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Another white elephant India doesn’t need

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Ashok Swain

Is this the beginning of the end of AAP in Punjab?

Is this the beginning of the end of AAP in Punjab?

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) does seem to have a Punjab problem. Despite a spectacular victory in the assembly election—bagging 92 of 117 seats—the...

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Harjeshwar Pal Singh

The missing census: A criminal gap in things we should know—and change

The missing census: A criminal gap in things we should know—and change

The union government says that the “Indian Census is the largest single source of various statistical information on various characteristics of the...

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Aakar Patel

Why this election commission cannot be fair

Why this election commission cannot be fair

Outgoing chief election commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, who completed his term on 18 February, is unlikely to be missed. A colleague described him...

yesterday 7

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Herjinder

It's official, we are now a nation of parasites

It's official, we are now a nation of parasites

A long, long time ago when people still read books and were not educated exclusively by WhatsApp forwards or TikTok reels, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, the...

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Avay Shukla

Stand up to bullies: Lessons for Europe valid for India too

Stand up to bullies: Lessons for Europe valid for India too

Accusing Europe of following the United States slavishly for far too long, Singapore’s former permanent representative to the United Nations...

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Aj Prabal

Rahul in Rae Bareli: Fortifying the Congress with 'mohabbat, mithaas'

Rahul in Rae Bareli: Fortifying the Congress with 'mohabbat, mithaas'

As Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi engages with the local youth of Rae Bareli this evening on a two-day visit to his Parliamentary...

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Mohua G

Why Bangladesh is unable to heal itself

Why Bangladesh is unable to heal itself

It’s more than a century old, it ebbs and flows but never goes away, the conflict in Bangladesh between Bengali nationalism and assertions of...

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Ashis Ray