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DeepSeek: Two Questions at the Heart of the AI Offering that Has Rattled the World

DeepSeek: Two Questions at the Heart of the AI Offering that Has Rattled the World

New Delhi: A generative artificial intelligence platform developed by Chinese maker DeepSeek has seemingly rattled the US-led world of AI, with new...

yesterday 10

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The Wire Staff

A Delhi Divided: The 2025 Polls Show the Rich Are Now Openly Contemptuous of the Poor

New Delhi: Rarely has the national capital seen an assembly election where the class divide among its voters has been so palpable.  The last few...

yesterday 20

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Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

'With Every Change in Geography, Destinies Change': Abraham Verghese

Kozhikode: Spanning three generations, Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala before, during and after India’s independence...

yesterday 10

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Jahnavi Sen

A Rs 19.35 Lakh Crore Problem: CAG Report Spotlights IT Department’s Failures

A Rs 19.35 Lakh Crore Problem: CAG Report Spotlights IT Department’s Failures

“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain,...

yesterday 10

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Venkatesh Nayak

Exploring India's Complicated Relationship With Cannabis

Kozhikode: Cannabis plants are easy to spot in India, growing wild on the sides of roads and highways. It’s use, though, is far more controversial...

yesterday 10

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Jahnavi Sen

A 'Ram Temple' in Murshidabad and a Padma Shri for a Provocateur: How Communal Lines Are Being Drawn in Bengal

Sagardighi (Murshidabad): Last week, at the Sagardighi area of Murshidabad district in Bengal, a little known outfit held rituals for the...

yesterday 10

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Joydeep Sarkar

Budget 2025 Must Ensure Higher Investment in Agriculture and Rural Development

In the ninth episode of ‘Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?’, farmers’ rights activist and general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha Vijoo...

yesterday 10

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Vijoo Krishnan

Review: MG Devasahayam's Book is a Plea to Remember Emergency And Worry About the Present Times

Milan Kundera, the Czech-French novelist once said: “The struggle of Man against Power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” MG...

yesterday 10

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Avay Shukla

Air Chief Marshal Asks Officers to Express Grievances Privately Amid Military Politicisation Row

Chandigarh: Addressing military veterans recently in New Delhi, Air Chief Marshal (ACM) A.P. Singh highlighted the growing disaffection amongst...

yesterday 10

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Rahul Bedi

Budget 2025: A Chance to Acknowledge Address India's Growing Debt Burden

A recent study by the IMF reveals that hidden debt is becoming a growing global problem, threatening the economic stability of countries across the...

yesterday 7

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Deepanshu Mohan And Ankur Singh

Amidst Hate Speech Avalanche, 'Sanatan Board' Gets Nod at Maha Kumbh Dharma Sansad

New Delhi: Amid a lingering din of communal fear-mongering and provocative speeches targeted at Muslims, a “Sanatan Dharma Sansad” of Hindu...

yesterday 30

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Omar Rashid

Why Muslims Fear Communal Backlash as JPC Clears Waqf Amendments

Why Muslims Fear Communal Backlash as JPC Clears Waqf Amendments

New Delhi: On Monday (January 27), the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) cleared the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 , adopting all amendments...

yesterday 1

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Tarushi Aswani

Colombo In Talks With Adani to Lower Prices of Wind Power Deal

New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s government is in talks with the Adani Group to reduce the price of power that the conglomerate is to provide via two...

yesterday 1

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The Wire Staff

Over Phone Call, Modi, Trump Discuss Gaza, Ukraine; Agree to Meet Soon: MEA

New Delhi: Over a week after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president for the second time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a phone...

yesterday 10

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The Wire Staff

Latest Chapter in Army's BJP-Led Decolonisation Exercise Forgets the Contribution of Indian Soldiers in WWII

Latest Chapter in Army's BJP-Led Decolonisation Exercise Forgets the Contribution of Indian Soldiers in WWII

Chandigarh: Serving and veteran Indian Army officers are outraged over the purported move to re-christen several training companies or units at the...

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Rahul Bedi

Why the Rajasthan Government is Under Fire Over its Decision to Merge 449 Schools

Why the Rajasthan Government is Under Fire Over its Decision to Merge 449 Schools

Jaipur: A group of girl students, along with their parents gathered in front of a senior secondary school in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district on...

previous day 10

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Deep Mukherjee

The Union Government Must Impose Immediate Moratorium on Deletions of MGNREGS Workers

On March 30, 2023, Biddika Nagesh, a 36-year-old Savara Adivasi from Andhra Pradesh, was marked as deceased in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural...

previous day 10

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Chakradhar Buddha

Missing the Sea for the Turtles

Read all stories in the Science of the Seas series here. The tracks were fresh. The turtle had swum into the mouth of the Adyar river and emerged...

previous day 10

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Nityanand Jayaraman And S. Palayam

Registration for Live-In Relationships and Other 'Services': Uttarakhand Unveils Uniform Civil Code Portal

New Delhi: The Uttarakhand government today (January 27) rolled out its controversial uniform civil code. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami...

previous day 2

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The Wire Staff

Are Deliberate Documentation Errors Denying Bengal Tea Workers Access to State Welfare?

Are Deliberate Documentation Errors Denying Bengal Tea Workers Access to State Welfare?

Tea gardens have long been critical pivots of colonial and post-colonial administration and governance, subjected to the scrutiny of various...

previous day 7

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Dhiraj Singha

'Power Systems Wound Us Continuously...Literature Can Be a Great Healing Tool'

'Power Systems Wound Us Continuously...Literature Can Be a Great Healing Tool'

Kozhikode: Fiction is a mirror to a society – and “it’s also a mirror to its blind spots”, Turkish author Defne Suman said at a panel during...

previous day 6

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Jahnavi Sen

Trump Suspends Some Sanctions After Agreement With Colombia

The White House announced late Sunday that US President Donald Trump would not go forward with tariffs and some sanctions against Colombia, after...

previous day 4

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Dhiraj Singha

Wang Yi Urges India To Take Concrete Steps To Improve Ties, Warns Against Mutual Suspicion

New Delhi: India and China will resume the Kailash Manasarovar pilgrimage this summer and agreed “in principle” to resume direct flights, the...

previous day 5

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The Wire Staff

If Not Kejriwal, Then Who? Delhi Elections Bring Opposition's Leadership Crisis to Fore

As Delhi braces for the upcoming assembly elections slated for February 5, the political battlefield is buzzing with anticipation. The ruling Aam...

previous day 3

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Aamir Shakil

What VSR's Sudden Exit Means for Jagan Reddy's YSRCP

V. Vijay Sai Reddy (VSR), a confidant of former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S....

previous day 2

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Pavan Korada

1962: When Godmen Said It Was The End Of The World And Nehru Called it ‘Absurd’

This writer was witness to the 1962 Ashtagraha Samyoga –a conjunction of Sun, Moon, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – and all the...

previous day 4

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P. Raman

A Wealth Tax on the Super Rich Would Help Address India's Inequalities

A Wealth Tax on the Super Rich Would Help Address India's Inequalities

In the sixth episode of ‘Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?’, renowned economist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Jayati...

sunday 10

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Jayati Ghosh

The Politicisation of Maha Kumbh: Where Will It End?

The Politicisation of Maha Kumbh: Where Will It End?

The politicisation of this year’s Maha Kumbh has reached unprecedented levels with the number of attendees taking a dip in the Ganga being inflated...

sunday 10

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Krishna Pratap Singh

How the Budget Can Be Sensitive to the Needs of Dalit, Adivasi Communities

In the seventh episode of ‘Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?’, human rights activist and general secretary of the Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan...

sunday 10

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Beena Pallical

Poet, Filmmaker And Activist Tarun Bhartiya Passes Away; His Art Lives on

New Delhi: Famous filmmaker, poet and social activist Tarun Bhartiya passed away on Saturday morning of a massive heart attack. Tarun’s death has...

sunday 20

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The Wire Staff

‘Don’t Confine Sanatan Dharma to Boards’ Says Yogi as VHP, Akhara Parishad at Odds

New Delhi: The Sanatan Dharma is “one large banyan tree” and cannot be compared to a “bush”. With this allusion, UP chief minister Yogi...

sunday 9

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Omar Rashid

J&K Govt Withdraws Order on Student, Staff Participation in ABVP Event

Srinagar: Facing a backlash from the public and the opposition, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday (25 January) withdrew an order...

sunday 10

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Jehangir Ali

Article 19: Freedom(s) Illustrated

Article 19: Freedom(s) Illustrated
sunday 10

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Pariplab Chakraborty

Why Renaming Jaffna Cultural Centre Stirred a Storm in Sri Lanka

New Delhi: Following backlash from politicians and intellectuals of an Indian-made cultural centre in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the Indian authorities...

sunday 10

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The Wire Staff

Is Urban Infrastructure Resilient to the Growing Climate Change Risks?

New Delhi: Growing urbanisation in India has impacted the rising population within the major urban centres. Rapid changes in infrastructure,...

sunday 6

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Zainab S. Qazi

Indian Courts Are Still a Long Way From Acknowledging Women’s Right to Autonomy

Court proceedings are, in many ways, an elaborate performance. The courtroom is the stage, judges and lawyers are the actors while laws and rules...

sunday 6

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Meenaz Kakalia

Premature to Speculate on Numbers of Indian Illegal Immigrants Who Might be Deported: MEA

New Delhi: As the US began flying out migrants and expanded fast-track deportation authority on President Donald Trump’s orders on Friday (January...

25.01.2025 10

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The Wire Staff

US Prosecutors Plan to Seek Extradition Treaty Waiver For Expanded Charges Against Nikhil Gupta

New Delhi: Just three days before the Trump administration took office, US attorneys informed a New York federal district court of their intent to...

25.01.2025 5

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Devirupa Mitra

Trump’s Washington Will Severely Test Modi’s India

By one count, as many as 81,047 editorials and columns, totalling 30,111,952 words, were written about Donald Trump between his election on November...

25.01.2025 9

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Harish Khare

India is Relying on Hope to Tackle Trump’s Aggressive Tariff Policies

There were news reports a few weeks ago that Indian policy makers had started the exercise of building various scenarios to counter Donald...

25.01.2025 1

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M.k. Venu

The Exceptional Career of the Madras Engineer Group's ‘Grey Mule’

Chandigarh: The recent requiem in The Wire for the Indian Army (IA)’s age-old mule contingent, which is in the process of being replaced by...

25.01.2025 7

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Rahul Bedi

Removal and Resistance: Reflections on Anti-Muslim Racism

Removal and Resistance: Reflections on Anti-Muslim Racism

In the widely shared video from November 16, 2024, a woman attacks a Muslim Palestinian American couple at a Panera Bread outlet outside Chicago....

25.01.2025 7

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Uzma Aslam Khan

Recalling the ECs' Sordid Saga of Compromised Functioning on Its 75th Anniversary

Since the year 2011, January 25 is celebrated as National Voters’ Day to commemorate the foundation of the Election Commission on that day in 1950,...

25.01.2025 7

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S.n. Sahu

India, Indonesia Discuss Joint Defence Manufacturing and Maritime Security During Prabowo’s Visit

New Delhi: India and Indonesia explored deeper cooperation in defence manufacturing and supply chain development, including the maintenance of...

25.01.2025 6

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The Wire Staff

Dhankharspeak: The Vice-Presidential Art of Evading a Topic While Talking About it

Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar has an inimitable speaking style, both in its articulation and substance. It is assertive, if not aggressive. It is...

24.01.2025 1

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Vivek Katju

J&K Forest Dept Opposes Move to Fell Hundreds of Conifers for Gondola Ropeway in Pahalgam

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir forest department has raised objections against the government’s proposal to fell hundreds of conifer trees for...

24.01.2025 10

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Jehangir Ali

No Takers for Modi's Plan to 'Decolonise' Navy by Introducing Kurta-Pyjama in Dress Code

No Takers for Modi's Plan to 'Decolonise' Navy by Introducing Kurta-Pyjama in Dress Code

Chandigarh: Two of the Indian Navy’s (IN’s) recent initiatives aimed at furthering the BJP-led government’s political agenda of...

24.01.2025 4

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Rahul Bedi

Can a Civilisation Seek Justice?

Yes, it would seem so, if you believe what the Organiser – the official news-magazine of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh wrote in an editorial...

24.01.2025 4

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Ravi Joshi

India's Education Landscape Needs an Overhaul – 'No Detention' Is Only a Scapegoat

There is no doubt that the quality of education in India, especially in government schools but also across a whole range of private schools, is...

24.01.2025 2

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Dipa Sinha

'We Have to Engage With the Hardness of the World if We Are to Create Something New'

Kozhikode: What are the forms of violence we talk and write about, and what are the forms we largely ignore? Do the boundaries of land define the...

24.01.2025 3

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Jahnavi Sen

Trump in White House: Is He Set to Cross Red Lines in International Affairs?

With Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, the world finds itself grappling with an era of brash proclamations and heightened geopolitical...

24.01.2025 3

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K.m. Seethi

How an Uncertain US Immigration Policy Affects Labour Markets

How an Uncertain US Immigration Policy Affects Labour Markets

In the last decade, increased anti-immigration rhetoric has resulted in a massive rise in migration policy uncertainty across advanced nations like...

24.01.2025 2

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Ritam Chaurey

Keralite Couple in UP Get 5 Years in Jail for 'Converting' Dalit Villagers to Christianity

New Delhi: A court in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a South-Indian-origin couple to five years in prison for trying to induce Hindu Dalits to convert...

24.01.2025 2

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Omar Rashid

2024 Saw 84% Rise in Communal Riots, Religious Festivals Were Main Trigger: CSSS Report

New Delhi: Communal riots in India rose by 84% in 2024 with the Muslim population being the biggest target. In a report titled Hegemony and...

24.01.2025 10

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The Wire Staff

'Send 40-50 Students With 2 Teachers': J&K Govt's Order to Poonch Education Dept for ABVP Rally

Srinagar: On January 23, several students and teachers participated in a ‘Tiranga’ rally organised by Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarti Parishad (ABVP)...

24.01.2025 10

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The Wire Staff

In DU’s Daulat Ram College, Students Witness Saffronisation of a ‘Safe Place’

New Delhi: The Daulat Ram College (DRC) in Delhi University (DU) on Wednesday (January 22) organised a religious programme in the premises of the...

24.01.2025 3

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Tarushi Aswani

Trump's Arctic Ambition: Why Greenland is Crucial for US National Security and Space Warfare

With a population of around 60,000, Greenland could be compared to any small village in parts of the world with a similar population. Greenland’s...

24.01.2025 7

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Ajey Lele