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Listen to this article: For a few weeks, the Strait of Hormuz has been the cynosure of all eyes. The world is on edge. The cessation of the US and...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Rajya Sabha chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan on Monday accepted the ‘merger’ of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with...
New Delhi: A dispute at a tea stall in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur has spiralled into a political flashpoint, with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh...
Listen to this article: A question now sits on the Lok Sabha Speaker’s desk. Should the inquiry committee that was examining the allegations against...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: The Union government should announce some “trust building” measures to make the upcoming visit of Union home...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Sabina Yasmin does not start with politics. Over the phone from Nadia’s Kaliganj, she begins the chat with her...
Listen to this article: Today, April 26, is celebrated as International Seed Day. “Our fields are still green, but they no longer carry the same...
Listen to this article: The anti-defection law has attracted national attention with Raghav Chadha, a member of Rajya Sabha belonging to the Aam Aadmi...
Listen to this article: Raghu and I, entered the portals of The Statesmen, New Delhi, in the same year – 1964-65. A paradox attended his adoration...
Listen to this article: May day is just around the corner. As a workers group with primarily rural women members, we celebrate May day every year –...
Listen to this article: Nehru once said that India and China working together could introduce an Asian golden age. The same thought was echoed by...
Listen to this article: The well known news photographer Raghu Rai, who could see beauty in every street corner, draw out divinity and the comic in...
Listen to this article: Post-colonial democratic movements share a tragedy. A ruling elite appropriates the immense sacrifices of ordinary people and...
Listen to this article: As someone who has been watching Bollywood biopics for the last decade, there should be little in Antoine Fuqua’s Michael...
Listen to this article: Every time America or Europe decide to interfere with the Eastern world or West Asia, narratives and images are dropped before...
Listen to this article: On a Sunday, I watched the sun set. It had been a long time since I last did, and this was the closest I’ve come lately to...
Listen to this article: “They chased our truck for more than 20-30 kms. In the beginning, they were five or six, but by the time they overtook and...
Listen to this article: He na janaave sadharan, anna brahma roop jaan. Thus spake Saint Gyaneshwar of Maharashtra. Food is splayed all over our...
Listen to this article: On the day when voting for the state assembly of West Bengal commenced, with names of slightly more than two and half million...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The crisis in West Asia triggered by the US and Israel’s war on Iran entered day 58 on Sunday (April 26). Iranian...
Listen to this article: Washington (AP): A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by...
Listen to this article: That’s the question: Where is India lagging behind? Everybody knows where India is lagging behind. Unemployment, rising...
Listen to this article: Anniversaries are important. They serve as a sombre reminder of lives lost; of grief that lingers. Anniversaries, like that of...
Listen to this article: Anju Begam, 40, travelled around 1,600 km from Noida to West Bengal’s Cooch Bihar to cast her vote in the assemble...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: India is now among the “limited countries” where Facebook and Instagram can “automatically restrict content,...
Listen to this article: Anju Begam, 40, travelled around 1,600 km from Noida to West Bengal’s Cooch Bihar to cast her vote in the assemble...
Listen to this article: A sullied hand tugs insistently at your clothes. You turn to see a little arm outstretched – peremptory and tentative at the...
Listen to this article: The way I see myself has been shaped by the comments I’ve heard from my parents since childhood. People often say that...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Telangana police have invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against the social media handle...
Listen to this article: The departure of seven MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is unfolding a situation that is bruising, public and irreversible....
Listen to this article: The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, failed in the Lok Sabha. This bill was intended to pave the way for expanding...
Listen to this article: The original law on women’s reservation, the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, was passed unanimously by Parliament as a...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: A mysterious explosion ripped through a forest in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Friday (April 24),...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: With Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reached to Pakistan for “bilateral consultations” last evening,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The chapters unfolding in Manipur today may appear new, but they echo a script the state has already lived through....
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A meeting of BRICS deputy foreign ministers and special envoys on West Asia ended on Friday without a joint...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: From “partisan asymmetry” in enforcing the Model Code of Conduct to “public denunciation of a recognised...
The violence in Manipur is escalating at an alarming rate. However, no one incident can explain the complexity of the situation. We need to see the...
Listen to this article: Dhaka: At a time when Bangladesh is in serious financial stress amid rising costs of energy import and a historic revenue...
Listen to this article: Welfare policies targeting women became a flashpoint in political debates during the recent election campaigns in Tamil Nadu....
New Delhi: After embarrassing the Bharatiya Janata Party government, admitting to a global audience in the US capital that India had acquiesced to US...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Weeks after a public fallout with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which moved to suspend and then replace him in Rajya...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: As West Bengal enters the final phases of its assembly elections, central investigative agencies have intensified...
Listen to this article: Militancy drew national attention to Kashmir twice in 2025 – first in April, when militants killed 22 tourists in Pahalgam,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On April 16, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan disposed of a contempt petition filed by the NGO Lok...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain petitions by electoral officers who are themselves deleted from the...
Listen to this article: The spectacle of former Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai meeting a self-styled godman, Dhirendra Shastri – known by the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Over the past several decades, the US has cultivated a mythology of military competence and moral clarity in its...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The war triggered by the US and Israel’s attack on Iran entered day 56 on Friday (April 24). US president Donald...
Listen to this article: On Wednesday (April 22), on the eve of the first phase of assembly elections in West Bengal, it was not Prime Minister...