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India A Serious Space Contender As ISRO’s BlueBird Launch Signals Global Commercial Leap

India A Serious Space Contender As ISRO’s BlueBird Launch Signals Global Commercial Leap

The successful launch of BlueBird Block-2 aboard ISRO’s LVM3 rocket marks a strategic leap for India in the global commercial space market. With...

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Cousins Unite To Survive: Why Thackeray Alliance Is About Political Relevance In Mumbai

Cousins Unite To Survive: Why Thackeray Alliance Is About Political Relevance In Mumbai

Uddhav and Raj Thackeray’s alliance for the BMC elections is driven less by sentiment and more by survival. Facing the threat of political...

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India–New Zealand FTA: Why Trade Agreements Matter In A Fragmenting Global Economy

India–New Zealand FTA: Why Trade Agreements Matter In A Fragmenting Global Economy

Trade agreements involve compromise, not perfection. The India–New Zealand FTA reflects a pragmatic approach to economic cooperation amid global...

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Justice Delayed, But Not Denied: The Akhlaq Case Ruling Matters

Justice Delayed, But Not Denied: The Akhlaq Case Ruling Matters

A decade after Mohammed Akhlaq was lynched in Dadri, a fast-track court has rightly rejected the UP government’s plea to withdraw prosecution. The...

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Maharashtra’s Civic Verdict: Power Consolidation Amid Democratic Concerns

Maharashtra’s Civic Verdict: Power Consolidation Amid Democratic Concerns

The BJP-led Mahayuti’s strong showing in Maharashtra’s local body polls confirms its dominance, but allegations of irregularities, large-scale...

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‘Behnon Aur Bhaiyon…’: Radio Ceylon Turns 100 And Celebrates A Shared South Asian Legacy

‘Behnon Aur Bhaiyon…’: Radio Ceylon Turns 100 And Celebrates A Shared South Asian Legacy

As Sri Lanka marks 100 years of Radio Ceylon, the editorial revisits its global wartime role and its deep cultural bond with India—especially...

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Karnataka’s Hate Speech Law And The Fine Line Between Deterrence And Democratic Freedoms

Karnataka’s Hate Speech Law And The Fine Line Between Deterrence And Democratic Freedoms

As Karnataka proposes stricter hate speech laws amid global concern over violence-fuelled rhetoric, the real challenge lies in precise definitions and...

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Power, Patriarchy And The Politics Of Humiliation: Nitish Kumar Crosses A Line

Power, Patriarchy And The Politics Of Humiliation: Nitish Kumar Crosses A Line

Nitish Kumar’s act of forcibly removing a Muslim woman doctor’s veil in public was a grave violation of dignity and consent. The episode exposes...

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Freedom Of Choice And Decision Anxiety

Freedom Of Choice And Decision Anxiety

While this is experienced as true, one should not forget that the freedom of choice is a glory of a human being. Only humans can wake up in the...

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India Tops Global Anti-Doping Violations For Third Year, Raising Concerns Ahead Of 2036 Olympics

India Tops Global Anti-Doping Violations For Third Year, Raising Concerns Ahead Of 2036 Olympics

The malaise runs so deep that even school athletics meets are tainted by doping claims. Used syringes lying discarded on washroom floors are a common...

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SHANTI Bill 2025 Opens India’s Nuclear Sector To Private Players Amid Liability Concerns

SHANTI Bill 2025 Opens India’s Nuclear Sector To Private Players Amid Liability Concerns

Proponents of private sector participation will welcome this as a long-overdue reform. Critics, however, may not find much comfort in the degree of...

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Mumbaikars, Speak Up And demand A Better City!

Mumbaikars, Speak Up And demand A Better City!

As BMC elections return after years of delay, this opinion piece questions whether civic polls truly improve Mumbai’s quality of life or merely...

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Bondi Horror Is a Stark Reminder That Terrorism Is Driven By Hate, Not Religion

Bondi Horror Is a Stark Reminder That Terrorism Is Driven By Hate, Not Religion

A terror attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a Hannukah gathering killed at least 15 people, exposing the deadly reality of antisemitic hatred....

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BJP’s Surprise Choice: Nitin Nabin Emerges As Modi–Shah Pick For Party President

BJP’s Surprise Choice: Nitin Nabin Emerges As Modi–Shah Pick For Party President

The BJP has named Bihar minister Nitin Nabin as its new working president, paving the way for him to become national president in 2026. Seen as a...

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Prada’s Kolhapuri Deal Promises Prestige — But Will India’s Artisans Get Their Fair Share?

Prada’s Kolhapuri Deal Promises Prestige — But Will India’s Artisans Get Their Fair Share?

With the Italian luxury brand Prada signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two government organisations that represent the interests of the...

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Engaging The Taliban: India’s Strategic Shift Comes With High Stakes

Engaging The Taliban: India’s Strategic Shift Comes With High Stakes

India’s permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Parvathaneni Harish’s statement calling for a “practical engagement with the Taliban”...

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India Breathes Toxic Air — And The Centre Claims It Has No Record Of Damage

India Breathes Toxic Air — And The Centre Claims It Has No Record Of Damage

India’s junior health minister Prataprao Jadhav’s admission in Parliament that the Union government does not have the data on the deaths and...

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SIR Chaos Exposes Systemic Faults — The Supreme Court Draws A Red Line

SIR Chaos Exposes Systemic Faults — The Supreme Court Draws A Red Line

The Supreme Court’s intervention in the ongoing controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls could not have come at a...

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Rubaiya Sayeed Kidnapping Case: After 36 Years, CBI Arrest Exposes India’s Deep Failures In Justice And National Security

The Central Bureau of Investigation’s custody of Shafat Ahmad Shangloo—an alleged JKLF functionary who reportedly handled the outfit’s...

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Madhya Pradesh Ministers Holding Grievance Hearings At BJP Office Undermines Constitutional Governance

Allowing government authority to shift from the secretariat to a party office blurs the line between state and party—and threatens administrative...

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Merit, Not Faith: Vaishnodevi Medical College Row Tests India’s Commitment To Rule Of Law

“One cannot have the cake and eat it too”. This old adage comes unbidden to mind in the context of the latest controversy over admissions to the...

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Swami Vivekananda On The Continuity Of Mind And Power Of Thought-Transference

Have you ever noticed the phenomenon that is called thought-transference? A man here is thinking something, and that thought is manifested in somebody...

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India’s Commonwealth Games Triumph: Ahmedabad 2030 Signals A Sporting Nation Ready For The World

India has every reason to be proud of earning the right to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games in Ahmedabad. It is more than a sporting honour; it is a...

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South Africa’s ‘Grovel’ Remark Rekindles Old Ghosts, Overshadows Historic Test Victory

The ghosts of Tony Greig and Hansie Cronje must be having a chuckle at the end of the second Test at Guwahati between India and South Africa, in which...

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India’s Test Cricket Crisis: Home Fortress Collapses As Leadership Drift, Selection Chaos And IPL Obsession Take Their Toll

Indian cricket’s much-vaunted home track record, which started in the 1990s under the captaincy of Mohammad Azharuddin and cricket manager Ajit...

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X’s Location-Tracking Shake-Up Exposes Global Fake Influencers – And Raises Big Questions About Online Credibility

The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has created a sensation after it revealed that several influential accounts carrying out online flame...

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Inordinate Delay In Kharif 2025-26 Estimates Raises Serious Concerns Over India’s Crop Data System

It is the last week of November, and yet there is no sign of the ‘First Advance Estimates of Production’ of foodgrains, oilseeds and other...

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Karnataka Power Struggle Exposes Congress’s Crisis: Internal Democracy Or Indiscipline?

For several weeks now, two towering Congress leaders—Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar—have been locked in a...

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Dharmendra: The Original He-Man Of Bollywood Whose 6-Decade Journey Defined Stardom

In a very significant way, Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who died in Mumbai on Monday after being ill for a short time, was multifaceted. He mastered...

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Centre’s Misstep On Chandigarh Risks Rekindling Punjab’s Old Wounds And Political Distrust

The NDA government at the Centre seems to have bitten off more than it could chew when word spread about its proposal to alter the constitutional...

26.11.2025 4

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Supreme Court’s Order On Governors’ Assent Powers Leaves States In A Constitutional Grey Zone

Former Chief Justice of India BR Gavai’s comments on the import of the Supreme Court’s five-judge bench order in the presidential reference case...

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Ayyappa Worship: A Pilgrimage Beyond Rituals, Rooted In Discipline And Quest For Moksha

Very often, in South Indian temples nowadays, you see men wearing black clothes, unshaven, doing their worship. In some temples, you also see coconuts...

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Supreme Court’s Tribunal Verdict Restores Judicial Primacy And Demands An Independent National Tribunals Commission

Though 84 years have passed since the first tribunal for income-tax disputes was established, India still does not have a comprehensive system to...

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SC’s Recall Of Vanashakti Order Undermines India’s Environmental Jurisprudence And Weakens Precautionary Principle

In a deeply disappointing interpretation of environmental regulations, the Supreme Court has recalled its earlier order in the Vanashakti vs Union of...

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Supreme Court Exposes India’s Motor Insurance Crisis As Half Vehicles Remain Uninsured

A motor vehicle accident case dating back to 1996 has invited much-needed scrutiny by the Supreme Court of the mess that the motor vehicle accident...

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Nowgam Blast Raises Serious Questions Over Police Protocols In Handling Seized Ammonium Nitrate

The explosion outside the Nowgam police station in Srinagar on Friday—which killed nine persons and injured 32—ranks among the worst tragedies the...

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India’s Gold Import Surge Raises Tough Questions On CEPA And Bullion Transparency

At a time when the country faces a chronic goods trade deficit (crude oil, precious stones, metals, electrical and electronic equipment, edible oil,...

15.11.2025 8

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Modern Education Can’t Counter Fanatic Conditioning: Why Ethical Dharma Is Key To Preventing Terrorism

We always believed that modern education would take care of the problem of terrorism; that terrorists were misguided, uneducated youth. The recent...

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Red Fort Blast Probe Reveals White-Collar Radicalisation Risks, Calls For Transparency In NIA Briefings

There has been considerable headway in the investigation into the “terrorist incident” that rocked the Red Fort area of Delhi three days ago. The...

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Why India’s 2025 Women’s World Cup Triumph Isn’t Comparable To 1983 Miracle

While the nation is still aglow following the triumph of the Indian team at the ICC Women’s World Cup (50 overs) at Navi Mumbai on Nov 2—the first...

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Nithari Killings: Supreme Court Acquittal Of Surendra Koli Exposes Deep Fault Lines In India’s Criminal Justice System

After nearly two decades, the prime accused in the Nithari serial killings case, Surendra Koli, who was convicted by several courts in 13 cases, was...

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Supreme Court’s Push For Blockchain In Property Deals Can Revolutionise India’s Archaic Land System

The Supreme Court’s recent observations on the lack of reliability, transparency and efficiency in the purchase and sale of immovable property, and...

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When Protesting For Clean Air Becomes A Crime — Delhi’s Smog, State Apathy And The Right To Breathe

That people of all persuasions and ages had to gather near the India Gate to protest the toxic air in India’s national capital and demand executive...

14.11.2025 4

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Rising Chronic Kidney Disease Cases In South Asia Spark Alarm: Experts Urge India To Launch National Mission For Prevention And Early Detection

The latest data on the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in South Asia, indicating that 16% of the population is affected, should be seen as a...

12.11.2025 4

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Shashi Tharoor: Congress’s Maverick Intellectual Who Refuses To Toe Party Line

How do you solve a problem like Shashi Tharoor? This is a question that must be baffling the Congress leadership. The four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP...

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Bhajan Clubbing — A Trendy Social Detox, Not True Spirituality

There's a new trend in major Indian cities going by the name of "Bhajan clubbing”. When I first heard about it, I wondered what it meant. People are...

08.11.2025 10

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Rahul Gandhi Alleges Massive Voter Fraud In Haryana Elections; EC Urged To Act To Preserve Electoral Integrity

Whether what Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi detonated on Wednesday was a hydrogen bomb or some other kind, he succeeded in convincing many that the...

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US Elections Signal Major Setback For Trump As Voter Disillusionment Soars; Immigrant Leaders Make Gains

The results of the recent elections in the United States are a body blow to President Donald Trump. Though these were not nationwide contests, they...

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Trump’s Nuclear Claims Expose Global Double Standards — And A Growing Threat For India

The credibility of US President Donald Trump is such that one often does not know whether to laugh or to cry over his statements, which are frequently...

06.11.2025 9

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Shashi Tharoor’s Attack On Dynasty Politics Rings Hollow Without Introspection

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has once again stirred unease within his party, this time by writing an article denouncing dynasty politics. He argues that...

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