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India In Orbit: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Becomes First Indian On ISS With 30 Scientific Missions In Historic Spaceflight

India In Orbit: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Becomes First Indian On ISS With 30 Scientific Missions In Historic Spaceflight

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...

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Emergency and Aftermath: Why June 25 Must Be Remembered With Historical Balance, Not Political Weaponisation

Emergency and Aftermath: Why June 25 Must Be Remembered With Historical Balance, Not Political Weaponisation

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...

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DGCA’s Surprise Audits Expose Deep Flaws In Indian Aviation Safety; Urgent Need For Transparent, Zero-Tolerance Oversight

DGCA’s Surprise Audits Expose Deep Flaws In Indian Aviation Safety; Urgent Need For Transparent, Zero-Tolerance Oversight

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...

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What’s In A Name? CBFC’s Ban On ‘Janaki Vs State Of Kerala’ Ignores Sita’s Real Strength And Feminist Legacy

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...

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Cold Summit, Warm Ties: Modi-Carney Meeting Rekindles India-Canada Relations At G-7

Cold Summit, Warm Ties: Modi-Carney Meeting Rekindles India-Canada Relations At G-7

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...

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60 Years Of Shiv Sena: Identity Crisis Looms As Legacy Battle Between Uddhav Thackeray And Eknath Shinde Deepens

60 Years Of Shiv Sena: Identity Crisis Looms As Legacy Battle Between Uddhav Thackeray And Eknath Shinde Deepens

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...

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Kanchan Kumari Murder: A Crime To Be Condemned, Not Justified — No Place For Violence Or Clerical Endorsement

Kanchan Kumari Murder: A Crime To Be Condemned, Not Justified — No Place For Violence Or Clerical Endorsement

The gruesome murder of YouTuber Kanchan Kumari, also known as “Queen” and “Kamal Kaur”, has rightly shocked the nation. But what has deepened...

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Root Of The Language Problem: Why Replacing Urdu Terms Won’t Simplify Justice

The Rajasthan government recently issued a directive to the state police to replace all the Urdu and Persian words currently being used in official...

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Love, Lies And Murder: The Shocking Honeymoon Killing Of Raja Raghuvanshi

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...

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BJP’s 2026 Tamil Nadu Ambitions Face Ground Realities And Alliance Challenges

BJP’s 2026 Tamil Nadu Ambitions Face Ground Realities And Alliance Challenges

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...

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Legendary Thriller Author Frederick Forsyth Dies At 86; Creator Of 'The Day Of The Jackal' Leaves Behind Enduring Legacy

On June 9, Frederick Forsyth, the novelist who pioneered a genre of writing which neatly blurred the dividing line between reality and fiction, passed...

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UNFPA Report 2025 Urges India To Prioritise Women’s Empowerment And Public Health Over Market Solutions

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...

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Mumbai Local Train Deaths: How Many More Lives Before Railways Act?

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...

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Bengaluru RCB Stampede: A Wake-Up Call On India’s Crowd Control Failures

The deadly stampede in Bengaluru during the Royal Challengers Bangalore victory celebrations has triggered police FIRs, the arrest of the team’s...

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Chief Justice BR Gavai’s Reforms Boost Judiciary Transparency And Accountability In India

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...

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India Census 2027: Digital Enumeration To Include Caste Data After 16 Years, Impacting Politics And Delimitation

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...

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Northeast India Faces Devastating Floods As Assam And Other States Reel Under Extreme Monsoon Rainfall

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,...

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Delhi High Court Upholds Army Officer’s Dismissal: Discipline Over Personal Faith In Indian Armed Forces

The Delhi High Court’s recent judgement upholding the dismissal of a commanding officer of the Indian Army, Samuel Kamalesan, for refusing to...

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Gaza Crisis Mounts: Israel Faces Growing Global Pushback Over Humanitarian Fallout

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...

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Madhabi Puri Buch Cleared By Lokpal: What It Means For SEBI, Adani And Public Trust

The exoneration of former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch by the Lokpal was not entirely unexpected....

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Student Or Criminal? Bombay HC Questions Maharashtra Police Over Arrest Of Pune Engineering Student

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...

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Mumbai’s New Aqua Line Metro Floods In Monsoon Downpour, Raising Questions On Infrastructure Preparedness

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...

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Captain Shubman Gill Dons The Crown Of Thorns As India’s Youngest Test Leader

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...

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Bihar Political Crisis: Lalu Prasad Yadav Expels Son Tej Pratap Yadav From RJD Amid Election Turmoil

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad swiftly expelled elder son and Hasanpur MLA Tej Pratap Yadav from the party for six years on May 25,...

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Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To Ashoka University Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad Amid Free Speech Debate

The release on interim bail by the top court of Ashoka University assistant professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad came as a welcome relief, but his arrest...

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Heart Lamp By Banu Mushtaq Wins International Booker Prize 2025, Elevating Kannada Literature On Global Stage

It is a crowning moment for Indian, especially Kannada, literature that Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the International Booker Prize 2025. This...

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Operation Sindoor: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri Refutes 'Warning To Pakistan' Claim, Highlights India’s Diplomatic Response To Pahalgam Terror Attack

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s recent briefing to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor,...

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Pimpri-Chinchwad's Mula Riverfront Project A ‘Disaster In Making’, Warns Waterman Rajendra Singh; Cites Ecological Risk And Corruption Nexus

The Mula Riverfront Development (RFD) Project, first proposed under the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, was shelved after strong opposition from...

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Madhya Pradesh: Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah Must Resign After 'Terrorist Sister' Slur Against Colonel Sofia Qureshi, Says MP High Court

Madhya Pradesh Tribal Affairs Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has forfeited his moral and constitutional right to remain in office. His appalling remark...

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India’s Generosity Met With Turkey’s Bitterness: Diplomatic Strains Amid Trade And Tourism Ties

For a country that has long benefited from Indian generosity, whether in times of disaster or diplomacy, Turkey seems to have developed a surprisingly...

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Operation Sindoor: PM Modi Declares New Doctrine, Warns Pakistan Of Swift Retaliation For Cross-Border Terror

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation following the conclusion of Operation Sindoor was not merely a post-conflict summary. It was a...

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Kerala Congress Revamp: Sunny Joseph Named KPCC Chief To Woo Christians Ahead Of 2026 Assembly Polls

The slew of appointments in the Congress in Kerala is being seen as a move to revamp the state unit ahead of the crucial local body polls and Assembly...

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Two Down In Indian Test Squad: Virat Kohli And Rohit Sharma Announce Retirement After Australia Setback

The announcements in rapid succession from both incumbent captain Rohit Sharma and his predecessor, Virat Kohli, of their retirements from Test...

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Cracks Emerge In Post-War Germany’s Politics Amid Unprecedented Bundestag Vote Drama

The unprecedented bombshell Bundestag vote on Tuesday that briefly paused the confirmation of Friedrich Merz as Germany’s new chancellor spotlights...

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CPI(M) Partners With Gautam Adani For Kerala’s Vizhinjam Port Project, Overlooking Historical Opposition

More loyal than the king, that is the banner the CPI(M)-led government in Kerala was seen holding, with visible pride, during the commissioning of the...

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Institute Of Creative Technology: India’s Gateway To The Global Creative Economy

The excitement about India’s creative economy, specifically its enormous potential, has been rekindled after the mega-starrer event in Mumbai this...

04.05.2025 10

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Ukraine-US Minerals Deal May Pave The Way For End To Russia-Ukraine War, The Longest In Europe In 80 Years

The Ukraine-US minerals deal struck on Wednesday pursuant to fraught negotiations for months raises the prospects for a peace process to end the...

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Canada-US Ties: Mark Carney’s Liberal Party Win In Canada Is A Stinging Rebuke To US President Donald Trump’s Tariff Threats

Canada’s stinging electoral rebuke of America’s populist and punitive tariffs and threats to the nation’s sovereignty, exactly within 100 days...

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IPL 2025: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, The Boy-Wonder From Bihar, Must Not Get Distracted By The Praise Being Showered On Him

Master opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar was famed for his timing on the field. And his column in the latest issue of a sports magazine could not have...

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Delhi Sultanate And Mughal Erasure From NCERT Textbooks: Consequences Of Distorting India's Cultural Identity

What had been in the offing has finally come true. The Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals have officially been ousted from Class 7 NCERT textbooks. And...

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Kashmir Bulldozer Action After Pahalgam Terror Attack: Risks Of lienating Locals and Fueling Communal Divide

The bulldozer action against homes of militants in Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people and left several...

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Pahalgam Terror Attack: 28 Tourists Killed, Kashmir Stands United Against Terrorism And Communal Divide

The horrific killing of 28 tourists and the injuring of many more in Pahalgam, Kashmir, is a grim reminder that terrorism is not merely an act of...

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UPSC Civil Services Results Highlight Alarmingly Low Muslim Representation: Urgent Need For Inclusive Education And Support

The results of the latest UPSC Civil Services Examination have once again brought to light a glaring anomaly — the chronic under-representation of...

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Pope Francis Passes Away At 88: Remembering The Humble, Courageous Leader Who Redefined The Papacy With Simplicity And Compassion

With the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the world has lost a truly unique and humble leader. Many had not expected much when the Argentinian...

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An Unworthy Emulation: Maharashtra’s Lottery Panel Should Learn From Kerala’s Welfare, Not Gambling

The Maharashtra government’s recent decision to constitute a 10-member all-party committee to study the Kerala State Lottery system is, to put it...

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IPL 2025: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli And MS Dhoni Struggle As Toxic Fandom And Ageing Icons Challenge Franchise Marketing

India’s captain Rohit Sharma is having a horror run at Mumbai Indians while Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli, too, is struggling for...

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Tamil Nadu: CM MK Stalin Faces Political Setback As Senior Ministers' Gender-Insensitive Remarks Threaten 2026 Election Strategy

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is preparing for a keenly anticipated Assembly election in 2026 that he wants to fight on the strength of an...

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Weaponising Law Enforcement: ED's Chargesheet Against Sonia And Rahul Gandhi Signals Political Crackdown

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in what is known as the National Herald money-laundering case....

18.04.2025 20

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Tamil Nadu Forms High-Level Committee On Centre-State Relations, Led By Kurian Joseph, To Strengthen State Autonomy

Tamil Nadu’s move to form a high-level committee on centre-state relations headed by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph is a resolute move...

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Donald Trump’s Trade Tariffs: Reckless Stunt That Shakes Global Economy And Erodes Trust

In the space of just ten days, American president Donald Trump has laid bare the depth of his ignorance and the height of his arrogance. His dramatic...

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