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The 2015-’16 Madhesi blockade happened, with an irresponsible mainstream and social media arousing deep anti-India feelings.
The 'New India' is not morally obligated to pathologically side with any loser the Left prescribes. It is confidently open to warm, stable, and...
By describing Pakistan’s strikes as “self-defence” and praising its leaders, Trump has provided international cover for conflict escalation.
The Prime Minister's latest visit is an unusually assertive and unapologetic public display of support for Israel and its PM, Benjamin Netanyahu
Only then can people come out to vote without fear, and the booths be sanitised from being taken over by TMC goons
Yogi’s itinerary captures the BJP’s classic ideological approach to politics and governance: ambitious development on one hand, Hindutva firmly on...
The Opposition’s absence of patriotism apart, what the episode exposes is a lack of understanding, perhaps wilful, about how the espionage world works
On the India front, while Jamaat’s student allies NCP consistently bay for India’s blood, Rahman sounds pragmatic, reconciliatory, and even...
Myanmar and Thailand just finished choosing representatives, while tumultuous Bangladesh polls are on Thursday
What stands out in the survey is not just growth figures or rankings, but the transformation in the UP’s economic self-image.
Why does the West continue to expect that the world must take its problems seriously while it makes light of the non-western world’s serious...
Unpopular and seemingly confounding and amoral decisions are often the only way a nation preserves the interests of its people.
The Donald Trump administration is going extra miles to ruin the painstakingly built relationship with India, and a truck with Jamaat could take...
It is not a matter of semantics. It is a matter of self-identity. It is how India of the present and future must define itself
UP has recorded a big expansion of its National Highway network over the last decade under CM Yogi Adityanath, growing by 34 per cent and crossing the...
No surge in GDP or place in the top five or three economies of the world can play down the inglorious sight of children made to openly beg on the...
The results conclusively prove that Maharashtrians no longer look at the Thackerays as their representative voice
West Bengal seems to have forgotten its profound spiritual legacy from which sprung its fierce nationalistic instincts.
In the Harry Potter books, Rowling’s own characters Fred and George could have perfectly blended in today’s Iran.
Mamata strengthened the perception that she is prone to operating like a mob boss, above accountability.
With SIR deleting more than 58 lakh names so far (7.6 per cent of the state’s electorate) and ten of lakhs of names under review, TMC may find it...
The year 2025 has reinforced steady ascent of the Indian Right & new nationalism in politics. With the exception of Omar Abdullah, no opposition...
Irrespective of how many seats Jamaat wins if elections take place, it has already enjoyed 17 months of direct and indirect power & may have...
The fact that an Angel has to die proving his Bharatiya identity even today points to a systemic failure in education, poor parenting & dire need...
Once the icons of courage and sacrifice, these student leaders quickly revealed themselves as opportunistic, power-craven, and corrupt.
Tarique Rahman’s return to Bangladesh after 17 years of exile places him on the brink of power. However, he faces some fraught choices.
Tarique is not exactly an Indophile, but those close to him vouch that he dislikes the Chinese perhaps a little more.
By getting rid of the rule of law as a prerequisite to building an Islamist state, Bangladesh has unwittingly put a target on its own back
The movie is a mirror of how this hot mess of unbridled smuggling and violent communal politics kept UP backward for decades
Resurrecting the ghost of Babri in a highly communally sensitive border region like West Bengal is portentous
Narendra Modi has been stressing on it from long before he became Prime Minister. But in his third term, decolonisation is a stated goal
A stranded flyer could represent thousands as the lead petitioner, seeking aggregated damages per person for agony and loss
The growing soft power of the Hornbill festival is an opportunity to heal and build the region
The BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has decided to fast-track thousands of citizenship applications for Bangladeshi Hindus
These unrests are not homegrown cyclones but lightning rods imported to fracture Bharat’s unity
The exposé comes across as the party’s over-dependence on external networks & volume-over-quality approach by hiring cheap overseas operators...
It would hand legitimacy and huge popularity to the interim Muhammad Yunus government. Execution of "the fascist dictator" would become the...
Ayodhya is now not just the heart of India’s spirituality; it is slowly transforming into an economic and tourism powerhouse
By turning the legal process into a farce, Bangladesh has only hastened its own spiral into a frenzied, Islamist anarchy
There are numerous examples internationally of the topmost terrorists being from wealthy, educated backgrounds
Winning six of the 61 seats it contested has not only left the Congress remorseless, but even more recalcitrant as it has doubled down on its...
Jihadis break every rule in the book. But when the fear that their families may pay dearly for harbouring or helping them is drilled in, the game...
The government has prioritised sports as a tool to empower the youth, forge national unity, and spur economic growth
Debate rages over the proposal to reduce the age of consent from 18 to 16 under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Section 63...
India could emerge as the US's arsenal foundry, with America giving defence manufacturing contracts to India like F-414 engines and MQ-9 drones.
A despotic and blanket ban on the Awami League (AL) is looking increasingly vengeful, self-serving, and untenable on the part of Yunus and his...
There are quite a few things that Modi’s silence and elusiveness in meeting Trump at this stage achieve
Unless Bharat begins to take its own story seriously, vultures will come to feast
To protect itself, Russia has needed to focus on buffer states to the west like Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States for defensive depth.
Kukis are so afraid to enter the Meitei zone that instead of using the Imphal airport, which is just over an hour away, they travel 12–13 hours to...