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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...


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


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


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...


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


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


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


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...


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...


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...


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


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


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


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...


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


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


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


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

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

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

“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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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