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Blue Star gets temporary relief as Delhi HC stays regulator’s e-waste price declaration

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

Mann Ki Baat, Yoga Day, Ram Mandir: Inside Modi govt’s media advisory playbook

In 2002, Narendra Modi sat across Jill McGivering from the BBC for an interview. It was shortly after the Gujarat riots, and McGivering asked Modi...

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Astha Savyasachi

‘Raid madam’ to BJP councillor: The story of Kerala’s first woman IPS officer

Years ago, while she was still in the police force, R Sreelekha walked into a sari sale in Thiruvananthapuram. Spotting the other women there, she...

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Cris

Satellite images show how cities are heating up

Between 2003 and 2020, India's cities warmed at 0.53°C per decade –double the rate of the rest of the country. Satellite imagery reveals this...

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Priyanka Thirumurthy

Decoding Zoho's Sridhar Vembu: The software czar who became the Sangh's Swadeshi mascot

PROLOGUE The opening paragraph of a January 2021 article in the Organiser, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece, is striking in its...

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Indulekha Aravind

Vembu’s lawyer claims $1.7 billion bond order ‘invalid’, Pramila’s lawyer says it remains in force

On January 8, 2026, The News Minute published  an exclusive story  reporting a California court’s order directing Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu to...

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Indulekha Aravind

BJP with Congress, NCP factions against their allies: Welcome to Pune’s political freak show

There is an old political cliché about there being no permanent friends or enemies in politics, only permanent interests. In Pune right now, that...

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Prateek Goyal