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How Maharashtra Law University Fills Reserved PhD Seats With General Category Students

Listen to this article: Mangaluru: The Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU), Nagpur advertised 35 seats for its PhD programme this year. As per...

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The Wire

Sukanya Shantha

D.K. Shivakumar Takes Oath as Karnataka Chief Minister, G. Parameshwara Becomes Deputy Chief Minister

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar was sworn-in as the chief minister of...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Opinion | Trump Has New Plans For How America Deals With China

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NDTV

Harsh V Pant

Cockroach Janta Party Appoints Three Spokespersons Ahead of Its Protest Against Education Ministry

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a satirical political brand that has rapidly gained social media traction since...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

How These Indian Cities And States Are Managing VIP Movement Without Bringing Traffic to a Halt

How These Indian Cities And States Are Managing VIP Movement Without Bringing Traffic to a Halt

On the evening of 1 June 2026, a Bengaluru resident sat in the middle of Old Airport Road in protest after traffic police halted all movement for...

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The Better India

Avantika krishna

Kerala Engineer Quits Job To Follow His Passion And Finds A 69-YO River Cleaning Hero

Kerala Engineer Quits Job To Follow His Passion And Finds A 69-YO River Cleaning Hero

On most days, people crossed the bridge over Kerala’s Meenachil River without slowing down. Boats drifted gently below, plastic bottles floated...

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The Better India

Raajwrita Dutta

Amit Shah to Review Amarnath Yatra Security Preparedness

Amit Shah to Review Amarnath Yatra Security Preparedness

New Delhi : Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level security review meeting in the national capital on June 8 to assess preparations for...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Monitor News Bureau

Trump can’t force the Abraham Accords

US President Donald Trump’s late-May 2026 demand that virtually every Arab and Islamic State “mandatorily” join the Abraham Accords — and do...

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hindustantimes

Hindustantimes Editorial

Poor Motor Coordination, Higher Anxiety and More: AIIMS Study Maps How Air Pollution Stunts Foetal Growth

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A study conducted by researchers in AIIMS, Delhi has traced the exact biological chain through which urban air...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Dear Gen Z, you don't need to be treated like cockroaches, you can change the system from within

Dear Gen Z, you don't need to be treated like cockroaches, you can change the system from within

If all else fails, take your case to court. But for that, you need to have a case, not just a set of slogans or memes expressing your frustrations

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Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

One Indian Dead in Kuwait Airport Attack, MEA Asks All Parties to Stop Targeting Civilians

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The external affairs ministry on Wednesday (June 3) condemned the Iranian drone and missile attack on Kuwait...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Hind Rajab Foundation Urges India to Arrest Israeli Soldier Holidaying in Himachal for 'War Crimes'

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed a complaint with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, Bureau of...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Ritabrata Banerjee’s Hostile Capture of Trinamool Congress Strengthens BJP

Listen to this article: Kolkata: Ritabrata Banerjee, a newly elected MLA, has laid claim to the legislative identity of the All India Trinamool...

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The Wire

Aparna Bhattacharya

Dr Imtiaz Wani earns praise for service to needy

Dr Imtiaz Wani earns praise for service to needy

SRINAGAR: Renowned Consultant Surgeon Dr Imtiaz Wani of Government Gousia Hospital, Srinagar, is receiving widespread appreciation from various...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Monitor News Bureau

What Annamalai Taught The BJP About Tamil Nadu And The Party May Regret Not Heeding

What Annamalai Taught The BJP About Tamil Nadu And The Party May Regret Not Heeding

Annamalai may have failed to win the BJP a seat in 2024, but his greatest success might yet be organisational

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News18

Rahul Shivshankar

At AIIMS Deoghar, ICU Operates at Half Capacity, Critical Care Unit Still Shut

Listen to this article: New Delhi: At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Deoghar, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is operating at half...

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The Wire

Ankit Raj

Musicians Pay All-Day Tribute to Pandit Bhajan Sopori

Musicians Pay All-Day Tribute to Pandit Bhajan Sopori

New Delhi: Musicians from across India came together in a rare day-long musical gathering at Jhankar Hall, Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi, to...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Monitor News Bureau

India, Globally: The Mistreatment of Workers and Religious Minorities in Modi's 'One-Party' State

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

The Wire Staff

Delhi Hotel Fire Kills 21, PM Modi, Omar Abdullah Express Grief

Delhi Hotel Fire Kills 21, PM Modi, Omar Abdullah Express Grief

New Delhi: At least 21 people were killed and several others injured after a devastating fire swept through a hotel building in South Delhi’s...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Monitor News Bureau

CBSE ignored all the red flags. Now students are paying the price

CBSE ignored all the red flags. Now students are paying the price
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Indian Express

Subimal Bhattacharjee

Opinion | The China Shock 2.0 May Already Be Here

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NDTV

Kent deng

Art Historian Puts Siddi Community’s Traditional Craft of Quilt Making on The World Map

Art Historian Puts Siddi Community’s Traditional Craft of Quilt Making on The World Map

Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. In a small hamlet in Karnataka’s...

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The Better India

Krystelle Dsouza

‘Getting panic attacks’: College deadlines loom with students trapped in CBSE chaos

Saransh, 19, from Meerut, had been studying twelve to thirteen hours a day since mid-April, surviving on sleepless nights and BITSAT mock tests,...

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newslaundry

Shardool Katyayan

Ringside View | It's Vinesh Phogat vs The Will Of The Universe

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NDTV

Written by rica roy

CBSE Faces Fresh Scrutiny Over Ignoring OSM Tender Warnings, Dry Run Flags

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, already under fire for...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Is apex court’s confidence in SIR exercise misplaced?

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s verdict last week upholding the constitutional validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), senior advocate...

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hindustantimes

Insiyah Vahanvaty

At Least 21 Dead in South Delhi Restaurant Fire

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A fire on June 3, at a Malviya Nagar restaurant in New Delhi, has killed least 21 people. The Delhi Fire Services...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

Dear Gen Z, you don't need to be treated like cockroaches, you can change the system from within

Dear Gen Z, you don't need to be treated like cockroaches, you can change the system from within

If all else fails, take your case to court. But for that, you need to have a case, not just a set of slogans or memes expressing your frustrations

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Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Dachigam Open for Visitors, No Restrictions Imposed Today: Clarifies Govt

Dachigam Open for Visitors, No Restrictions Imposed Today: Clarifies Govt

Srinagar: The Government on Wednesday clarified that entry to Dachigam National Park remains fully open for visitors and no restrictions have been...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Monitor News Bureau

For Centuries, These Himalayan Water Mills Have Ground Flour Without Electricity or Fuel

For Centuries, These Himalayan Water Mills Have Ground Flour Without Electricity or Fuel

In the remote villages of the Himalayas, where mountain streams rush down rugged slopes, an age-old technology continues to serve local communities....

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The Better India

Raajwrita Dutta

Opinion | Veil Of Ignorance To Welfare Reach: Secularism Through PM Modi's Governance Model

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NDTV

Dilip Mandal

West Bengal’s rise needs new energy, where is it?

With a new government taking shape in West Bengal, one of its defining challenges will be reviving the state’s economic momentum. Despite its...

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hindustantimes

Aparna Roy

Administrative Faultlines And Political Control: Sukhu's Bureaucratic Balancing Act Before 2027

Administrative Faultlines And Political Control: Sukhu's Bureaucratic Balancing Act Before 2027

The elevation of a relatively non-controversial Chief Secretary marks an attempt to steady Himachal Pradesh’s fractured administrative machinery,...

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Free Press Journal

Ks Tomar

OPINION | How TMC Lost Bengal: Abhishek Banerjee’s ‘Corporate Model’, I-PAC And Crisis Of Cadre Politics

OPINION | How TMC Lost Bengal: Abhishek Banerjee’s ‘Corporate Model’, I-PAC And Crisis Of Cadre Politics

The Trinamool Congress (TMC), founded by Mamata Banerjee as a vehicle for grassroots resistance against the Left’s long dominance in West Bengal,...

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ABP Live

Sayantan Ghosh

3 Friends & a Health-Tech Startup Make Doctors Available in Rural India For Just Re 1

3 Friends & a Health-Tech Startup Make Doctors Available in Rural India For Just Re 1

Originally reported and written in May 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Akanksh Tandon fondly recalls playing...

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The Better India

Shivani Gupta

65°C on the ground: Delhi’s bus stops are turning into heat traps

Delhi’s Heat Action Plan says passengers should have access to basic amenities such as drinking water at buses and bus stops. But our ground report...

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newslaundry

Akankhya Rout

The Modi paradox in 2026. Complete political domination alongside worsening economic slide

Depending on which cut-off one picks, the overall investment rate in India since the rise of Modi has basically been quite flat or has even slightly...

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ThePrint

Ashutosh Varshney

पारंपरिक द्रविड़ मॉडल की जगह ले रहा है नव द्रविड़वाद

Neo-Dravidianism : सरल शब्दों में कहें, तो क्या डीएमके की नवीनतम...

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Prabhat Khabar

आर राजगोपालन

Why PM Modi ‘personally supervising’ NEET-UG is riddled with problems

How PM Narendra Modi, who has completed 12 years in office, goes from here would be keenly watched. It could give an inkling of his plans for 2029 and...

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ThePrint

D.k. Singh

MEA slams EU-Pak remarks on J&K

MEA slams EU-Pak remarks on J&K

New Delhi, Jun 2: India on Tuesday strongly rejected references to Jammu and Kashmir in a joint press communique issued following the 8th round of the...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Agencies

BTA Pressure? Why US Proposal on 12.5% Tariffs on India Over Forced Labour Concerns Raises Questions

Listen to this article: The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) launched two separate Section 301 investigations on March 11 and...

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The Wire

Ajay Srivastava

Nepal’s Lamichhane Meets Modi Amid Frictions Over India’s Use of the Lipulekh Route

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Nepal’s new ruling party chief, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chairman Rabi Lamichhane met Prime Minister...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

What the Parents of Exam-Giving Children In India Should Consider

Listen to this article: Dear Parents of Children Who Recently Gave CBSE and/or NEET exams, This is a difficult time for many of you. I sympathise. As...

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The Wire

Rohit Kumar

Hyderabad hasn’t given up on American Dream. It’s just changed the destination to Germany

Hyderabad will continue to grow as an IT hub. But the larger aspiration of moving abroad has been driven by the belief that life is inherently better...

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ThePrint

Yunus Lasania

सिजेरियन प्रसव में नहीं आ रही है कमी

सिजेरियन प्रसव में नहीं आ रही है कमी

cesarean deliveries : नवीनतम सर्वेक्षण एनएफएचएस-5 (2019-21) की तुलना में...

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Prabhat Khabar

Rajneesh Anand

The Constitution Is the Hero in a Recent Graphic Book, 'We Are in the Post-Interval Phase of This Movie Now'

Listen to this article: Their new graphic book, The Discovery of New* India (Conditions Apply) is out.  A joy to read, despite being about extremely...

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The Wire

Seema Chishti

Kashmir’s Traditional water mills dying a slow death

Kashmir’s Traditional water mills dying a slow death

Srinagar: The wooden wheel creaks briefly inside a small stone-and-timber structure in Guiwa village of Baramulla. Seventy-two-year-old Abdul Rashid...

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The Kashmir Monitor News

Firdous Hassan

Great Nicobar Project Entails 'Perversion of Due Process' Says Jairam Ramesh In Response To Bhupender Yadav’s Latest Letter

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on June 3 that the government’s...

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The Wire

The Wire Staff

How a Homemaker Turned Sarpanch Helped Push Drugs Out of 5 Himachal Villages

How a Homemaker Turned Sarpanch Helped Push Drugs Out of 5 Himachal Villages

The school courtyard is louder than usual. A group of teenagers stand in a semicircle, some holding hand-painted banners and others mid-dialogue in a...

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The Better India

Nishtha Kawrani

In Khoda, Nobody Knows Why Surya and Asad Fought. That Hasn't Stopped a Communal Narrative From Taking Hold

New Delhi: The lanes in Khoda, Ghaziabad, are so narrow that everybody is in everybody else’s life. Wires hang low overhead. Houses stand...

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The Wire

Pragya singh and