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The Fabulous, Fearless Frederick Forsyth: A Fan’s Tribute To The Master Of Geopolitical Thrillers

Dr. Sandeep Goyal remembers the legendary author whose gritty realism, razor-sharp plots, and meticulous research kept generations awake through...

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Dr. Sandeep Goyal

O Gaanewali: Restoring The Legacy Of India’s Forgotten Courtesan Artistes

They were called naachne-gaanewali with derision, the tawaifs, whose place in Indian society and contribution to the performing arts are gradually...

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Deepa Gahlot

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...

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Fpj Web Desk

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,...

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Fpj Web Desk

Guiding Light: How Time Reflects Human Consciousness And Karma

Most of us would agree to the fact that in this whole world there is nothing that can escape the effect of time. Right from the time we enter...

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Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji

For Vietnam, India Can Prove To Be A Reliable Partner

The remarkable growth in goods trade between India and Vietnam over the last two decades is worth noting. Vietnam’s impressive strides in the field...

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G Chandrashekhar

Dhaka’s Politics Heats Up As Fugitive President Returns

On Friday, the country’s interim head of state, Prof. Mohammad Yunus, announced that polls will be held in April next year, disregarding demands by...

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Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

HP Governor’s Devanagari Proposal: Let India’s Linguistic Diversity Thrive

Governor Shukla is right that translation fosters wider understanding, but his push for Devanagari as a unifying script is misguided. India is home...

yesterday 10

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Fpj Editorial

FPJ Analysis: Manipur Needs Peace & Answers

The leader of the Meitei organisation Arambai Tenggol, Asem Kanan Singh, was picked up by security personnel on June 7 from Imphal West district,...

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Fpj Editorial

Will BJP Allow Estranged Thackerays And Pawars To Join Hands Ahead Of Maharashtra Civic Polls?

It seems very clear that the chances of Raj and Uddhav joining hands are very slim. Most insiders say that there is no way the cousins will come...

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Rohit Chandavarkar

Three’s A Crowd In Bihar: Tejashwi Yadav, Chirag Paswan And Prashant Kishor Gear Up For CM Showdown

Central minister Chirag Paswan has thrown the proverbial spanner in Bihar politics by expressing his desire to contest the fast-approaching state...

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Ajay Jha

Mumbai Local Train Tragedy: Mumbra Mishap Claims 4 Lives, Sparks Familiar Cycle Of Outrage & Inaction

Mumbai: Welcome to Mumbai, where every morning millions board the local train network with a prayer and a death wish. On Monday, the city’s most...

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Ketan Narottam Tanna

Choose Spiritual Wealth Over Materialism: Life Lessons From Dada J P Vaswani On Love, Detachment And Ultimate Bliss

This is a material world we live in, but we must never lose sight of the fact that we are essentially spiritual beings; our real Self is the...

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Dada J. P. Vaswani

India’s Extreme Poverty Eliminated: Now Prioritise Livelihoods And Job Creation For Sustainable Growth

The recent estimate by the World Bank says that the number of people in India living in extreme poverty declined from 344 million in 2011-12 to 75...

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Ajit Ranade

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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Fpj Web Desk

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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Fpj Web Desk

FPJ Analysis: Have Railways Reached Saturation Point?

OVERLOOKED: Most MPs have rarely shown interest in issues concerning local train commuters; passenger associations too have proved to be weak entities

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S Balakrishnan

The Latest Twist In The K-Drama

The naked power grab on that dark night, which Yoon justified on grounds of threats to national security and deployed troops to bar legislators’...

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Fpj Editorial

Trump & Musk: A Love Affair Gone Sour

However, after a whirlwind romance that landed the lovebirds at the Oval Office, the most coveted seat of power in the world, things have gone only...

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Fpj Editorial

Tamanna’s Mysore Sandal Endorsement Raises A Stink

Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd (KSDL), the owner of the Mysore Sandal brand, says in its 44th Annual Report for the year ending March 31, 2024,...

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S Murlidharan

Are Journalists Who Question Govt Narrative Anti-National?

As the fourth pillar of democracy, the role of the press is not to blindly support the government of the day and function like a caged parrot but...

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Abhay Vaidya

Central Railway Ignored Warning Of Explosive Situation On The Tracks

The report, which had pointed out that the suburban train system was running 400 times its capacity, cautioned that the situation could explode by...

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B N Kumar

Mithi, Now A River Of Scams

The centrality of this river, which runs for about 18 kilometres from the hills in the city’s north and drains out into the Arabian Sea carrying...

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Fpj Editorial

The Rate Cut Is Praiseworthy But The Challenges Persist

What does this mean going forward? The first is that there may not be any more cuts in future, as this has been frontloaded. With the RBI targeting...

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Madan Sabnavis

Bold Steps By An Emboldened RBI

The one visible fallout was the repositioning of the monetary policy stance as neutral as against the hitherto tagged label of accommodative. In...

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Fpj Editorial

Maharashtra Govt’s 2024-25 Progress Report Does Not Impress At All

Today, a similar situation has arisen in the state, given the developments on several fronts, like the safety of women, rising crimes, cases of...

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Abhay Mokashi