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Truth, they say, has a way of wriggling out of the tightest hiding places. You can bury it under a mountain of lies, lock it in a steel vault, or...
As India celebrates its Independence Day today, it stands at a remarkable crossroads—proud of its achievements, aware of its shortcomings, and...
The Bombay High Court has ruled that an Aadhaar card, PAN card or voter’s identity card cannot be considered proof of a person’s nationality. This...
The National Sports Governance Bill 2025 passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday is a landmark moment in India’s sporting history, with its establishment...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) should be concerned that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charge of voter list manipulation in favour of the...
The Vedanta preaches the ideal; and the ideal, as we know, is always far ahead of the real, of the practical, as we may call it. There are two...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)’s August 1 ruling, relating to the safe country of origin concept, has dealt a heavy blow to...
India’s relations with the US have run into rough weather after President Donald Trump posted on the social media platform Truth Social his decision...
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has done neither his state nor his office any credit by jumping the gun on a sensitive case that demands...
"Trailing clouds of glory we come," says the poet. Not all of us come as trailing clouds of glory, however; some of us come as trailing black fogs;...
This monsoon in Mumbai is no different from many previous seasons in one respect: thousands of potholes on the city’s roads. As it happens every...
Every dog has its day, they say. And Dog Babu, a four-legged philosopher from Masaurhi subdivision near Patna, finally had his moment in the social...
Two deadly back-to-back stampedes in north India at religious events in the past few days in Haridwar and Barabanki pose the troubling question of how...
In an era marked with escalating violence due to growing regionalism and ethnic divide, which threatens to disrupt world peace at large, the news of a...
It was perhaps the greatest tragedy of the silver screen ever played in real life, the story of a troubled soul who strived to convey his struggles of...
Pakistan has been trending these days. Not because it has secured friendships with superpowers like the US, China and Russia or has managed to gain an...
There was a touch of irony as Italy’s Jannik Sinner and Poland’s Iga Swiatek won the men’s and women’s singles titles at Wimbledon, the second...
As Mumbai continues in its rhythm, the environmentalists and activists who flagged off the destruction of Aarey, in ecological terms a forest itself,...
In tabling and passing the stringent Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill in the state assembly in two days, with a controversial voice vote, the...
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement at a recent book release function to honour late RSS leader Moropant Pingle that leaders should step down when...
We are born helpless and vulnerable, and it’s wondrous how nature works through its maternal instinct to nurture us into functional beings, capable...
It’s rare for a US president to openly call the world’s richest man “off the rails” and say he is becoming “a train wreck”, but Donald...
There is euphoria in Indian cricket circles after the trouncing handed out to England in the second Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Sunday to level...
One thing is certain: the institution of the Dalai Lama will outlive the current incumbent, the 14th Dalai Lama. His recent announcement at...
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis recently made a stunning revelation in the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Over 1.07 crore investors in the state...
Whether a political chess move or good sense that prevailed, the Maharashtra government’s decision to withdraw the two Government Resolutions of...
The loss of five tigers in a single shocking incident in Karnataka’s Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary has come as a reality check,...
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said it best when he remarked that the tiny Indian flag he is carrying to space represents each of the 140 crore...
There is no doubt that the internal Emergency imposed on the country on June 25, 1975, remains a dark chapter in its post-Independence history. For 21...
India’s air safety record appears seriously jeopardised by multiple acts of omission and commission, and a lot of the rot has been exposed by the...
When Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name?” He really did not anticipate that it could carry within it a whole argument, especially in India, a...
The recent G-7 Summit at Kananaskis, Canada, may not have lit up the global stage with dramatic breakthroughs, but it managed to spark at least one...
The 60th year has a certain special significance in the Indian ethos, and its beginning is often marked by ceremonies and a sense of life’s work...
The gruesome murder of YouTuber Kanchan Kumari, also known as “Queen” and “Kamal Kaur”, has rightly shocked the nation. But what has deepened...
The Rajasthan government recently issued a directive to the state police to replace all the Urdu and Persian words currently being used in official...
Crimes of passion are as old as humanity itself. Literature, cinema, and folklore are full of tragic tales where love turns lethal. Yet, some crimes...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s pronouncement in Madurai last week that the BJP would sweep to power in Tamil Nadu in the April-May 2026 Assembly...
On June 9, Frederick Forsyth, the novelist who pioneered a genre of writing which neatly blurred the dividing line between reality and fiction, passed...
The principal message for India from the UN Population Fund’s State of World Population Report 2025 is that it needs to adopt a new paradigm towards...
The Monday morning death toll on Mumbai’s Central Railway between the far suburbs of Diva and Mumbra underscores, once again, the urgent need for...
The deadly stampede in Bengaluru during the Royal Challengers Bangalore victory celebrations has triggered police FIRs, the arrest of the team’s...
It is heartening to see Chief Justice of India BR Gavai taking proactive steps to fortify the public image of the judiciary. In the short time since...
The Centre has finally broken its prolonged silence on the next national census by announcing that the exercise will be completed by March 2027. While...
At least 36 people lost their lives in the deluge, and lakhs have been displaced, with the communities in Assam suffering the most, while Mizoram,...
The Delhi High Court’s recent judgement upholding the dismissal of a commanding officer of the Indian Army, Samuel Kamalesan, for refusing to...
The world is witnessing a tragedy of epic proportions in West Asia, but the tide is turning slowly and surely amid efforts to halt it. The relentless...
The exoneration of former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch by the Lokpal was not entirely unexpected....
It took the sagacity and legal force of the Bombay High Court to restore the dignity and academic life of a 19-year-old engineering student and make...
The brand-new 17-day-old underground metro station at Acharya Atre Chowk near Worli was inundated too and suffered damage to its systems when the...
The Indian selectors have taken a giant leap of faith in appointing young middle-order batsman Shubman Gill as captain of the team to play five Test...