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Resurrecting the ghost of Babri in a highly communally sensitive border region like West Bengal is portentous


Narendra Modi has been stressing on it from long before he became Prime Minister. But in his third term, decolonisation is a stated goal


A stranded flyer could represent thousands as the lead petitioner, seeking aggregated damages per person for agony and loss


The growing soft power of the Hornbill festival is an opportunity to heal and build the region


The BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has decided to fast-track thousands of citizenship applications for Bangladeshi Hindus


These unrests are not homegrown cyclones but lightning rods imported to fracture Bharat’s unity

The exposé comes across as the party’s over-dependence on external networks & volume-over-quality approach by hiring cheap overseas operators...

It would hand legitimacy and huge popularity to the interim Muhammad Yunus government. Execution of "the fascist dictator" would become the...

Ayodhya is now not just the heart of India’s spirituality; it is slowly transforming into an economic and tourism powerhouse

By turning the legal process into a farce, Bangladesh has only hastened its own spiral into a frenzied, Islamist anarchy

There are numerous examples internationally of the topmost terrorists being from wealthy, educated backgrounds

Winning six of the 61 seats it contested has not only left the Congress remorseless, but even more recalcitrant as it has doubled down on its...

Jihadis break every rule in the book. But when the fear that their families may pay dearly for harbouring or helping them is drilled in, the game...

The government has prioritised sports as a tool to empower the youth, forge national unity, and spur economic growth

Debate rages over the proposal to reduce the age of consent from 18 to 16 under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Section 63...

India could emerge as the US's arsenal foundry, with America giving defence manufacturing contracts to India like F-414 engines and MQ-9 drones.

A despotic and blanket ban on the Awami League (AL) is looking increasingly vengeful, self-serving, and untenable on the part of Yunus and his...

There are quite a few things that Modi’s silence and elusiveness in meeting Trump at this stage achieve

Unless Bharat begins to take its own story seriously, vultures will come to feast

To protect itself, Russia has needed to focus on buffer states to the west like Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States for defensive depth.

Kukis are so afraid to enter the Meitei zone that instead of using the Imphal airport, which is just over an hour away, they travel 12–13 hours to...

Bangladesh’s Bengali identity is being corroded daily; a hard, Islamist identity is being rapidly foisted to completely replace Bangaliana one day

Mayawati’s gesture softens the resistance among Dalit voters towards the BJP and blunts the SP-Congress’s ‘Constitution-in-danger’ narrative...

In West Bengal, the fluid borders have resulted in the Hindu population slipping from 78.45 per cent in 1951 to 70.54 per cent in 2011

The October 7 massacre by Hamas of over 1,200 people has forced us to entirely rethink our ideas about terrorism

Indians gained confidence since liberalisation and the new wave of nationalism, but still lack courage to defend their identity & be proud of the...

'I Love Muhammad' seems right out of the playbook of the master puppeteers, who want to rouse up volatile Muslim youth and trigger some of...

Both Tamil Nadu politics and society need a turning point for which Election 2026 provides a window of opportunity

The experiences from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal show that society and economy needs to be shielded from disruptions often funded by interest...

The September 21 speech was the curtain-raiser for Bharat’s forthcoming all-out Swadeshi push

India can now push towards global delivery centres and remote engineering and R&D hubs. The government can provide incentives to upskill the...

The churn of time has thrown up Narendra Modi. No individual inspires the new Right or enjoys its trust more than Prime Minister Modi.

The Congress could end up with an offer of merely 30 seats on the table this time unless the elders Lalu Prasad and Sonia Gandhi step in again

When all the western nations sanctioned India during the war against Pakistan, one nation helped her grandmother Indira Gandhi with mortar and...

Who throws the wrecking ball is anybody’s guess. But the fall of the skittles in the region is for all to see

When a sitting CM joins bigots in outraging against the very symbols of the nation that they have sworn under oath to protect, it raises the question:...

The story of the unmarked graves had been contorted to suit Islamists’ agenda, keep Indian forces on the defensive, and even justify the ethnic...

Onam is too big to be left solely to Hindus, but too Hindu for their bedfellows, Islamists, to swallow. And that has led to a rare bout of friction...

A man who can go to the length of inventing a fake economist to mouth his own views can easily extrapolate that disingenuity in the much larger...

The RSS has always been an organisation which favours gradual change through mellow, decent language and gritty, measured, and long-term action

Bluster and coarse humour have helped both Trump and Lalu push the envelope on political impropriety or throw closest aides under the bus in a flash...

Many believe CIBIL's credit-rating process to be opaque & lacking sound redressal mechanisms, but with the staggering power to make or break...

Sergio Gor, who was born in Tashkent of Soviet-ruled Uzbekistan in 1986 and grew up as a child in Malta, breathes in rarefied air of US President...

Stopping dogs from roaming the streets is not an act of cruelty, but of empathy. The most developed, disciplined, and considerate countries do it.

In spite of 100 years of unsparing, often violent efforts of so-called secular forces, the RSS has got legitimised

The India-US ties will survive Trump, but it will need unnecessary time and energy to rebuild

The next elections—maybe up to 2029 and beyond—will be fought on demography, the biggest marker of Bharat’s destiny

The illegal influx of Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims is wrecking Jharkhand’s demography, gobbling up the same tribal land that Soren once fought...

Even in the face of a million denials, there is no escape from the truth: the demographic war against Hindu-majority India has intensified

In spite of being in a coalition government, Vajpayee went ahead with the nuclear tests in May 1998, knowing fully what was to come.
