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Day 57 of US-Israel War on Iran: US Sends Envoys Witkoff and Kushner For Talks as Iran's Araghchi Lands in Pakistan

Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reached to Pakistan for “bilateral consultations” last evening,...

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The Wire Staff

Anger, Distrust, and a Cycle of Unfinished Justice: Manipur on the Brink Again

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....

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Yaqut Ali

BRICS Fails to Agree on Iran War at Delhi Meeting

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...

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The Wire Staff

With Nine Charges, 73 Opposition MPs Move Fresh Notice in Rajya Sabha to Remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Listen to this article: New Delhi: From “partisan asymmetry” in enforcing the Model Code of Conduct to “public denunciation of a recognised...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Manipur Needs No More Repression or Coercion. It Needs a Deeper Understanding

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...

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Nandita Haksar

IMF Pauses Loan Plan For Bangladesh: How Did Dhaka Get There?

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...

yesterday 10

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Jebun nesa alo

Are They Really Freebies? What the Welfare Debate Reveals About Tamil Nadu’s Political Culture

Listen to this article: Welfare policies targeting women became a flashpoint in political debates during the recent election campaigns in Tamil Nadu....

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Preethi pandian and

Ram Madhav Says Indian Govt Accepted US Demands on Oil and Tariffs, Later Says 'Was Wrong'

New Delhi: After embarrassing the Bharatiya Janata Party government, admitting to a global audience in the US capital that India had acquiesced to US...

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The Wire Staff

Raghav Chadha, Six Other AAP MPs to Join BJP

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...

yesterday 10

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The Wire Staff

In Numbers: How BJP Deploys Central Agencies Like the Enforcement Directorate During Elections

Listen to this article: New Delhi: As West Bengal enters the final phases of its assembly elections, central investigative agencies have intensified...

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Pavan Korada

A Look Back on Kashmir’s Unprecedented Response to Pahalgam Attack

Listen to this article: Militancy drew national attention to Kashmir twice in 2025 – first in April, when militants killed 22 tourists in Pahalgam,...

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Rekha Chowdhary

How Parliament Buried the Supreme Court's 2018 Mandate on Legislators' Assets

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...

yesterday 10

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The Wire Analysis

'Ironic': Supreme Court Dismisses Petition of Bengal Electoral Officers Deleted from Rolls

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain petitions by electoral officers who are themselves deleted from the...

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The Wire Staff

Gavai and the ‘Godman’: The Unravelling of India’s Social Justice Project Continues Apace

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...

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Vivek Deshpande

US Military Competence and the Myths it Rests on

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...

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Rahul Bedi

Day 56 of US-Israel War on Iran: Trump Says He is Under No Pressure to End War

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...

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The Wire Staff

From #2 to #1.5: How Amit Shah, Always Looming Large, Now Looms Larger

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...

yesterday 10

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Sravasti Dasgupta

The Strait of Hormuz: Between law and lawlessness in Maritime Zones

Listen to this article: Amid reports of a ceasefire extension announced by Donald Trump, the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as a critical maritime...

yesterday 10

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K.m. Seethi

63% of Deaths in India Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses

Listen to this article: Rewa: Well over half of the deaths in India are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension, heart attacks and...

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Banjot Kaur

MEA Acknowledges, Then Responds to Trump's 'Hellhole' Post on India

Listen to this article: New Delhi: United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (April 23) shared a four-page transcript on Truth Social of...

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The Wire Staff

ECI Releases Record Turnout Percentages for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu Polls, No Actual Voting Numbers Yet

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released statistics related to the just-concluded Tamil Nadu assembly...

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The Wire Staff

No to More Politicians: Delimitation Cannot Justify Expanding the Political Class

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...

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Anand Teltumbde

Not Just a Passport: Why Some Indians Abroad Choose Not to Change Citizenship

Listen to this article: At London’s Heathrow airport, the queue splits in two. One line moves quickly – of those with British and European...

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Syed Fayaz

Modi Dumped the Nehru-Atal Legacy To Make Way For Hate and Cult Promotion

The special session of parliament has two crucial takeaways for the opposition: first, they must hereafter be alert to scrutinise every move by this...

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P. Raman

Kishtwar: Protected Forrest Corridor Damaged to Ferry Construction Material for Sterlite Power Project

Listen to this article: Srinagar: A private contractor wilfully damaged a protected forest corridor in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir without...

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Jehangir Ali

Armed With a News Report on Their Plight, Punisol Villagers Have Reclaimed Their Right to Vote

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...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

As Trump and Netanyahu Edge Towards Nuclear Catastrophe, Nehru’s India Would Have Acted. Modi’s Stands Aside

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...

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Prem Shankar Jha

If Netanyahu and His Allies Win Elections, Ethnic Cleansing Could Expand to Israel Itself

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...

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Eitay Mack

Military Cannot Change the Regime’s Refrain, but It Need Not be Party to a Political Project

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...

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Ali Ahmed

Less Than 0.01% Get Relief: Bengal’s Appellate Tribunal Reduces the Right to Vote to a Bureaucratic Favour

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...

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Aparna Bhattacharya

Morning Sees High Turnout in Bengal, Voting Largely Peaceful Despite Scattered Flashpoints

Listen to this article: Kolkata: West Bengal’s Phase 1 polling gathered strong momentum through the morning, with overall turnout rising to 41.11%...

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Aparna Bhattacharya

Election Day in Bengal and Tamil Nadu: Reports of Violence at Domkol, Voters Queue Up in Chennai

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...

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The Wire Staff

Too Easy to Bend: How India's Over-Flexible Amendment Process Imperils the Constitution

Listen to this article: The Justice Kurian Joseph Committee on Union-State Relations, constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu in April 2025 –...

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K. ashok vardhan shetty

'Voters Left Out In Lakhs Is a Blot On Our Democracy': Former CEC Om Prakash Rawat

Listen to this article: The former Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat says that the Election Commission should have followed T.N.Seshan’s...

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M.k. Venu

Mostly TMC Leaders: Inside the ECI's List of Bengal 'Troublemakers'

Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India sent instructions to officials deployed in poll-bound West Bengal to book notorious...

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Anisha Dutta

As Bengal Votes in Phase One, Its Deleted Migrant Labourers Are in No-Man's Land

Listen to this article: Murshidabad (Bengal): How many voters in Bengal, whose cases were disposed of by the tribunal, have ultimately regained their...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

EC Issued Secret 'Troublemakers' List of Mostly TMC Leaders, Said They Could be Detained Before Polling

Listen to this article: The Election Commission of India sent instructions to officials deployed in poll-bound West Bengal to book notorious...

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Anisha Dutta

Trans Act is Only the Latest Amongst Laws That Imagine, Not Understand, Vulnerable Communities

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...

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Farhan zia

ECI Sends Notice to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Over Remark on Modi, Asks Him to 'Explain'

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...

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The Wire Staff

ECI Sends Notice to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Over Remark on Modi, Asks Him to 'Apologise'

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...

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The Wire Staff

A Farm Labourer in Jangalmahal, Rabindranath Sardar Is a Candidate on a Mission

Listen to this article: Jhargram (Bengal): Rina Shing, a landless marginal labourer and housewife from Shilda Rajar Bagan Colony in the Binpur...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Interview | Delimitation, Divisive Politics Were BJP Strategies in Tamil Nadu Polls: Madurai MP S. Venkatesan

The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which sought to increase the number of parliamentary constituencies, was defeated in Lok Sabha on April...

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Satheesh Lakshmanan

The Education of Donald Trump

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,...

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Bamo nouri and

Midnight FIRs, Undercover Police Counselling Employees: Questions Surround the 'TCS' Case

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...

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Sukanya Shantha

In Samserganj, SIR Exclusions Have Altered the Electoral Field Even Before Votes Are Cast

Listen to this article: Kolkata: Last year, Samserganj in Murshidabad’s border belt made national headlines after communal tension over the Waqf...

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Aparna Bhattacharya

No Bikes, No Tourists, No Entry to Complexes With Booths: EC Regulations Exhaust Bengal Residents

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...

wednesday 10

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Anwesha banerjee

Why Pakistan’s Diplomatic Win Need Not Be India’s Loss

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...

wednesday 10

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Rabia akhtar

The End of Naxalism, the End of Accountability

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...

wednesday 10

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Nandini Sundar

Representation, Redistribution and India’s Revised Federal Compact

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,...

wednesday 10

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Ankur singh and

US Opens Process for Trump Tariff Refunds, But Indian Exporters Unlikely to See the Benefits

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Since the US Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs imposed from April...

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The Wire Staff