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Bangladesh On The Brink

Bangladesh On The Brink

Das, a 27-year-old Hindu garment worker earning $150 a month, was accused after a workplace discussion of making an offensive remark. The police...

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Salim Durani: A Life With An Unusual Beginning And A Really Sad End

Durani’s life had an unusual beginning and a sad end, and in between there were grey areas that challenged anyone trying to trace the life and...

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Britons Are No Phoenix

Britons Are No Phoenix

At the heart of this debacle lay the pig-headed attitude towards the hell-for-leather style of cricket which the coach, former New Zealand captain...

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Guiding Light: Chaitanya Swarupam

Guiding Light: Chaitanya Swarupam

We easily appreciate our existence in terms of physical body. It is the easiest one to feel and prove. The next level is the energy. As GOD is driving...

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Why Oman Holds Strategic Significance For India's West Asia Ambitions

Why Oman Holds Strategic Significance For India's West Asia Ambitions

Prime Minister Modi’s second visit to Oman resulted in signing two key agreements: the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and a...

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Elephants Vs Infrastructure: Assam Train Accident Exposes Gaps In Wildlife Safety Measures

Elephants Vs Infrastructure: Assam Train Accident Exposes Gaps In Wildlife Safety Measures

A train near Guwahati, Assam, collided with a herd of wild Asiatic elephants, killing at least seven and injuring a calf. The site isn’t a...

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National Herald Case: Court Relief For Gandhis Puts ED's PMLA Record Under Scanner

National Herald Case: Court Relief For Gandhis Puts ED's PMLA Record Under Scanner

A Delhi court’s refusal to take cognisance of the ED’s PMLA chargesheet in the National Herald case has given temporary relief to Sonia and Rahul...

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Elections & Ethics: Why Two Sports Ministers Stepped Down In Maharashtra & West Bengal

Elections & Ethics: Why Two Sports Ministers Stepped Down In Maharashtra & West Bengal

Two sports ministers resigned within a day, spotlighting rare political accountability ahead of elections. West Bengal’s Aroop Biswas quit after...

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Pakistan Exposed, Terror Proven

Pakistan Exposed, Terror Proven

The NIA has filed a 1,597-page chargesheet within eight months into the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, highlighting swift investigation. The probe...

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Old Wine In A New Bottle

Old Wine In A New Bottle

The Centre plans to rename MGNREGA as VB-GRAM-G, raising guaranteed workdays to 125 but shifting more costs to states. Critics say it mirrors past...

17.12.2025 10

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Data Centres In Space: When The Sun Powers The Cloud

Data Centres In Space: When The Sun Powers The Cloud

A radical idea is moving from the fringes to serious boardrooms and laboratories worldwide: data centres in space. What sounds like science fiction...

17.12.2025 9

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Left Loses Kerala Ground

Left Loses Kerala Ground

Anti-incumbency played its part, but it was compounded by a series of controversies that the government failed to convincingly address. Allegations...

15.12.2025 10

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Kolkata’s Messi Mess And TMC

Kolkata’s Messi Mess And TMC

From the immortal Brazilian Pele to the legendary Argentine genius Diego Maradona and many others in between, including Messi himself, who had earlier...

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End Shadows Over Democracy

End Shadows Over Democracy

As political ripostes go, Shah’s interventions were clever, well-aimed and rhetorically effective. Gandhi, by contrast, had little new to add beyond...

13.12.2025 10

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Claims And Counter-Claims

Claims And Counter-Claims

After his release, Savarkar never again raised his voice against British rule. His subsequent ideological positions—particularly his advocacy of...

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Justice At Crossroads In Kochi

Justice At Crossroads In Kochi

The court faulted the prosecution for failing to establish conspiracy and instigation against Dileep beyond reasonable doubt. Yet, it held that the...

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Shrinking Parliament, Shrinking Debates

Shrinking Parliament, Shrinking Debates

Elections demand enormous expenditure. Maintaining the Parliament Secretariat, paying salaries and perks to members, and extending pensions to retired...

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An Inferno Foretold

An Inferno Foretold

There is no reason to expect that the script will be different in the fire that occurred in Goa last week, in a nightclub of a popular and...

10.12.2025 9

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Cheetahs On The Road To Nowhere

Cheetahs On The Road To Nowhere

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be dismayed at the trend. He marked International Cheetah Day, just a day before the first cub’s death, with the...

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Stopping Acid Attacks

Stopping Acid Attacks

Shocked at the slow pace at which the horrific crime predominantly affecting women is dealt with, a two-judge bench presided over by Chief Justice of...

09.12.2025 10

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Putin Visit: A Tough Balancing Act

Putin Visit: A Tough Balancing Act

For Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s airport welcome, with a warm hug and a handshake, and the ride with the PM to his residence for a private...

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Indigo Crisis: Turbulence In The Air

Indigo Crisis: Turbulence In The Air

IndiGo must take the blame for this state of affairs, as it was well aware that the new Flight Duty Time Limitation rules (FDTL) mandated by the civil...

07.12.2025 10

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Justice For Hany, At Last!

Justice For Hany, At Last!

Babu was in prison for five years and seven months, which the HC division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and RR Bhonsale termed an infringement of the...

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King Kohli Still Reigns

King Kohli Still Reigns

Public memory is short. It was in fact just six weeks back in Adelaide that Sharma and Kohli were involved in an unbeaten century stand in the third...

06.12.2025 4

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Guiding Light: The Unapologetic Hindu

Guiding Light: The Unapologetic Hindu

These achievements, along with political developments like the process to identify Indian citizens as voters, have been received enthusiastically by...

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Justice Restores Teachers’ Dignity

Justice Restores Teachers’ Dignity

The judgement fell like a thunderbolt. Soon after, the judge resigned from the Bench, contested elections on a BJP ticket, and entered Parliament. In...

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A Dog At Democracy’s Door

A Dog At Democracy’s Door

For the first time in living memory, a member of the canine species came close to enjoying parliamentary privilege, albeit only in the premises and...

05.12.2025 10

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No Saathi For Govt On Sanchar

No Saathi For Govt On Sanchar

While the intention, as the government has been at pains to explain, is to benefit the public at large—IMEI verification, blocking or blacklisting...

05.12.2025 10

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Integrity Crucial For SIR

The numbers alone are staggering. Revising and verifying over 500 million entries on electoral rolls cannot be done in a hurry without compromising...

03.12.2025 9

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Sadhugram At The Cost Of Nature

The Tapovan forest, along the Godavari River, is not only the heartbeat of the rapidly expanding city of Nashik but also carries the ancient...

03.12.2025 10

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Trump: Contradictions In Motion

Maduro’s continuance in office is certainly untenable. But the larger question remains: what right does the United States have to blockade an entire...

02.12.2025 10

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Temporary Truce In Karnataka

Karnataka is among the three states where the Congress is still in power, a far cry from its pan-India dominance of earlier times, and it is important...

02.12.2025 10

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Online Regulation Without Censorship

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, while hearing a batch of cases that cover offensive content, expressed surprise that anyone could start a YouTube...

30.11.2025 10

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42 Years On, Wounds Of Nellie Resurface

The Assam government appointed the Tiwary Commission, headed by Justice Tribhuvan Prasad Tiwary, retired judge of the Gauhati High Court, under the...

30.11.2025 10

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Nitish, Perform Or Perish

The JD(U) won 85 seats—almost double its previous tally—with a strike rate comparable to the BJP’s. When the BJP had conceded the chief...

25.11.2025 10

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Rules Are Key To Labour Codes

Making big changes, the Codes on Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions seek to lend...

25.11.2025 10

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Governors Need A Code Of Conduct

The ruling overturns the earlier two-judge decision in the Tamil Nadu case, which had held that prolonged inaction by a governor amounted to “deemed...

23.11.2025 10

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Juvenile Justice Faces Roadblocks

The aim to decentralise the juvenile justice system has backfired, as children continue to languish in captivity like undertrial prisoners in the...

23.11.2025 10

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Another Decisive Blow To Red Terror

Hidma, the elusive CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member, was said to have been behind 26 of the deadliest Naxal attacks, including the Dantewada...

21.11.2025 10

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Railways Must Act Responsibly

The ill-fated Shravan Gupta, 23, died in May 2013 when he was headed to Maihar but boarded a wrong train and attempted to alight it while it was in...

21.11.2025 10

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When Faith Meets Tragedy

What should have been a time of fulfilment and spiritual serenity turned, in a matter of minutes, into a scene of unimaginable devastation. Saudi...

20.11.2025 10

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Hasina Verdicts Tests India

The verdict, delivered by the International Crimes Tribunal after its provisions were controversially amended by the current dispensation, has...

20.11.2025 10

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Greening Nepal’s Election Campaign

The major elements of the code include the use of electric vehicles in place of conventional ones, prioritising digital campaigning, the use of...

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Menstrual Leave Not Anti-Feminist

While the policy leaves out, inexplicably and controversially, millions of women working in the informal sector—often with fewer facilities, such as...

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A Mandate Too Clear To Misread

When the state recorded a high voter turnout, many analysts rushed to conclude that the figure reflected a deep anti-incumbency mood. However, the...

16.11.2025 10

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India’s 10/11, A Wake-Up Call

The horrific images of mangled vehicles and terrified bystanders have rekindled painful memories of an era when serial blasts were grimly routine.

13.11.2025 8

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Women’s Quota Deferred, Justice Denied

The government’s explanation is that the law will come into force only after the next census and the subsequent delimitation of constituencies.

13.11.2025 8

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Brief Winter Session Irks Opposition

Recent Parliament sittings have been stormy, marked by disruptions and adjournments, with the Opposition benches charging the government with failing...

11.11.2025 9

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Turkey’s Bold, Futile Gesture

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, facing growing domestic discontent and criticism over his own human rights record, is adept at using...

11.11.2025 10

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Red Rules Once Again In JNU

The Left’s convincing victory can be attributed to the fact that it fought on a united platform, unlike in the previous election. The victory of the...

10.11.2025 10

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