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Pawar moves
September 6, 2025, 10:18 AM IST
Politicians will never give up interfering in police affairs Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar has clarified that his diktat to an IPS officer to stop work, reinforced with the threat of “action”, was not intended…
September 6, 2025, 10:18 AM IST
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‘Data must be credible & transparent…or it aids politics more than policy…internal migration is a good example of this’
September 4, 2025, 7:18 AM IST
Census categories on religion are mutually exclusive – is this a problem? Can EWS quotas be implemented without knowing relevant numbers? What’ll the drive against ‘illegals’ do to internal migration? Should govt statistical authorities be…
September 4, 2025, 7:18 AM IST
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Who & why of the siege of SoBo & what’s next
September 3, 2025, 7:36 AM IST
Jarange wanted all Marathas declared Kunbis. Government says it’ll have an answer in two months. As the Maratha quota stir’s play-pause-repeat cycle hits pause, a lowdown on Maratha-Kunbi dynamics Even in 2023, the Shinde government…
September 3, 2025, 7:36 AM IST
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Vote Chori is a global pandemic
September 2, 2025, 5:56 PM IST
People elect the government they want. But a former Israeli foreign minister warned in a recent article, “Historians of antiquity describe how the first Roman Emperor’s ability to “organise opinion” enabled him to maintain the…
September 2, 2025, 5:56 PM IST
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Bihar’s Migrants
August 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
They are at the centre of high decibel electoral sparring. But what does Bihar have to offer them? Bihar’s allies in govt, JDU and BJP, used Stalin’s stop in Bihar – he was there to…
August 29, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Could Gaza become India’s strategic counter to Trump–Pakistan realignment?
August 19, 2025, 3:26 PM IST
When President Trump increased tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent, citing India’s ongoing purchases of Russian oil and combining these penalty taxes with underlying economic threats – the damage extended beyond just commercial trade…
August 19, 2025, 3:26 PM IST
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From Kashmir to cyberspace: Redefining India’s security landscape
August 19, 2025, 12:55 PM IST
On August 5, 2025, Union home minister Amit Shah etched his name in India’s political history by becoming the longest-serving Home Minister, completing 2,258 days in office and surpassing LK Advani’s record. While Prime Minister…
August 19, 2025, 12:55 PM IST
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Of rains and votes
August 19, 2025, 8:19 AM IST
Only a few things are for certain in India: that the price of onions will rise before an election, that an India-Pakistan match will be described as ‘more than cricket’, and that elections will never…
August 19, 2025, 8:19 AM IST
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A tale of two acquittals
August 19, 2025, 8:10 AM IST
Two recent acquittals have become part of a provocative discourse in India. First, on July 21, a division bench of the Bombay high court, in a 671-page ruling, overturned the 2015 MCOCA sentencing for the…
August 19, 2025, 8:10 AM IST
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How EC is shooting itself in the foot with its ‘vote chori’ response
August 18, 2025, 9:21 PM IST
The ongoing tussle between the Election Commission (EC) and the Opposition INDIA bloc — barring the Aam Aadmi Party — over the past few months is rather unfortunate. India has seen many fierce contests between…
August 18, 2025, 9:21 PM IST
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Mr Trump – The Mr tariff
August 7, 2025, 1:45 PM IST
Tariff and Trump seem to be the latest synonyms these days. Over the last seven months, hardly a day passes when the US President does not talk on this issue and brandish his Tariff Chart…
August 7, 2025, 1:45 PM IST
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‘My way or the tariff way’: Trump’s global guessing game
August 4, 2025, 11:08 PM IST
If Donald Trump had a motto specifically for his tariff strategy, it could just be: “Deadlines are made to be moved.” This “my way or the tariff way” negotiation strategy of Trump, often directed by…
August 4, 2025, 11:08 PM IST
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Infrastructure of integration: How abrogation of article 370 enabled roads, railways and 5G to connect Kashmir to India
August 4, 2025, 10:17 PM IST
When Article 370 was abrogated in August 2019, Kashmir suddenly took off from decades of isolation into a rapid integration drive. Its soaring mountains and fraught politics had long conspired to keep the region physically…
August 4, 2025, 10:17 PM IST
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What procedure did Stalin undergo? It doesn’t matter
July 28, 2025, 11:15 PM IST
Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin has been in hospital since July 21. Newspapers, including The Times of India, quoting medical bulletins from the hospital, said he underwent investigations, including a diagnostic angiogram and a…
July 28, 2025, 11:15 PM IST
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Eleven years of how internal security became India’s strongest pillar under Modi
July 23, 2025, 9:50 AM IST
Until 2014, India was reeling under frequent terror attacks, insurgent threats, Naxalite attacks, cross-border violence and an inefficient criminal justice framework. 11 years later India stands transformed—internally secure, assertive and resilient and credit for this…
July 23, 2025, 9:50 AM IST
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Dirty politics, dirtier ideology
July 21, 2025, 6:07 PM IST
If politics is the art of the possible, ideology is the blueprint for the impossible. When ideology trumps politics, the consequences vary from deplorable to catastrophic. This is exactly what we are witnessing in the…
July 21, 2025, 6:07 PM IST
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Open letter to Mr. Raj Thackeray
July 18, 2025, 5:40 PM IST
Mr. Thackeray, I write this with a lump in my throat and pain in my heart, because while thousands of our soldiers stand guard at our borders, prepared to sacrifice their lives for this nation,…
July 18, 2025, 5:40 PM IST
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Same Story, New Cast
July 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Gen Next netas are leading Bihar assembly contests, but it’s still all caste and faith Nitish Kumar rarely looks wobbly. Even when his govt shifts from one alliance to the other. He is rarely a…
July 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Talking Mumbai
July 9, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Language chauvinism is a political strategy for BMC polls. But it can create dangerous social divisions There’s constructive politics, which concerns itself with the lot of the people, and there’s cynical politics, which only serves…
July 9, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The taste of erasure: On class, caste and culinary amnesia
July 6, 2025, 4:10 AM IST
Growing up in Kolkata in the 1970s, caste was not a big part of my life. You knew it existed of course, from the bride wanted ads and occasional distasteful references to somebody being chhoto…
July 6, 2025, 4:10 AM IST
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