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Opinion | India’s Nepal Election Tossup: Gagan Thapa’s Predictably Vs Balen Shah’s Promise

Opinion | India’s Nepal Election Tossup: Gagan Thapa’s Predictably Vs Balen Shah’s Promise

The 2015-’16 Madhesi blockade happened, with an irresponsible mainstream and social media arousing deep anti-India feelings.

06.03.2026 10

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Opinion | Why India's Perceived Israel Tilt Over Iran Is Part Of Its Bold, New Strategic Doctrine

The 'New India' is not morally obligated to pathologically side with any loser the Left prescribes. It is confidently open to warm, stable, and...

02.03.2026 9

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Opinion | Trump’s Praise May Embolden Pakistan To Plunge Deeper Into Chaos In Afghanistan

By describing Pakistan’s strikes as “self-defence” and praising its leaders, Trump has provided international cover for conflict escalation.

28.02.2026 10

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Opinion | Timing Of PM Modi’s Israel Visit Reveals India’s Bold New Diplomacy

The Prime Minister's latest visit is an unusually assertive and unapologetic public display of support for Israel and its PM, Benjamin Netanyahu

26.02.2026 10

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Opinion | SC Order On SIR Strengthens Case For West Bengal Elections Under Central Rule

Only then can people come out to vote without fear, and the booths be sanitised from being taken over by TMC goons

21.02.2026 40

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Opinion | How Yogi’s Japan And Singapore Trip Pushes UP’s Development-Plus-Hindutva Model

Yogi’s itinerary captures the BJP’s classic ideological approach to politics and governance: ambitious development on one hand, Hindutva firmly on...

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Opinion | Why The Nikhil Gupta Episode Doesn’t Humble Doval Or Discredit Indian Intel Agencies

The Opposition’s absence of patriotism apart, what the episode exposes is a lack of understanding, perhaps wilful, about how the espionage world works

19.02.2026 20

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India Watches As A Rising, Reconciliatory Jamaat Takes On BNP In Bangladesh Elections

On the India front, while Jamaat’s student allies NCP consistently bay for India’s blood, Rahman sounds pragmatic, reconciliatory, and even...

12.02.2026 10

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Opinion | In 2026, Five Elections In Volatile Neighbourhood Test India’s Influence, Pragmatism

Myanmar and Thailand just finished choosing representatives, while tumultuous Bangladesh polls are on Thursday

11.02.2026 10

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Opinion | Uttar Pradesh's Economic Survey And Parable Of The Nimble-Footed Elephant

What stands out in the survey is not just growth figures or rankings, but the transformation in the UP’s economic self-image.

11.02.2026 10

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Opinion | Alberta Separatism Is Canada’s Comeuppance For Fattening The Khalistan Beast

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...

01.02.2026 10

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Opinion | India’s Iran Fix: Why Censuring The Brutal Khamenei Regime Isn’t An Easy Option

Unpopular and seemingly confounding and amoral decisions are often the only way a nation preserves the interests of its people.

31.01.2026 10

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Opinion | America Is Setting Itself An Afghanistan-Like Trap By Backing Jamaat In Bangladesh

The Donald Trump administration is going extra miles to ruin the painstakingly built relationship with India, and a truck with Jamaat could take...

28.01.2026 10

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Opinion | This Republic Day, India Must Resolve To Drop ‘Secular’, ‘Socialist’ From Constitution

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

27.01.2026 20

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Opinion | How Rapidly Expanding National Highways Are Urbanising UP, Energising Economy

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...

27.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Begging On The Streets: Is India Ever Going To Solve Its Big, Dirty Malaise?

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...

21.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Why The Thackeray Legacy Faces Threat Of Extinction After BMC Rout

The results conclusively prove that Maharashtrians no longer look at the Thackerays as their representative voice

17.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Why Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech Is So Relevant In West Bengal Today

West Bengal seems to have forgotten its profound spiritual legacy from which sprung its fierce nationalistic instincts.

17.01.2026 30

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Opinion | Smoking Poster-Girl Of Iran To Rowling's Rebels: Imagining Symbols Of Resistance

In the Harry Potter books, Rowling’s own characters Fred and George could have perfectly blended in today’s Iran.

15.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Has An Abiding Credo: When In Doubt, Step Out (To The Streets)

Mamata strengthened the perception that she is prone to operating like a mob boss, above accountability.

13.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Seven Ways In Which SIR Shakes Mamata Banerjee’s Poll Machinery

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...

09.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Seven Political Events In India That Will Have Repercussions Beyond 2025

The year 2025 has reinforced steady ascent of the Indian Right & new nationalism in politics. With the exception of Omar Abdullah, no opposition...

01.01.2026 10

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Opinion | Jamaat’s Great Game In Bangladesh: The Islamist Force That Owned 2025

Irrespective of how many seats Jamaat wins if elections take place, it has already enjoyed 17 months of direct and indirect power & may have...

31.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Angel Chakma’s Death Proves Northeast Still Lives On Borders Of Indian Psyche

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...

30.12.2025 20

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Opinion | Bangladesh's Student 'Revolution' Is Dead. Long Live The Revolution

Once the icons of courage and sacrifice, these student leaders quickly revealed themselves as opportunistic, power-craven, and corrupt.

29.12.2025 20

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Opinion | Tarique Rahman’s Hamletian Dilemma: Avenge Awami League Or Block Jamaat?

Tarique Rahman’s return to Bangladesh after 17 years of exile places him on the brink of power. However, he faces some fraught choices.

27.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Tarique Rahman’s Tough Call: Nashta In New Delhi Or Banquet In Beijing?

Tarique is not exactly an Indophile, but those close to him vouch that he dislikes the Chinese perhaps a little more.

27.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Like Pakistan, Bangladesh Has Turned Into An Open Marketplace For Murder

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

24.12.2025 20

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Opinion | Dhurandhar Shows UP’s Journey From Fake Notes, Riots And Darkness To A Saffron Dawn

The movie is a mirror of how this hot mess of unbridled smuggling and violent communal politics kept UP backward for decades

24.12.2025 20

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Opinion | Over 2,000 Deaths, 5 Major Riots: Not Another Mosque In Babur’s Name, Please

Resurrecting the ghost of Babri in a highly communally sensitive border region like West Bengal is portentous

14.12.2025 20

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Opinion | ‘Hindu Rate Of Growth’ To ‘Cow Belt’: Why PM Modi’s Decolonisation Call Is So Prescient

Narendra Modi has been stressing on it from long before he became Prime Minister. But in his third term, decolonisation is a stated goal

08.12.2025 20

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Opinion | IndiGo Could Pay Dearly If India’s Consumer Anger Finds Collective Voice

A stranded flyer could represent thousands as the lead petitioner, seeking aggregated damages per person for agony and loss

08.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Rising Soft Power Of Hornbill Festival Must Be Tapped For Northeast’s Prosperity

The growing soft power of the Hornbill festival is an opportunity to heal and build the region

01.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Fast-Tracking Citizenship For Bangladeshi Hindus Could Alter Bengal's Poll Dynamics

The BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has decided to fast-track thousands of citizenship applications for Bangladeshi Hindus

01.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Ladakh To Delhi, PM Modi Facing Slew Of Regime Change Ops Using Gen Z

These unrests are not homegrown cyclones but lightning rods imported to fracture Bharat’s unity

29.11.2025 10

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Opinion | X’s Location Feature Exposes Congress Trolls’ Distance From Nation, Political Reality

The exposé comes across as the party’s over-dependence on external networks & volume-over-quality approach by hiring cheap overseas operators...

27.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Butterfly Effect: What Happens If India Hands Over Sheikh Hasina To Yunus Regime

It would hand legitimacy and huge popularity to the interim Muhammad Yunus government. Execution of "the fascist dictator" would become the...

24.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Ayodhya, A City Unlocked, As The Flag Of Dharma Is Set To Fly Atop Ram Mandir

Ayodhya is now not just the heart of India’s spirituality; it is slowly transforming into an economic and tourism powerhouse

22.11.2025 20

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Opinion | A Step-By-Step Guide To Sheikh Hasina’s Farcical Trial And Death Sentence

By turning the legal process into a farce, Bangladesh has only hastened its own spiral into a frenzied, Islamist anarchy

20.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Why A Jihadi Is More Dangerous When Armed With Modern Education

There are numerous examples internationally of the topmost terrorists being from wealthy, educated backgrounds

19.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Congress Promises BJP More Gifts After Bihar With Its Denial, Disconnect

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...

17.11.2025 20

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Opinion | India Must Adopt Russian Model On Terrorists’ Families In War Against Jihad

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...

14.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Rise Of India’s Sports Power Is PM Modi’s Most Underrated Feat

The government has prioritised sports as a tool to empower the youth, forge national unity, and spur economic growth

11.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Rape Gangs, Sex Rings, Teen Pregnancy: Lowering Age Of Consent Is A Slippery Slope

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...

10.11.2025 10

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Opinion | How India-US Defence Agreement Changes The Game, Mutes Trump Tantrums

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.

01.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Sheikh Hasina Interview Confirms Bangladesh Polls Without Awami League Will Be A Farce

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...

31.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Why Modi’s Not Meeting Trump Gives India A Position Of Strength In Trade Deal

There are quite a few things that Modi’s silence and elusiveness in meeting Trump at this stage achieve

27.10.2025 20

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Opinion | Max Müller To Doniger To Orsini: Why The West Sends Trojan Horses To India

Unless Bharat begins to take its own story seriously, vultures will come to feast

26.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Does Vast Russia Need More Land? A Political Geography Book Has Answers For Zelenskyy

To protect itself, Russia has needed to focus on buffer states to the west like Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States for defensive depth.

25.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Healing Begins Slow As Competing Kuki And Meitei Victimhood Divides Manipur

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...

21.10.2025 10

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