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'We Too Represent India': Rahul Gandhi, Dimple Yadav on Govt No Longer Letting Foreign Leaders Meet Opposition

yesterday 10

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The Wire Staff

In Major Climbdown, Govt Says Sanchar Saathi Pre-installation Not Mandatory

In Major Climbdown, Govt Says Sanchar Saathi Pre-installation Not Mandatory

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Amid severe backlash around the government backed cybersecurity app that would be pre-installed for smartphone...

yesterday 10

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Sravasti Dasgupta

After Speculations of Being ‘Silently Dropped’ PMO Key Communications Lead Hiren Joshi is Back

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Hiren Joshi, Officer on Special Duty or OSD (Communications & Information Technology) in the Prime Minister’s...

yesterday 10

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Indian Navy Ups the Stakes With Newest Nuclear Submarine INS Aridaman

yesterday 10

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Rahul Bedi

Hany Babu Gets Bail After Five Years and Four Months in Jail Without Trial

yesterday 10

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Sukanya Shantha

Govt Directs Phone Makers to Install its Cybersecurity App, Ensure No Removal

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The Wire Staff

Govt Wants Us to Have Its Cybersecurity App on Our Phone. Here Are the Times it Has Failed to Safeguard Our Data

Listen to this article: News of the Narendra Modi government making it mandatory for phone makers and importers to install its own cyber security...

previous day 20

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Soumashree Sarkar

Sanchar Saathi Mandate Expands Device Tracking, Not Security

Sanchar Saathi Mandate Expands Device Tracking, Not Security

Listen to this article: The Indian government’s new order mandating the installation of a new citizen service app, “Sanchar Saathi”, offers no...

previous day 3

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Srinivas Kodali

Govt Agrees to Debate on ‘Electoral Reforms’ in Parliament Next Week But Only After Vande Mataram

Govt Agrees to Debate on ‘Electoral Reforms’ in Parliament Next Week But Only After Vande Mataram

Listen to this article: New Delhi: After resisting throughout the monsoon session the opposition’s demands for a discussion on the special...

previous day 10

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Day After His Arrest by CBI In Rubaiya Sayeed Abduction Case, Jammu Court Sets Businessman Free

Listen to this article: Srinagar: A Srinagar-based businessman who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged...

previous day 10

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Jehangir Ali

'Fake News a Threat to Democracy': Ashwini Vaishnaw Tells Lok Sabha

previous day 4

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India

previous day 6

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Kishor K. Podh

The Hidden Hindrance to Atmanirbharta: Endless Revisions of Military Specs

The Hidden Hindrance to Atmanirbharta: Endless Revisions of Military Specs

Listen to this article: Chandigarh: India’s pursuit of atmanirbharta, or self-reliance in defence materiel, has been hindered for decades by the...

previous day 4

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Rahul Bedi

Nonviolence and Tolerance in Early India

previous day 4

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Romila Thapar

'I Beg to Return': Union Govt Tells Supreme Court it Will Bring Back Pregnant Sunali Khatun from Bangladesh

previous day 6

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Arka Deb

Power and Politics Are Now the Death and Life of Bengali Cinema

Power and Politics Are Now the Death and Life of Bengali Cinema

Listen to this article: Kolkata: On November 3 this year, the trailer of an independent Bengali film called The Academy of Fine Arts was doing the...

previous day 4

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Amborish Roychoudhury And

Is India's Q2 GDP Surge Believable?

Is India's Q2 GDP Surge Believable?

The Gross Domestic Product or GDP growth rate for quarter two of 2025-2026 has come at a whopping 8.2% – which is a six-quarter high – much faster...

tuesday 10

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Arun Kumar

Modi Offers India's Support as Khaleda Zia's Condition Turns Critical

Modi Offers India's Support as Khaleda Zia's Condition Turns Critical

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Expressing concern about the deteriorating health of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, prime...

tuesday 10

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The Wire Staff

Fresh FIR Against Gandhis in National Herald Case: Cover-up for ED's Own Errors?

Fresh FIR Against Gandhis in National Herald Case: Cover-up for ED's Own Errors?

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate’s fresh FIR with the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi police in the National Herald case, Congress...

tuesday 20

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Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

'Govt Not Averse to Discussion on SIR, Don’t Insist on Timeline': Rijiju Tells Rajya Sabha

tuesday 1

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Opp Demands Discussion on SIR, National Security at All-Party Meeting Ahead of Winter Session

Opp Demands Discussion on SIR, National Security at All-Party Meeting Ahead of Winter Session

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Ahead of the winter session of parliament that is set to commence on Monday, the government held an all-party...

01.12.2025 4

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Sravasti Dasgupta

Minimum Wages Under the New Labour Codes: What the Law Promises and What It Misses

01.12.2025 3

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Kashif Mansoor

‘Train Dreams’ Confronts Ecological Conservation, 20th-Century Capitalism Through a Faceless American Figure

Listen to this article: It takes a special kind of film to be aware of its surroundings. It is one thing to fetishise nature and invite comparison...

01.12.2025 1

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Tatsam Mukherjee

Who Counts, Who Knows, Who Decides but Caste?

Who Counts, Who Knows, Who Decides but Caste?

Listen to this article: While caste in India has long been understood as a hierarchical socio-economic system – a view underscored by Marxist...

30.11.2025 20

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Swarati Sabhapandit And

Politic | The Hype and Reality of Narendra Modi's Politics

Politic | The Hype and Reality of Narendra Modi's Politics

Listen to this article: Hype is the byword for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics. If you thought the prime minister must show a sense of...

30.11.2025 6

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Sanjay K. Jha

'Won’t Consider Withheld Parts of Report on Revisiting Clearance for Great Nicobar Projects': NGT

'Won’t Consider Withheld Parts of Report on Revisiting Clearance for Great Nicobar Projects': NGT

Listen to this article: New Delhi: India’s apex green court, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), has said that it will only place on record those...

30.11.2025 1

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The Wire Staff