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Modi's Refusal to Take Press Queries Spotlit Again as Norwegian Journalist Heckles PM

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s attitude towards the press was once again foregrounded during...

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The Wire Staff

US Announces USD 275 Million Sanctions 'Settlement' With Adani Enterprises

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The US Treasury Department on Monday announced a USD 275 million settlement with Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) over...

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The Wire Staff

US Announces USD 275 Million Sanctions Settlement With Adani Enterprises

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Pragya Singh

While Hindu Nationalism Originated in West Bengal, Hindutva was Never Bengali

Listen to this article: Recently, Professor Partha S. Ghosh penned an insightful article in The Wire, examining the roots of Hindu nationalism in the...

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Adityakrishna Deora

DBS Jeyaraj, Fearless Chronicler of Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict and Tamil Struggle, Passes Away

Listen to this article: “Hello, Revolutionary!” It was not without reason that Hardeep Singh Puri, then a first secretary in Colombo, greeted Sri...

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M.r. narayan swamy

Austerity Appeals for Whom? A Delayed Response to a Brewing Crisis

Listen to this article: The government has woken up to the impending challenges facing the Indian economy. On May 12 – 73 days after the war...

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Arun Kumar

ED Arrests AAP's Deepak Singla; Atishi Says BJP Trying to 'Acquire' AAP Data Through Raids

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday (May 18) arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Deepak Singla, in...

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The Wire Staff

Academic Freedom in South Asia Requires a Regional Canvas. Here’s Why

Listen to this article: Over the past 10 years, India has seen a significant decline in academic freedom, now ranking in the bottom 10-20% globally on...

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Nandini Sundar

Manipur's Electoral Roll Revision Raises New Concerns Amid Unrelenting Violence

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Three years after ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, 2023, the state remains mired in conflict, with a...

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The Wire Staff

Congress Moves Privilege Notice Against Education Minister Over Remarks on Parliamentary Panels

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Congress leader and Member of Parliament Jairam Ramesh has written to the chairman of Rajya Sabha C.P....

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The Wire Staff

‘Under US Pressure’: RSS Leader’s Call for Dialogue With Pakistan

Listen to this article: Srinagar: The controversial remarks by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale that New Delhi...

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Jehangir Ali

As Cow Violence Comes to Bengal, BJP Leader Says 'Bajrang Dal Will Guard' Against Smuggling

Listen to this article: Katwa (Purba Bardhaman): Just three days after the Bharatiya Janata Party government was sworn in in West Bengal, in Katwa...

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Joydeep Sarkar

BCCI to Continue IPL Despite Modi’s Austerity Appeal, Argues No Government Directions So Far

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s repeated public appeals for voluntary nationwide austerity measures...

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The Wire Staff

The Strategic Delusion: How One Word Came to Mean Everything and Nothing

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The term ‘strategic’ has become the tadka, or heavily spiced seasoning, of modern discourse. It is liberally...

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Rahul Bedi

Caste Discrimination May Be Driving India's Stunting Gap

Listen to this article: This article was originally published by Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA), Ashoka University. Child malnutrition...

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Ashwini deshpande and

Amid Concerns Over CBSE's OSM System, Education Ministry Defends it as 'Transparent', 'Used Internationally'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: While students and parents have expressed concerns over the new “on-screen marking (OSM)” system of the Central...

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The Wire Staff

Modi Govt’s Tightly Controlled Script Comes Under Dutch Journalistic Scrutiny

Listen to this article: New Delhi: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to the Netherlands, a major controversy erupted during a...

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The Wire Analysis

Char Dham Yatra Records 53 Deaths in First Month, Over 15 Lakh Pilgrims Visit Shrines

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Over 50 people have died during the Char Dham Yatra since the religious pilgrimage began last month on April 19,...

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The Wire Staff

Legal Challenge Pending, Govt Clears Forest Diversion for Vedanta’s Sijimali Bauxite Mine Road

New Delhi: Even though a plea challenging prior approval to divert forest land for a road linked to Vedanta Limited’s proposed Sijimali bauxite mine...

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Ayaskant Das

Supreme Court Criticises Denial of Bail to Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench today appeared to doubt another apex court bench’s judgment in the controversial order in...

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The Wire Staff

Governance Failures Are Worsening The Impacts of Heat. Here’s How.

Listen to this article: Bengaluru: India is living through a heatwave right now.  On May 17, the India Meteorological Department announced that both...

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Aathira Perinchery

Modi's Netherlands Visit Coloured By Dutch PM's Remarks on Rights in India, Insiya Hemani Case

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten spoke to local media ahead of his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

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The Wire Staff

MP High Court's Bhojshala Verdict is Worse Than Plain Flawed: It is Predetermined

Listen to this article: The name, oh the name Like any great fiction, it starts with a name. But before the name, understand the weapon. A lie is...

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Darab Farooqui

'Grave Misgivings' Over IAS, IPS Officers Buying 2,000-Hectare Land on Same Day, CCG Writes to Madhya Pradesh CM

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Members of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a forum of retired Indian civil servants, have written an open...

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The Wire Staff

India, Globally: SIR, an Opposition, and the Point of BRICS

The Narendra Modi government frequently posits India as a ‘Vishwaguru’ or world leader. How the world sees India is often lost in this branding...

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The Wire Staff

WHO Declares Global Health Emergency Over Ebola Outbreak in Congo and Uganda

Listen to this article: Abuja: The World Health Organisation declared the Ebola disease outbreak caused by a rare virus in Congo and neighbouring...

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Chinedu asadu

Heatwave To Hit Delhi, Parts of Central and Northwest India: IMD

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A heatwave will hit parts of central and northwest India including Delhi, as per a press release by the India...

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The Wire Staff

Ordinance Raj: Supreme Court Gets Bigger Through a Surrogate Legislation

Listen to this article: An ordinance must, by the Constitution’s text, name a circumstance. The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment...

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The Wire Analysis

Hindutva Brigade Captured Bengal, Can It Co-Opt Subhas Chandra Bose?

Listen to this article: After the capture of West Bengal, The Hindutva Brigade has successfully completed its  eastern expedition. On the very eve of...

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Shivasundar

It’s the Small Things | Tombs that Whisper

Listen to this article: My most favourite place in Hyderabad ever since we moved to the city 15 years ago is the Qutab Shahi tombs nestled in Ibrahim...

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Aparna devare

Great Nicobar Project 'Recipe for Ecological Disaster': Jairam Ramesh Writes to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In a letter to Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday (May 17) has written...

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The Wire Staff

From UP to Karnataka: Six Routes Around the 1991 Places of Worship Act

Listen to this article: A pattern of litigation is now running across at least six contested religious sites in three states. It is doing to the...

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The Wire Analysis

President Approves Ordinance to Increase the Strength of SC Judges From 33 to 37

Listen to this article: In 2019, the Modi government, through a similar amendment to ‘The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, had increased the...

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Arvind Gunasekar

Politic: Modi’s Economic Failures, the Real Story of Oil Prices and a Timid Opposition

Listen to this article: It wasn’t just a rhetorical metamorphosis; the prime minister induced a discursive rupture, dragging the gullible from the...

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Sanjay K. Jha

Is Gautam Adani India’s Economic Ambassador or Narendra Modi His Intermediary ?

Listen to this article: Narendra Modi will visit Norway next week, 43 years after an Indian prime minister went to this small European country. Close...

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Christophe Jaffrelot

Telangana Police Arrest BJP Leader and Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar's Son in POCSO Case

Listen to this article: Hyderabad: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son Bandi...

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N. Rahul

Varanasi Iftar-on-Boat Case: Eight Get Bail, Complainant BJP Yuva Morcha Leader Says 'Muslim Youth Will Learn a Lesson'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Allahabad high court, on May 15, granted bail to eight Muslim men from Varanasi, who were arrested earlier in...

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Akanksha Kumar

Telangana High Court Denies Arrest Protection to Union Minister's Son in POCSO Case

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Telangana high court on Friday (May 15) denied to grant interim protection from arrest to Bandi Sai Bhageerath,...

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The Wire Staff

Modi’s ‘Opposition-Mukt’ Bharat: How Delhi Durbar Engineered Bengal Regime Change

Listen to this article: Adi Shankara’s sarpa-sutra nyaya (snake-rope analogy) propounds two levels of truth: what the common man perceives and the...

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P. Raman

India's Mountain States Are Ecological Creditors; Finance Commission Has Failed to Pay the Debt

Listen to this article: Gobind Singh watched the sky above his apple orchard in Shantha, Himachal Pradesh, with growing dread through the first week...

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Ankit mishra

It’s the Small Things | Thoughts on Masculinity on an Auto Ride

Listen to this article: I have attended many academic panels on urbanity, masculinity and the modern metropolis as a social construct. Oh, to have...

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Annika amber

The Chief Justice Called Them Cockroaches. History Knows Where That Language Leads.

Listen to this article: On May 15, 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, presiding over a Supreme Court bench, described unemployed young Indians...

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Gurdeep sappal

Opposition in Parliamentary Panel, Cannot Accept Recommendations: Dharmendra Pradhan

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Facing criticism after the National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance...

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The Wire Staff

‘Offends Spirit of Democracy’: Outrage over CJI Surya Kant’s ‘Cockroaches’ ‘Parasites’ Remarks

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice Surya Kant’s remarks on Friday (May 15) when he hit out at unemployed youth...

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The Wire Staff

The Lethal Policy Choice of Inequality: How India's Super Rich Rule Over Democracy

Listen to this article: A 100 years ago, a judge of the United States Supreme Court Louis Brandeis had with remarkable prescience declared, “We must...

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Harsh mander

Unlike Modi, Gandhi Practiced What He Preached

Listen to this article: Leadership begins with self-discipline. It has never been just about holding a position or gaining public attention for moral...

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Mehul Devkala

Day 78 of US-Israel War on Iran: Lebanon 'Ceasefire' Extended as Israeli Strikes Continue on Nakba Day

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A joint statement released by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz on Friday...

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The Wire Staff

The Claim of ‘Only 3%’ Hike in Petrol-Diesel Prices is Misleading. Here’s How.

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A widely shared chart posted by many pro-government journalists on social media highlights that India’s recent...

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The Wire Analysis

From Kerala’s Red Rebel Era to Cannes 2026; ‘Purushan’ Remembers John Abraham’s Amma Ariyan

 “He liked drugs, rock music, politics too at times. He was very confused when I met him. We talked politics. I tried to tell him political beings...

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Sreelakshmi soman

Who Owns Public Power? Adani, the State and Resistance in Puducherry

Listen to this article: The proposed privatisation of the electricity department of Puducherry has evolved into one of the most politically sensitive...

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Amir hyder khan