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ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission Could Face Potential Delays Due to Ongoing Safety Assessments

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Gaganyaan, India’s first human spaceflight mission, remains on course, although the timeline for its first...

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The Wire Staff

Excluded From SIR, No Passport? The Shocking Story of How Former Editor of a National Daily Was Denied His Rights

Listen to this article: Rejection was spelt out in 21 letters: “Excluded in deleted list.” Earlier, a senior journalist had virtually admonished...

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R Rajagopal

A Year After Rail Blockade Unrest in Purulia, New Bengal Govt Promises Review but Kurmis Say Justice Elusive

Listen to this article: “Release the innocent. Conduct a genuine investigation. Bring to justice those who were responsible for the Kotshila Rail...

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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee

Two Democratic Senators Ask if DOJ's Bid to Abandon Prosecution of Adani is Influenced by His $10 Billion Investment Offer

Listen to this article: New Delhi: More than two weeks before a US federal judge demanded that the Justice Department explain its bid to abandon the...

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The Wire Staff

From Paris to Patiala: Mapping Art Deco’s Indian Turn

Listen to this article: Rewind to Paris, 1925. It is the Roaring Twenties with folks determined to put the horrors of World War I behind them. Out...

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Sneha Sridhar

Ram Mandir Trust Confirms Key Officials' Resignations, Says Won't Let Scandal Repeat

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In its first official statement on the Ram Mandir embezzlement case, the temple’s trust on Saturday (June 27)...

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The Wire Staff

Delhi HC Order was a Relief for NewsClick, But Ex-Employees Still Grappling with Unemployment, Stigma and Uncertainty

Listen to this article: New Delhi: “Having spent almost five years at NewsClick, I found myself leaving the organisation without any compensation. I...

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Sonia Yadav

How India's Green Revolution Really Happened

Listen to this article: Prakash Kumar’s deep dive into the history of India’s Green Revolution has three principal loci. The first is a...

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T.c.a. Raghavan

Modi Has Been Dismantling Democracy But India's Liberals are Going After Rahul Gandhi

Listen to this article: One of the most striking features of contemporary Indian politics is not merely the consolidation of Narendra Modi’s power...

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Ashok Swain

What the Karnataka Hysterectomy Case Reveals About Reproductive Rights of Disabled Women

Listen to this article: The recent Karnataka high court judgment permitting the parents of a 23-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability to...

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Muralidharan

Teen Pregnancy, Contraception and the Unequal Responsibility Placed on Rajasthan’s Marginalised Women

Listen to this article: About a year and a half ago, in a small village in Dholpur district, I came across a wedding celebration. Wanting to...

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Malvika Mudgal

'Unconstitutional, Un-Islamic': Madras High Court Says Islam Converts Can't Claim BC Muslim Status

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has ruled that a person who converts to Islam cannot claim the status of...

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The Wire Staff

Over a Year After Op Sindoor, Govt Quietly Inscribes Names of Six Military Personnel at National War Memorial

Listen to this article: New Delhi: More than a year after Operation Sindoor, the Union government has officially released the names of six military...

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The Wire Staff

Day 120 of US-Israel War on Iran: US Strikes Iran, Calls it 'Powerful Response' after Vessel Attacked in Strait of Hormuz

Listen to this article: Iran on Saturday asserted that no damage was caused by the US attack on Sirik port and claimed that the situation was...

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The Wire Staff

When it Comes to Arms Sales, India and its European Friends are Equally Transactional

Listen to this article: Official utterances usually conceal more than what they reveal, so it is hard to understand why recent statements by external...

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Anita Inder Singh

The Money Question RSS Never Had to Answer: An Ex Insider’s View

Listen to this article: Some questions take a lifetime to ask. Others take a century. The recent remarks by Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge...

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Partha Banerjee

Documenting Gavri Celebrations in Rajasthan's Mewar

Listen to this article: William Crooke’s Popular Religion and Folklore of North India, James Tod’s Annales and Antiquities of Rajasthan, the...

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Smita Tewari Jassal

Umar Khalid's Acknowledgements

Listen to this article: The following is the ‘Acknowledgements’ section of Umar Khalid’s thesis published in book form, Fractured Communities:...

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Umar Khalid

The 'Natural Death' Problem in Indian Jails

Listen to this article: Mangaluru: “The last few phone calls from my husband were filled with nothing but despair and helplessness,” says Parveen...

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Sukanya Shantha

US Judge Declines to Immediately Dismiss Adani Indictment, Orders DOJ to Explain Decision

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A US federal judge has declined to immediately approve the Donald Trump administration’s request to throw out the...

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The Wire Staff

Under Shadow of 90 Lakh ‘Anomaly’ Voters and Amid Language Concerns, SIR Kicks Off in Telangana

Listen to this article: Hyderabad: The month-long house-to-house enumeration of voters under the third phase of the contentious special intensive...

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N. Rahul

Chronology Samajhiye: Method Behind Modi Government’s Passport Madness

Listen to this article: On June 25, an unnamed Ministry of External Affairs official triggered a controversy by saying – in passing – that an...

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Siddharth Varadarajan

Remembering Thomas R. Metcalf, The Historian Who Reinvented Himself Again and Again

Listen to this article: When I last saw Thomas R. Metcalf (around May 2022), we sat down to lunch with Barbara in a café in Berkeley. He was antsy....

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Durba Ghosh

Main Vaapas Aaunga: A Thumbs Up From Gen Z?

Partition means different things to different people. For some, it is grief of separation, exile and loss. For others, a retrospective legitimisation...

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Paromita Ghosh

Delhi BJP Councillor Injured In Stray Cow Attack as City's Cattle Crisis Worsens

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor Shashi Chandna was gravely injured in a stray cattle attack on Wednesday...

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The Wire Staff

Ram Temple 'Theft' FIR Says Devotees' Offerings Embezzled in ‘Planned, Recurring, Criminal Manner’

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The first information report (FIR) registered by the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday (June 25) in relation to the...

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The Wire Staff

‘Truth Can't Be Said From the Corridors of Power’: Parliamentary Panel's J&K Visit Triggers Debate

Listen to this article: Srinagar: A four-day visit by the 13-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs to Jammu and Kashmir and...

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Junaid Dar

Ex-IAS Sujata Rout Karthikeyan Joins BJD as Patnaik Says He Will Remain Chief

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Sujata Rout Karthikeyan, former IAS officer and wife of V. Karthikeyan Pandian, a close aide of Biju Janata Dal...

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The Wire Staff

The F414 Row Is the Price of India's Long Failure to Develop Its Own Jet Engines

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: What was once hailed as one of the most consequential defence technology agreements between India and the United...

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Rahul Bedi

Watch | ‘I Kept Telling Them I Was 16’: Minor Speaks Out After Release From Jail

Listen to this article: A 16-year-old minor was kept in jail with adult prisoners for nearly two months in connection with the Noida workers’...

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Shruti Sharma

Champat Rai Resigns as Ayodhya Police Arrests 8, Including Rai's Driver, in Ram Temple Theft Case

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Ayodhya Police have filed a FIR against eight individuals and unidentified others based on a complaint of theft,...

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The Wire Staff

'Show Us Evidence of Money in Cow Dung': Ram Temple Scam Accused Lavkush Mishra's Family Is Defiant

Listen to this article: Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh: “Oh, is it that person from whose house money was recovered, hidden in cow dung? I like to keep my...

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Akanksha Kumar

Who is the New IB Chief Mahesh Dixit?

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Mahesh Dixit, a 1993 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has been appointed at the new director of the...

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The Wire Staff

In Cox’s Bazar, Rohingya Gen Z is Challenging Bangladesh’s Status Quo

Listen to this article: Over the past few weeks, groups of young Rohingya refugees have gathered in Cox’s Bazar camps to demand justice,...

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Jayalakshmi Itla Ragiri

Our Criminal Justice System Overlooks Victims of Police Torture

Listen to this article: Today, June 26 is observed as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. “Life of a 17-year-old boy was nipped...

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Edgar Kaiser And

In Plassey, West Bengal, Whose Mir Jafar Lives on in Politics

Listen to this article: Polashi and Namak Haram Deorhi: The hunting lodge in the mango orchard has mixed with the earth under jute, sugarcane and...

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Sujan Dutta

My Grandmother’s Memories of Muharram Are the Threads of a Syncretic Past

Listen to this article: I often remember my grandmother Janaki, who left us a couple of years ago but lives on in her beautiful, powerful, yet simple...

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Ragini de

As Global Military Expenditure Surges, India Bucks the Trend

Listen to this article: Global military expenditure rose for the 11th consecutive year to a record $2.887 trillion in 2025, according to a recent...

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Amit Cowshish

BJP Names SP Rebel Pooja Pal, Rajnath Singh's Son to Key UP Posts Ahead of 2027 Polls

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A rebel sitting MLA of the Samajwadi Party and the younger son of defence minister Rajnath Singh have found their...

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Omar Rashid

Former CJI Among Experts Whose Opinions Were Submitted by Adani Defence to US DOJ

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A former chief justice of India and a former chairperson of India’s Central Electricity Authority were among a...

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Devirupa Mitra

A Dalit or Jat Sikh? Congress Weighs its Options for Punjab Chief

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: A month ago, the appointment of former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi as Punjab Pradesh Congress...

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Maneesh Chhibber

Two Arrested in Bhagwant Mann Video Forensic Case had NIA Links; Opposition Demands CBI Probe

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Haryana Police have arrested two individuals for allegedly conspiring to forge forensic and cyber analysis...

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The Wire Staff

Indians Must Prove Their Citizenship in the SIR – But With What?

When the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday (June 24) said that an Indian passport is not a document proving citizenship, it may have been...

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Sravasti Dasgupta

The Women Who Still Know the Forest

Listen to this article: At the Hatiya weekly market in Dumka district, Jharkhand, Rupa Soren, 52, sits cross-legged on the bare ground, a spread of...

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Kulesh Bhandari

NIA Contract Staff Arrests, Forensics and Furious Akal Takht: Bhagwant Mann's Worst Political Crisis

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Haryana Police have arrested two individuals for allegedly conspiring to forge forensic and cyber analysis...

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The Wire Staff

India to Resume Tourist Visas for Bangladesh Citizens from June 28

New Delhi: India will resume tourist visas for Bangladesh citizens from June 28, Dinesh Trivedi, the newly appointed High Commissioner of India to...

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The Wire Staff

NCERT in News Again: Doubles Down on Naming Karnataka Textbook 'Krishna', Delays Nazism by a Year

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is in the news again – for introducing a...

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The Wire Staff

How Photographs Defied All Attempts to Bury the Memory of Sri Lanka's War

Listen to this article: I should say at the outset that I am not a disinterested reader of this book. I am in it. In her third chapter, Buthpitiya...

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Shyam Tekwani

Colonel, Major Among 30-40 Army Soldiers Booked for Assaulting Police in Kishtwar

Listen to this article: Srinagar: An Army Colonel, a Major, and 30-40 other soldiers of the 17 Rashtriya Rifles have been booked for attempt to murder...

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Umer Maqbool

Why is it Difficult to Survive as a Prime Minister in Today’s Britain?

Listen to this article: Keir Starmer has resigned as leader of the Labour party, and so in time as the UK’s prime minister. In the end, despite his...

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Nicholas Dickinson