet to Declare Nitish as its Pick

As INDIA Names Tejashwi as CM Face, Pressure on NDA, Yet to Declare Nitish as its Pick

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The opposition INDIA bloc’s move to name Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav as the...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Interview | Global Rise of RW Populism Linked to Decline in Social Protections: Olivier De Schutter

New Delhi: Remember the speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the 2024 general elections, where he warned his supporters that if...

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Alishan Jafri

Reliance ‘Recalibrating’ Oil Purchases From Russia As US Threatens Secondary Sanctions

Reliance ‘Recalibrating’ Oil Purchases From Russia As US Threatens Secondary Sanctions

Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Washington imposing sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies and threatening secondary sanctions...

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The Wire Staff