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Trump-Xi Meet: US to Lower Tariffs on China, Beijing to Keep up Rare Earths Supply

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The Wire Staff

Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Testing, Will Likely Set Off New Global, South Asian Arms Race

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Siddharth Varadarajan

A 'Hindu Card' for Rs 50: Inside a Camp Issuing Citizenship Shields for Matuas in Bengal

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Joydeep Sarkar

'Task' Is One of This Year’s Most Grounded, Humane and Satisfying Crime Dramas

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Tatsam Mukherjee

2027 UP Polls: SP Plans to Release Multiple Localised, Region-Specific Manifestos to Get Edge Over BJP

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Asad Rizvi

Six Years After Last Meeting, Trade, Taiwan, and Russia Still Priority For Trump and Xi

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Rana Mitter

Cyclone Montha Makes Landfall Over Andhra Pradesh

Cyclone Montha Makes Landfall Over Andhra Pradesh

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Severe cyclonic storm Montha crossed the central Andhra Pradesh coast in the intervening night of Tuesday and...

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The Wire Staff

Hope for Pregnant Woman's Return to India Dims as Govt Challenges Repatriation Order in Apex Court

Listen to this article: Mass evictions of people living in slums across cities, using force, amid allegations of ‘illegal immigration’ have...

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Joydeep Sarkar

I Was Not a ‘Muslim Commissioner’: Identity Must Never Eclipse Integrity

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S.y. Quraishi

Focus on Jobs, Youth in INDIA Bloc's ‘Tejashwi’ Manifesto for Bihar Elections

Focus on Jobs, Youth in INDIA Bloc's ‘Tejashwi’ Manifesto for Bihar Elections

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The opposition INDIA bloc on Tuesday (October 28) released its joint manifesto for the upcoming Bihar assembly...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Veiled Voices: Women Journalists Defying Oppression in West Asia

Listen to this article: Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an uprising that has been described...

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Farinaz Basmechi

Trump Repeats India-Pak Peace Claim, Says He Was 'Going to Put 250% Tariffs on Each Country'

Trump Repeats India-Pak Peace Claim, Says He Was 'Going to Put 250% Tariffs on Each Country'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: US president Donald Trump has once again repeated the claim that he used trade to bring tensions down between...

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The Wire Staff

Debt, Jobs and Agnipath: The Reality of 'Dunki' Youth Deported By the US

Debt, Jobs and Agnipath: The Reality of 'Dunki' Youth Deported By the US

Listen to this article: Jalandhar: Amidst an ongoing crackdown against illegal immigrants, two tragic truck accidents involving young Sikh youths...

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Kusum Arora

J&K Bypolls: BJP Files Complaint Against Omar Abdullah for Alleged MCC Violation

J&K Bypolls: BJP Files Complaint Against Omar Abdullah for Alleged MCC Violation

Listen to this article: Srinagar: The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) with a complaint against...

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Jehangir Ali

A Day After SIR Is Announced in Bengal, Political Uproar Over Elderly Man's Death by Suicide

A Day After SIR Is Announced in Bengal, Political Uproar Over Elderly Man's Death by Suicide

Listen to this article: Kolkata: A 57-year-old resident of the Kolkata-adjacent Panihati allegedly died by suicide on October 28, fewer than 24...

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Joydeep Sarkar

‘Two Aussie Cricketers Harassed in Indore’: India’s Misogyny Scores Again

‘Two Aussie Cricketers Harassed in Indore’: India’s Misogyny Scores Again

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In the ongoing match between Indian patriarchy and women’s safety, misogyny continues to lead by an innings and...

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Oindrila Dasgupta

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

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

Listen to this article: New Delhi: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on October 25 defended Washington’s closer engagement with Pakistan despite...

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The Wire Staff

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

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

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday (October 27) announced that the nationwide special intensive...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

The North Bengal Floods Are The Cost of Development

The North Bengal Floods Are The Cost of Development

Listen to this article: Hoglatari (Bengal): At dawn, the sound came first, a roar that seemed to tear the sky apart. Within minutes, a wall of...

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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

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

Listen to this article: Andal (West Bengal): The saffron brigade issued a directive to all fish and meat shops in Andal, an industrial town in...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

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

Listen to this article: In Yogendra Ahuja’s novella Laffaz, the storyteller emerges not as a guardian of memory or a conjurer of collective...

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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