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Attack On Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, A Blot On Democracy

His family has tried to portray him as a dog lover angered by the municipal drive against strays. But the fact remains that the drive was not a...

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Parliament Debate: Bills Accused Of Weaponising Law To Crush Opposition

Second, the Bills threaten the delicate balance of powers between the Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary. Elected representatives are accountable...

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Mumbai Janmashtami 2025: Keeping The Govindas Safe

Dahi Handi has been among Maharashtra’s favourite festivals; its photos are displayed on tourist brochures, and spectators are dumbstruck to see the...

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FPJ Analysis: European Union’s AI Act

According to the law, the generality of AI models can be determined, among others, when models use at least a billion parameters and are trained with...

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Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan For Vice President: BJP's Trusted Man

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has outsmarted the Opposition by swiftly announcing Maharashtra governor C.P. Radhakrishnan as its...

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Election Commissioner Must Rectify, Not Retaliate

The very timing of the event — twelve days after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi had raised charges of bogus voters and coinciding with his...

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Sudarshan Chakra Mission: India's Defence Shield In A Polarised World

The immediate impetus for a scaling up of weapons systems by 2035 to protect economic and defence assets obviously comes from Operation Sindoor, but...

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GST: Way Out From A Tangled Reality

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Goods and Services Tax at midnight in July 2017, he hailed it as a “Good and Simple Tax”, a reform...

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Sholay Turns 50: Gabbar Is Back, Only To Die This Time

The lot of Thakur, Gabbar, Jai, Veeru, and Basanti will be back to regale the audiences with their antics and recreate the magic of their crisp...

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Supreme Court Saves Village Mandate

The election, held in November 2022 as part of the statewide three-phase civic polls, saw Kuldeep Singh declared the winner over Mohit Kumar by a...

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US’s Growing Influence In South Caucasus

Symbolic of the latest geopolitical reconfiguration is the move by Armenia, Russia’s traditional ally, to give Washington exclusive development...

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Banning Books, A Futile Exercise

Never before, anywhere in the world, has such a wholesale proscription of literature been carried out in one go. The police have been scouring...

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Election Comission Must Prove Neutrality

Equally troubling is the claim that these questionable entries influenced the outcome in Mahadevapura, even as neighbouring segments in the same...

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Paws, Claws And Court Laws

In the capital, the apex court took suo motu notice of incidents where stray dogs bit pedestrians, some resulting in rabies. While the concern for...

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Tamil Nadu Charts A Different Path

In 2006, Tamil Nadu also passed the Tamil Learning Act, mandating the language as a subject in all school boards in the state.

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A Jumbo Legal Tangle

. An NGO, fulfilling its divine duty of bothering the complacent, found that Madhuri was not leading the spa-like life one might expect. Her health...

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Belagavi School Poisoning: All In The Name Of Religion

Last month, the Belagavi district police in Karnataka arrested Sagara Patil, the Soundatti taluk president of Sri Ram Sene (SRS), for deliberately...

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Himalayan Tragedies On The Rise

The initial single-digit death toll appears small, and, in spite of valiant rescue efforts by the Army and disaster response forces, there are...

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From 1947 To Today: How Hate-Mongering Is Still Destroying India

Hate is a powerful and destructive emotion, and when it gets transformed into hate-mongering against an entire community, it can destroy a country. It...

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Uttarakhand Cloudburst: After Dharali Disaster, Questions Mount On Sustainable Tourism In Himalayas

The initial single-digit death toll appears small, and, in spite of valiant rescue efforts by the Army and disaster response forces, there are...

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BMC Cat Among The Mumbai Pigeons

The matter took a serious turn a day back when the Mumbai Police registered the city's first criminal case for feeding pigeons in a public space, an...

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Crime And Punishment: Prajwal Revanna Sentence To Life In Prison

Trial court judge Santosh Gajanan Bhat’s description of the case as a David and Goliath battle sums it up accurately, and his decision to award the...

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Junta Aims For International Legitimacy

Underscoring the sham declaration, General Min Aung Hlaing has anointed himself the head of the election commission for a December ballot and...

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Tamil Nadu Polls 2026: BJP, DMK Vie For Chola Legacy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent high-profile visit to Thanjavur, the ancient temple town that represents Chola culture and Tamil pride, where...

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The Deal With The US And The Fall Of The EU

The lopsided terms of the framework agreement are writ large across its many aspects, similar to the pact Britain and Japan have negotiated in recent...

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Malegaon: Who Is To Blame?

The UPA government’s claims of ‘saffron terror’ were completely rejected by the BJP dispensation. In fact, once the Modi government came to...

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Thailand-Colombia Ceasefire: Fragile Peace In Southeast Asia

Indeed, the long-standing border dispute surrounding ancient Hindu temples has served the Thai military and Cambodia’s one-party state to...

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Divya Deshmukh: Indian Chess On An All-Time High

The unprecedented events in Batumi, in Georgia, where the two Indian women featured in the summit clash of the World Championship and the much younger...

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International Court Of Justice's Ruling On Climate Change

The Hague court declaration that governments were legally liable for greenhouse gas emissions is the latest addition to the increasing volume of...

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A Government Directive On Schools Safety

Safety is the cardinal principle that should guide schooling, beginning with the trip to school, the time spent in the institution, and the journey...

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Diplomat Of Nowhere: How Conman Fooled Cops & Public By Running Fake Embassy From Ghaziabad

Ghaziabad, near Delhi, recently produced a scamster who thought bigger—much bigger. He didn’t just impersonate a government official; he became an...

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India-UK CETA: Landmark Deal With A P5 Nation, & Template For EU & US Pacts

The Indian side is celebrating the CETA, for it provides duty-free access to 99% of the country’s exports to the UK, including labour-intensive...

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PoP Idol Immersion: Bombay HC Takes A Step In The Right Direction

The Bombay HC has pushed both the Maharashtra government and millions of devotees to be more mindful of environmental concerns around the upcoming...

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India Resumes Tourist Visas For Chinese Nationals, Signalling Thaw In Ties

India’s decision to resume issuing tourist visas to Chinese nationals is a much-needed and long-overdue step in the right direction. China has...

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India-Pak Legends Call Tt Off: What WCL Fiasco Says About Cricket & Conflict

Not many would have heard of, or even bothered to follow, the WCL (World Championship of Legends) tournament in England if not for the cancellation of...

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Curbs On Kanwariyas: Uttar Pradesh Govt Bans Bats, Sticks On Kanwar Yatra Route Amid Rising Violence

The Uttar Pradesh authorities’ decision to ban the carrying of baseball bats and hockey sticks along the route of the Kanwar Yatra has been prompted...

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FPJ Analysis: AAP Exits INDIA, Blow To Opposition Unity

AAP justified its move, saying the alliance had been only for the 2024 election.

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FPJ Analysis: A Test For Judicial Probity

Only Parliament has the authority to recommend the removal of a sitting judge of the High Courts or the Supreme Court, and when rare but serious...

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A Grim Milestone In Air Crash Probe

For the first time, it has utilised its own laboratory in Delhi to decode the black box—more accurately, the orange flight data recorder—of a...

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Give Environment Greater Priority

The projects involve the construction of strategic roads, helipads, border outposts, ammunition depots, and accommodation for, among others, artillery...

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Farmers’ Plight In Maharashtra

One such figure appeared in the media on Tuesday: from January to June 2025, 520 people died by suicide in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.

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Welfare Populism Is Okay, But Not Regionalism

Alongside, the government, helmed by Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United), also announced the formation of a commission to help generate jobs for...

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FPJ Analysis: It Is Not Revision, But Exclusion

A two-judge vacation bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi has listed the matter for hearing on July 10. The urgency cannot...

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100 Years Of Guru Dutt: A Star Lost In His Own Brilliance

The legendary actor/director not only enriched the Hindi film industry repertoire through his soul-stirring stories during his life but also brought...

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A Game Of Unity, Not Reunion

Sensing a trap to diminish Marathi, the Thackerays buried their differences and energised their cadres—of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)...

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IOA: The Pakistan Conundrum

The most significant from the government’s point of view is the IOC’s firm statement that no country or individual can be barred from competing in...

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FPJ Analysis: A Bitter Pill For The Kerala Government

His allegations were latched on to by the opposition Congress that described Kerala’s public healthcare system as being on ‘ventilator support’....

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Mr Constable, The Ph.D., Rises

The Haryana Police Training Centre at Bhondsi in Gurugram district recently witnessed a remarkable moment as 783 new constables passed out.

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Bezos Extravaganza, Unwelcome Venice

The protests continued in some form through the three-day extravaganza, which had A-listers, including Hollywood stars, in attendance.

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A Custodial Death Bedevils DMK

The strong observations of the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court in the matter left little choice to the M.K. Stalin government, and the arrest...

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