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Suvendu Adhikari to move court after his defamation notice deadline ends for CM Mamata Banerjee

Following the expiration of the defamation notice deadline issued by Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, to...

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Policy Crossroads

A sanctions bill moving through the US Congress would, if enacted, authorise punitive “secondary” trade measures ~ potentially including tariffs...

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Politics on Pitch

For a country that prides itself on treating cricket as both sport and soft power, India is surprisingly careless when it comes to separating the two....

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Dengue Moment

For a country that has lived with dengue as a seasonal inevitability, the emergence of DengiAll, India’s indigenous single-shot dengue vaccine now...

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Procedural Overreach

The controversy over the notice issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is not really about a clerical error or an age mismatch. It is about the...

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Forgotten Courage

For decades, the 1962 war has occupied an awkward place in India’s national memory. It is recalled more for strategic failure than for individual...

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Dhaka Reset

India’s diplomacy in South Asia has often been accused of being overly personality-driven, tethered to familiar interlocutors and legacy...

11.01.2026 10

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Conditional Liberty

The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam does more than decide the fate of two undertrials. It exposes a...

11.01.2026 10

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After Caracas

Venezuela was not an aberration. It was a declaration. The forcible removal of Nicolás Maduro was presented as a corrective to criminality and...

10.01.2026 40

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National Blindspot

The murder of a young man from the Northeast in a northern Indian city is not just a crime; it is a mirror held up to a society that still struggles...

09.01.2026 10

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Grounded Ambitions

India’s aviation boom has become a shorthand for its economic momentum. Passenger numbers are rising sharply, airports are expanding, and domestic...

09.01.2026 10

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When Water Kills

The deaths linked to contaminated tap water in Indore are not merely a tragic municipal failure; they expose a deeper contradiction at the heart of...

08.01.2026 10

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Power and Legitimacy

The capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by the United States has forced the international community to confront an uncomfortable reality: the...

08.01.2026 10

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Elusive Peace

The renewed talk of peace in Ukraine carries an air of exhaustion rather than optimism. After years of attrition, all sides speak the language of...

07.01.2026 20

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Urban Disconnect

The release of Uttar Pradesh’s draft electoral rolls has done more than trigger routine political anxiety ~ it has revealed a structural disconnect...

06.01.2026 10

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Chicken’s Neck

It is not just elements on the fringes of the Bangladesh establishment who have threatened to exploit India’s vulnerability in the Siliguri...

05.01.2026 10

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Strategic Shrug

US President Donald Trump’s decision to publicly shrug off China’s latest military drills around Taiwan may sound reassuring, but it masks a far...

05.01.2026 10

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256 Naxals killed, over 1,500 surrendered in 2025 as Bastar sees decisive Anti-Maoist push: IG P Sundarraj

Bastar Range Inspector General of Police P. Sundarraj said that 2025 marked a decisive turning point in the fight against Left-Wing Extremism in the...

05.01.2026 10

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Viral India

India’s viral moments over the year gone by offer more than a light-hearted rewind of what trended online. Taken together, they reveal how the...

04.01.2026 10

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Clearer Contours

What the world is entering now is not a sudden crisis, but the moment when a long, uneven transition becomes impossible to ignore. The geopolitical...

04.01.2026 10

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Editing the Future

India has quietly crossed a scientific threshold in its northernmost region. At a state agricultural university in Kashmir, researchers have...

01.01.2026 10

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Without choice

Nearly five years after Myanmar’s military seized power, the generals have returned to a familiar ritual: the ballot box. But this election, held in...

01.01.2026 10

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Tense Pause

After weeks of artillery fire, air strikes and mass displacement, the ceasefire along the Thailand-Cambodia border has brought a moment of stillness...

31.12.2025 30

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Rights or Relief

The decision to repeal a long-standing rural employment guarantee and replace it with a new framework has reopened a fundamental debate about how...

31.12.2025 10

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Strikes and Stories

The recent US air strikes in north-western Nigeria signal more than a tactical military action against jihadist groups; they reveal how global...

30.12.2025 10

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Beyond the glare

India’s solar story is often told as a clean break from a coal-heavy past: sunlight replacing smoke, rooftops turning blue, and power flowing...

30.12.2025 20

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Unfinished Justice

The sudden discovery of more than a million additional documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein does not merely extend a scandal; it reopens a fundamental...

29.12.2025 20

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Return, reckoning

The return of Tarique Rahman to Bangladesh after nearly two decades in exile is more than a personal political comeback. It marks a decisive moment in...

29.12.2025 10

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Test of intentions

Ukraine’s latest peace proposal marks a subtle but significant shift in how Kyiv is trying to end a war that has long defied clean diplomatic...

28.12.2025 10

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Narrow victory

The razor-thin outcome of Honduras’s presidential election reveals less about partisan strength than about the vulnerability of democratic...

28.12.2025 20

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Defining Aravallis

The renewed debate over the Aravalli hills exposes a familiar fault line in India’s environmental governance: the tension between ecological...

27.12.2025 10

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Fractured ties

Relations between India and Bangladesh are entering one of their most fragile phases in decades, not because of a single diplomatic dispute but due to...

27.12.2025 10

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Tracks of Tragedy

The deaths of seven elephants on a railway track in Assam are not just a tragic accident; they are a stark reminder of how India continues to...

26.12.2025 8

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Rising above the din

When ‘Babu’ and ‘Da’ become national issues, the voice of a 22-year-old Aurobindo Ghosh from Baroda can still be heard above the political din...

26.12.2025 9

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Cooked Slowly

Global recognition has finally caught up with what Lucknow has long known about itself: that its food is not just cuisine, but culture carefully...

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Cannabis Shift

The recent executive order to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug represents a historic recalibration of drug policy in the...

25.12.2025 10

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Cautious Solidarity

Europe’s decision to extend a Euro 90 billion loan to Ukraine, while stopping short of using frozen Russian assets, reveals a European Union that is...

25.12.2025 20

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Measured Relief

The latest inflation numbers from the United States offer a moment of relief in a debate that has been politically charged and economically fraught...

24.12.2025 10

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Citizenship on Trial

The forced removal of a pregnant Indian citizen to Bangladesh on mere suspicion exposes a dangerous erosion of due process at the heart of the...

24.12.2025 10

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Everest in Peril

The Himalayas, long revered for their sublime beauty and spiritual significance, are under siege ~ not by avalanches or blizzards, but by human...

23.12.2025 10

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Export Rebalance

India’s export map is quietly, but decisively, being redrawn. Recent data reveals a geographic rebalancing that goes beyond year-on-year...

23.12.2025 10

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The First Ten

Pandemics do not begin with sirens or headlines. They begin with a cough that goes unreported, a fever mistaken for exhaustion, a worker who does not...

22.12.2025 10

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Unequal Gains

India’s wealth story is increasingly told through a confusing set of headlines. On the one hand, the country is adding new dollar-millionaires at a...

22.12.2025 10

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Silent Emergency

India’s roads kill with a predictability that should shame a modern state. Day after day, lives are lost not in dramatic, singular catastrophes but...

21.12.2025 20

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Rationing a Right

India’s rural employment story is not merely about jobs or budgets; it is about how the Indian state defines its obligations to its poorest...

21.12.2025 10

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Pahalgam Fallout

The filing of a detailed chargesheet on the Pahalgam massacre marks more than a procedural milestone in India’s counter-terrorism effort; it is a...

20.12.2025 10

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Called to account

The story of two entrepreneur brothers, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who built a celebrated nightlife brand in India is now overshadowed by tragedy and...

20.12.2025 10

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Conditional Peace

The latest round of diplomacy around Ukraine marks a subtle but consequential shift in how the war’s possible endgame is being framed. For the first...

19.12.2025 40

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Choking Normality

Delhi’s annual descent into a grey, choking winter is no longer an environmental anomaly; it is a predictable civic failure. Each year, the city...

19.12.2025 10

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Digital Borderline

The United States is preparing to widen its security net once again, this time by asking millions of prospective visitors to surrender five years of...

18.12.2025 10

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