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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

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

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...

04.12.2025 9

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

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...

29.11.2025 10

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

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’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

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...

29.11.2025 10

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

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...

28.11.2025 10

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

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...

28.11.2025 9

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

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...

27.11.2025 10

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

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...

27.11.2025 10

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

22.11.2025 10

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

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...

22.11.2025 10

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

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...

18.11.2025 10

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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...

15.11.2025 9

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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...

15.11.2025 9

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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...

15.11.2025 9

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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...

15.11.2025 10

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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...

14.11.2025 10

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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...

12.11.2025 4

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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...

08.11.2025 10

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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...

08.11.2025 10

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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...

06.11.2025 10

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Freebies Over Future: How Fiscal Populism Is Pushing States Into A Debt Trap

The union government has exhibited an impressive degree of fiscal prudence over the past decade. But some states are fiscally profligate and are...

06.11.2025 8

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8th Pay Commission ToR Approved: Justice Ranjana Desai To Head Panel, Salary Hike For 1.2 Crore Central Staff And Pensioners On Cards

Approving the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Eighth Pay Commission, the government has set in motion a huge fiscal exercise that envisages salary...

31.10.2025 10

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Supreme Court Slams Madhya Pradesh HC For Granting Bail To Murder Convicts On Condition Of Planting Saplings

‘Justice is sometimes a farce,’ goes a well-worn axiom. This can now be expanded to include justice as an ecological farce, which would have found...

31.10.2025 10

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Think Clearly, Feel Deeply, Act Decisively: The 3 Pillars Of Spiritual Growth

Very often I am asked, “What are the qualities necessary for spiritual progress?” Some of the answers are based on New Age, airy-fairy ideas of...

31.10.2025 10

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CPI-CPM Rift Over PM SHRI Scheme Decision Persists Despite Kerala Govt’s Policy Pause

The standoff between the CPI and CPM partners in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala over the state government’s U-turn on the PM SHRI...

31.10.2025 10

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India’s Rising Household Debt: From Caution And Thrift To Consumption And Credit

India’s households, long regarded as cautious savers, are quietly taking on record lev-els of debt. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s...

31.10.2025 10

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RJD’s Manifesto In Bihar Elections Promises Moon, But Offers Little Ground Reality

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Opposition in Bihar has stolen a march over the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) by being the first to...

31.10.2025 10

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India’s Proposal To Mandate AI-Generated Content Labelling Marks A Crucial Step In Regulating Deepfakes

The Union government’s proposal to make labelling of synthetic content generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems mandatory is a timely and...

28.10.2025 9

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Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli Script Emotional Farewell Masterclass As India Crush Australia In Final ODI At Sydney

For a match that was technically dead—Australia having already sealed the three-match ODI series—the final encounter at the Sydney Cricket Ground...

28.10.2025 10

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Andhra Pradesh Highway Tragedy Sparks Debate On Sleeper Bus Safety Standards In India

The fiery bus crash on a highway in Andhra Pradesh that killed at least 20 people might have been less deadly if it had seats instead of sleeper...

28.10.2025 8

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Rodrigo Paz Wins Bolivian Presidency, Ending 2 Decades Of Leftist Rule

Bolivian voters have repudiated two decades of leftist rule and overwhelmingly backed a centrist senator and son of a former president in Sunday’s...

28.10.2025 9

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‘No Kings’ Protests Across All 50 US States Signal Growing Discontent Against Trump’s Authoritarian Rule

The October 18 ‘No Kings’ protests that swept through all 50 US states may be nowhere near emerging as a vibrant resistance movement against...

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President Droupadi Murmu’s Historic Sabarimala Visit Marks Devotion And Diversity, Marred By Security And Gold Theft Controversies

President Droupadi Murmu created history of sorts when she visited the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district. No head of...

24.10.2025 10

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The Middle Path Of Self-Esteem: Balancing Validation And Authenticity

The need for external validation is quite human. Some insecurity about others' opinions is natural. However, in many of us, it reaches completely...

24.10.2025 10

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The Modi Enigma: India Wants Its PM To Be A Nationalist

A dispassionate look at the 75 years of Narendra Modi reveals how every major incident and event in his life was structured in a manner to ensure the...

24.10.2025 20

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India’s 6-Year Aatmanirbhar Mission On Pulses: Can ₹11,440-Crore Plan Deliver True Self-Sufficiency By 2030?

Recently approved by the Union cabinet, the 6-year Mission for Aatmanirbhar in Pulses from 2025-26 to 2030-31, with a financial outlay of Rs 11,440...

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