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Opinion | West Bengal Violence Is Straight Out Of Islamists’ Direct Action Day Playbook

Opinion | West Bengal Violence Is Straight Out Of Islamists’ Direct Action Day Playbook

Protests have broken out in politically chaotic Bangladesh against the Waqf issue in India, reactivating the Islamist umbilical cord still running...

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Opinion | Aspirations Over Appeasement: PM Modi Decodes Politics Of New India At Rising Bharat 2025

Opinion | Aspirations Over Appeasement: PM Modi Decodes Politics Of New India At Rising Bharat 2025

At 74, Narendra Modi knows that he must listen to the new India for his politics and ideas to stay young

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Opinion | Trump Tariffs On India: Cheaper Bourbon And A Rich World Of Opportunities

Opinion | Trump Tariffs On India: Cheaper Bourbon And A Rich World Of Opportunities

The Trump administration may have slapped tariffs on India as some sort of equaliser for the country's high tariff card for most US products, but...

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Opinion | Passing Waqf Despite Coalition, PM Modi Proves Bold Decisions Will Not Stop

Opinion | Passing Waqf Despite Coalition, PM Modi Proves Bold Decisions Will Not Stop

The Waqf amendments are probably a bigger civilisational reform than lifting Article 370 from J&K because their impact is direct and nationwide

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Opinion | Why Did Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra Evade Waqf Bill Debate?

Opinion | Why Did Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra Evade Waqf Bill Debate?

Insiders say that Rahul — and most likely Priyanka as well — was advised by close aides to desist from delivering a fiery defence of the old Waqf...

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Opinion | Mothabari, Jhaubona Signal Another Blood Storm In West Bengal Before 2026 Elections

Opinion | Mothabari, Jhaubona Signal Another Blood Storm In West Bengal Before 2026 Elections

Almost every year, Ram Navami and other Hindu festivals invite fresh waves of jihadist violence in West Bengal. But just about a year ahead of the...

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Opinion | Studio Ghibli And Snow White: Why Japan, Korea Best The West In Pop Culture

Opinion | Studio Ghibli And Snow White: Why Japan, Korea Best The West In Pop Culture

The West's influence, once wielded by Disney's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, is in decline. It is because American and European studios have...

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Opinion | Kunal’s Karma And Why Free Speech Absolutism Will Not Work For India

Words must be weighed by adults before being spoken. And once the arrow is released, its consequences must be weighed. The archer cannot simply walk...

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Opinion | When Toys Trigger Nationalism, Outrage, And Spooky Geopolitical Games

The latest edition of the video game Assassin’s Creed, ‘Shadows’, has rocked Japan. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has lambasted the game,...

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Opinion | PM Modi & Snatches Of Plato’s Philosopher-Ruler In Lex Fridman Podcast

The prime minister copiously used metaphors, analogy, deductive and inductive reasoning, argumentation, and problem-solving approaches, which provided...

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Opinion | Time Is Ripe For A Delhi-NCR Drive To Deport Illegal Bangladeshis, Rohingyas

Currently, the BJP has a government in every state in NCR—Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana. It runs the national government at the Centre. All this...

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Opinion | Kashmir Regresses Over Gulmarg Fashion Show As Saudi Embraces Modernity

Unless Kashmir rises from its cloistered and violent baggage of Islamism and embraces modernity, all the splendid roads, tunnels, and railway bridges...

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Opinion | Bangladesh Islamists Start Caliphate Demand; Army Or Anarchy Next?

A period of Army rule, followed by an election involving the BNP, Awami League, Jatiya Party, Jamaat, and all political stakeholders, increasingly...

10.03.2025 10

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Opinion | Jaishankar Attack: India Must Make It Costly For UK To Host Khalistan Movement

The UK has to start bearing the consequences of harbouring anti-India groups and movements. One would have thought a semblance of introspection and...

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Hear The Drumbeats From India’s Forests — Our Wildlife Is Booming

India’s jungles are growing, while not swamping the nation’s road to business and enterprise. And India’s industry, on its part, has not been...

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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Scores Self-Goal By Stirring Up Voters’ List Issue

If there is indeed brutal scrutiny of the West Bengal voters’ list, it may weed out a large chunk of her devoted voters

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Opinion | DMK’s War Against Hindi: Divorcing Logic, Marrying Prejudice

Given DMK and the Periyar ideology’s long history of attacking Sanatana Dharma and tireless efforts to keep the artificial North-South divide alive...

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Opinion | Modi Started India’s Own DOGE A Decade Ago, But Chainsaw Needed For Bureaucracy Now

Modi government’s quiet and effective drive predated Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s ongoing spectacle to save cost and increase efficiency by 10...

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Opinion | Why Assam Is Such A Crucial Piece In BJP’s Blueprint, PM Modi’s Vision

Assam is being revived and reclaimed. It may not be as dramatic and lightning-quick as Lachit Borphukan’s slaying of the Mughals on the Brahmaputra...

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Opinion | India-Pakistan Cricket Rivalry Is Dead, As We Are No Longer 'Rivals'

India versus Pakistan is today a battle of unequals. A fight with a foregone outcome. There is just the nostalgia of rivalry

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Opinion | FOMO To Reel Filters To Faith: Why Maha Kumbh Is Drawing Gen Z

The sheer number of selfies and shorts on social media suggests there is a steep spike in interest among very young adults

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Opinion | New Waqf Bill Is Civilisational Reform, Benefits Women, Pasmandas, Shias, Ahmadis

The new Waqf Bill, if passed in Parliament, will turn the clock on perhaps the worst legislation of independent India

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Opinion | Joining The Dots: USAID, Pop Culture, Idea Of ‘Cool’, And Ranveer Allahbadia

DOGE is exposing the Deep State’s dark purse. We need to uncover how those dollars silently waft into our collective consciousness to tear us...

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Opinion | Why Did Winning Delhi Matter So Much For PM Modi And BJP?

Delhi provides the perfect topping for its performances in Haryana and Maharashtra and gives it great momentum for Bihar later this year

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Opinion | PM Modi Hints He Will Keep Working Beyond 2029, Till He Walks Into History

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Opinion | Waqf And Illegal Immigration Bills In Budget Session May Polarise Delhi Election

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Opinion | Why It May Be Much Tougher For Kejriwal’s AAP In The Delhi Election

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Opinion | India Desperately Needs Swachh Bharat 2.0, Strongly Focused On Cities

10.01.2025 8

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Opinion | Germany To Iran To Bangladesh: 10 Nations And Regions To Watch In 2025

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Opinion | Congress Scores Self-Goal By Unpacking Ambedkar And Its Own Demons

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Opinion | Rahul Or Priyanka, Which Gandhi Will Ultimately Prevail In Congress?

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Opinion | As Islamists Butcher Bangladeshi Hindus, India Has Many Cards To Play

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Opinion | Modi, Fadnavis, RSS, And A Yogi Slogan: How BJP Got Back In The Maharashtra Game

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Opinion | How Kamala Harris And The Far-Left Went To War With Common Sense And Lost

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Opinion | Why A Donald Trump Win Will Be Good For America, India, And The World

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Opinion | West Can’t Pass Off Khalistan As Freedom Of Speech Issue; It Is About Terror

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Opinion | Bahraich Violence and a Brief History of Recent Attacks on Hindu Festivals

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: October 18, 2024, 16:33 IST New Delhi, India The brutality in Bahraich has rocked into...

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Opinion | Love and Grief for Ratan Tata Shatter ‘Majoritarian’ Narrative Against India

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: October 11, 2024, 10:52 IST New Delhi, India The outpouring of grief across ideological lines...

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Opinion | Haryana Results: The Great BJP Turnaround and Congress’ Refusal to Learn from Mistakes

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: October 09, 2024, 10:18 IST New Delhi, India Most Indian pollsters believe that the BJP tends...

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Opinion | Why October 7 Is Even Bigger Than 9/11, And Israel’s Fight Is So Important

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: October 07, 2024, 20:29 IST New Delhi, India Israeli soldiers standing atop a main battle...

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Opinion | Iran’s Attack on Israel May End Ayatollah Khamenei's Regime, But World War 3 is Unlikely

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: October 02, 2024, 17:28 IST New Delhi, India Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office leads the prayer,...

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Opinion | Waqf to Bangladesh: Five Big Challenges Modi 3.0 Faces in Next 100 Days

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 10:27 IST New Delhi, India The next hundred days will be a lot more...

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OPINION | RSS to Sikhs to China, A Fact-check of Rahul Gandhi’s Claims in The US

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: September 11, 2024, 10:24 IST New Delhi, India Congress scion Rahul Gandhi’s utterances on...

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Opinion | Is India Ready to Deal With the New March of Islamism in Bangladesh?

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: August 30, 2024, 10:08 IST New Delhi, India Students chant slogans near a vandalised mural of...

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OPINION | CBI Probe in Kolkata Doctor's Death May Expose A Much Bigger, Darker Truth

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: August 17, 2024, 22:04 IST New Delhi, India People take part in a torch rally to protest...

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Opinion | What Bangladesh Meltdown Means for India: Five Hard Lessons

Written By: Abhijit Majumder News18.com Last Updated: August 09, 2024, 10:19 IST New Delhi, India Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh's...

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