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Azam Khan must face the law. His Jauhar University students shouldn’t pay the price

Rampur’s Mohammad Ali Jauhar University has emerged as one of the region's most significant centres of higher education.

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Ambreen Zaidi

Why NSE must not be brought under RTI

While entities that most citizens instinctively regard as ‘public institutions’ have increasingly escaped the RTI Act, courts have shown a greater...

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Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah

Why trust in international relations needs to be incentivised

India’s foreign policy is replete with partnerships that reflect a more material and realist conception of trust.

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Monish Tourangbam

Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya wasn’t Ravan’s palace. Here’s the real history

Indian travellers who visit Sri Lanka and ascend the rock fortress should set aside the version of its history pushed by social media influencers.

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Disha Ahluwalia

4 things India needs to do to qualify for the 2034 FIFA World Cup

A credible 2034 World Cup challenge must begin with being objective about where Indian football stands and being confident about what can be built.

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Amitabh Kant

Lionel Messi’s World Cup ended in defeat. His greatness continues

Lionel Messi departs North American shores with 21 goals and 12 assists across his glittering World Cup career, a total of 33 direct goal...

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Akshat Mohan

India’s hydrogen train not just about environment. It’s a step toward Atmanirbhar Bharat

Countries with vast rail networks are prime candidates for hydrogen-powered trains. India is therefore a great testing ground.

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Meenakashi Lekhi

No, Zara isn’t plotting your murder—‘Death Pants’ just need a quick hem

Consumers across the world have posted videos showing broken bones, falls, and other accidents. But is the panic over it justified?

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Gracy Narayan

Christopher Nolan’s IMAX obsession has cheated most of us out of his real Odyssey

The Odyssey becomes ‘epic’ only for those privileged enough to access a 15/70mm IMAX screening. India doesn’t even have one.

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Harsh Tiwari

Modi govt can’t see the difference between confidence and arrogance. What it means to people

It’s not just about the NEET paper leaks anymore. It’s not even about Dharmendra Pradhan. The huge gathering is a cumulative effect of small...

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D.k. Singh

Small workshop to global supplier—how this Indian auto parts maker built a manufacturing empire

Uno Minda closed the last financial year ending March with consolidated revenues of close to Rs 20,000 crore, and has 37,000 employees working across...

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Kushan Mitra

Dear Bollywood, learn from Sing Geetham how songs can take a story forward

In Singeetam Srinivasa Rao’s Sing Geetham, conversations exist within music; the dialogues themselves are musical, not add-ons.

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Harsh Tiwari

I Play Rocky shows the making of a masterpiece is now a genre of its own

The original Rocky is remembered as one of cinema's great underdog stories. Yet Sylvester Stallone's struggle to make it could become just as...

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Stela Dey

Anuradha Paudwal has begun her second innings with homophobia. Don’t counter it with logic

After terrorising the stereo of my family’s Tata Indica throughout my childhood, the Bhajan Queen is now back to haunt my feed.

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Prasanna Bachchhav

I wish we will have more people like KPS Gill in our country: Sitaram Yechury

In June 2017, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury delivered a speech at a memorial meeting for former Punjab police chief KPS Gill in New Delhi, praising...

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Sitaram Yechury

More is not better in skin care. Protect your skin barrier

The phrase ‘skin barrier’ has suddenly become fashionable, but very few people understand what it actually means.

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Deepali Bhardwaj

Can a Muslim love Shivaji? Khalid Ke Shivaji asks the question, makes you answer it

Khalid Ke Shivaji is not a film that villainises Hindus or glorifies Muslims. It calls out the machinery of division.

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Triya Gulati

Why France’s 2026 World Cup ended without a medal despite a star-studded attack

England defeated France 6-4 in the 2026 FIFA World Cup third-place match. France arrived with the world's most feared attack. They leave North America...

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Akshat Mohan

It took The Odyssey for Christopher Nolan to finally get female characters right

The Odyssey still centres on Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and his long road home after the Trojan War. But, the women around him are no longer just...

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Triya Gulati

Cabo Verde, Yamal, a vintage Messi—football trumped politics at the 2026 World Cup

When the final whistle blows Monday, politics, wars, immigration debates, and online conspiracy theories will be pushed back where they belong—to...

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Saptak Datta

Faith-tech wears the mask of decolonisation. It’s Brahminical revival

The same institutions selling Hindu heritage as entrepreneurial wisdom have a caste problem no one is talking about.

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Pardeep Attri

Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike exposes the limits of moral protest in today’s India

Despite Sonam Wangchuk’s health conditions, no govt official contacted him. The silence raises a question: does moral protest still have power to...

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Ananya Bhardwaj

Govt looms behind every transaction like an invisible monster: K H Subramaniam

Extent and scope of excise duty is so wide that nothing arrives on the shop counter from which the government has not extracted its unearned profit,...

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K H Subramaniam

Why modern cricket will never make another Garry Sobers

The more structured cricket gets, the less room it leaves for the kind of unstructured genius that built Garry Sobers.

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Triya Gulati

Dua Lipa just killed the Stanley Cup era. Long live the boring water bottle

Social media's obsession with giant insulated tumblers is over as cool girls ditch the viral merch to make hydration simple again.

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Triya Gulati

Alankar Mishra is India’s newest rural gyani influencer. People compare him to Shakespeare

Alankar Mishra’s videos have some permanent fixtures: a blue or brown banyan, a half-smoked joint, and the aura of a man who has cracked the code.

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Himanshi Aggarwal

The Satluj question: When can a state legitimately use extra-judicial force?

Satluj shouldn't have been banned from OTT channels. In today’s social media age, suppression is often counter-productive.

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R Jagannathan

Furore over Lupita Nyong’o’s Helen in Nolan’s Odyssey is about beauty standards, not Homer

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the talk of the town, and so is his Helen, Lupita Nyong'o, as armchair classicists argue that Helen of Troy was...

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Stela Dey

Mollywood Times is one of Indian cinema’s sharpest critiques of film industry

Mollywood Times, directed by Abhinav Sunder Nayak, suggests that major production houses sometimes invest in films for reasons beyond box-office...

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Harsh Tiwari

India-China engagement key to a stable Asian century. Resist unrealistic expectations of trust

For countries across Asia, the evolution of India-China relations is not an abstract geopolitical question. It is directly linked to stability,...

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Milinda Moragoda

England lost the match when Bellingham confronted Messi. He should’ve done his homework

England was comfortably dominating Argentina in the first half of the World Cup semi-final until Jude Bellingham decided to confront Lionel Messi....

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Saptak Datta

Suvendu Adhikari expected at Taslima Nasrin’s Kolkata event. The signal is for Dhaka

Taslima Nasrin was hounded out of Kolkata in 2007. Through his presence at her event, CM Suvendu Adhikari will reiterate BJP’s commitment to...

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Seshadri Chari

Logistics is the new frontier of weaponised interdependence. China has the upper hand

China has treated its logistics platform as a strategic asset. India still discusses logistics data mainly as an efficiency question.

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Swasti Rao

Aamir Khan’s previous marriages were also inter-faith. What changed between 1986, 2005 & 2026?

Neither Hindu right nor conservative Muslim clerics have a coherent case against Aamir Khan's marriage to Gauri Spratt. But that hasn't stopped either...

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Amana Begam

Beyond sacrilege and Satluj, this is how Punjab must fix its fiscal crisis urgently

Punjab’s debt will not shrink and the MSP debate will not be resolved through identity politics or louder television debates, however sincerely the...

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K.b.s Sidhu

Why is CJP talking more about Rahul Gandhi’s absence than Dharmendra Pradhan’s ouster?

No protest movement in the Modi era is ever going to have it as easy as the Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal movement did with UPA-2.

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Vir Sanghvi

Indian women’s cricket Lorded over England in Test, but couldn’t excite Indian papers much

At Lord’s, the Indian women’s cricket team comprehensively defeated England. An epic victory couldn’t make it to the front page, though—not...

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Shailaja Bajpai

Bangladesh Army turns religious. Fidel Castro had warned Sheikh Mujib

The Bangladesh Army has raised a new unit with four companies named after the first four Islamic Caliphs — Umar, Abu Bakr, Ali, and Uthman.

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Deep Halder

India’s growing warship gap with China and Pakistan

The absence of a coherent national security strategy has contributed to a procurement system in which decisions are postponed until the capability gap...

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Amitabh Dubey

Why China built a full-scale replica of a US Navy destroyer in Xinjiang province

For China, a replica Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is turning into a laboratory where PLA studies an adversary’s systems and rehearses actions...

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Sana Hashmi

India’s banks show how AI is impacting jobs. Govt must focus on skilling

At HDFC Bank, the number of non-supervisory staff has declined by close to 5 per cent at the end of March 2026. But the strength of supervisory staff...

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A K Bhattacharya

NCERT’s Class 7 textbook uses the old Preamble without telling students why

NCERT does not identify the image in Class 7 textbook as the original 1949 Preamble, nor does it tell students that they are reading an earlier...

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Vinita Gursahani Singh

What needs to be done to make Delhi EV Policy 2.0 a success

Delhi EV Policy 2.0 is unprecedented in pace and scale for an Indian city. Its goals must be matched by the necessary infrastructure and regulatory...

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Himanshu Pabreja

Sangh Parivar is acting as police, lawyer and judge in Ram temple scam. It’s the accused

More than corruption, this incident demonstrates the incompetence of the RSS-BJP: It proved incapable of managing a uniquely important institution.

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Shankar Sharan

The impossible math of Aamir Khan’s third wedding—A Rs 5 crore bounty and a side of public outrage

Aamir Khan’s wedding provoked such extreme reactions that some are literally offering massive bounties over a senior citizen's love life.

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Insha Jalil Waziri

Lamine Yamal or Kylian Mbappe? There was never a discourse

After Spain routed France 2-0 in the 2026 FIFA World Cup semi-final, it is safe to say that Lamine Yamal has pocketed Kylian Mbappe in all crucial...

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Saptak Datta

Why EU-Mercosur FTA should interest India

India-EU negotiations on investment protection and geographical indications are ongoing. They’re an opportunity for New Delhi to secure terms...

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

From Nehru to Modi, Parliament has often rewritten what the Supreme Court decided

The 2026 law reversing CAPF officers' Supreme Court victory fits into a long constitutional tradition stretching from the First Amendment and Shah...

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Sanjeev Chopra

Why the Ram Mandir Trust allegations strike at the heart of BJP’s politics

Had Ram Mandir-like scandal allegations surfaced in an Opposition-ruled state, the ED would likely have swooped in, invoking the PMLA and pursuing the...

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Sagarika Ghose

Goa in Rains tourism campaign now includes bans, lifeguards, FIRs

There have already been 71 drowning cases in Goa this year. The state govt has done what they can be expected to do. But the rest of us have to take...

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Karanjeet Kaur