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‘Donkey’ Flight Grounding Exposes Gujarat Network of Traffickers; India Can’t Get Away With Israel’s Apartheid, Assassination Politics

Adani Queries Led to Pegasus; Qatar Commutes Death Sentences; Smile, You’re with Modi and Your Train Isn’t On Time

Rezang La Battle Monument Removed During Disengagement in Ladakh; Kerala Governor Violating Sanctity of Own Post by Withholding Assent for Bills

On Christmas, RSS-Backed Tripura Group Targets Christian Tribals; India’s Growing Debt Problem has ‘Crisis-Like Symptoms’

Army Torture of Bakarwals Angers Kashmir; Neither Cricket Nor Humanity: Shades of BCCI in ICC’s Khawaja order

Ram Temple & Advani’s Sour Grapes of Rath; Punia to Return Padma Shri; Macron Says 'Oui' to R-Day, After Rafale-Marine Bid, Biden 'No'

Olympian Quits as Brij Bhushan's 'Dabdaba' on Wrestlers Continues; Cleverly Drafted Telecoms Bill Tightens Govt Grip on All Communications

New Criminal Laws, Telecom Bill Pushed Through Depleted House; CBI, DRI Asked to Probe Coal Import Inflation by Adani, Essar; Czechs Say Indian Courts Lack Jurisdiction

INDIA Dons United Face to Take on Mother of Suspended Democracy; HC Resurrects Temple Dispute; 'Donate for Desh' V/s Corporate Funding for Parties

USCIRF Again Urges Biden Administration Against India; States Fight for Autonomy Amidst Growing Financial Curbs

Mr X Goes to Court; EC Wades into School Education; Women Will Be Half the 2024 Vote; India's Struggling Opposition Needs 'Productivism'

Modi Govt Ducking French Judicial Requests for Help in Rafale Corruption Probe; Kerala Sues Union Govt in Defence of Financial Azadi

Breach of Security in Parliament as Intruders Smoke Bomb MPs in House; Dulat Says Doval 'Had to Know' About Any Assassination Project

BJP Experiments with Unknown CM-2 Dy CM Formula; Modi's Three Poll Weapons; No Biden for R-Day; BBC Pares India Presence; Bad Drugs

SC Upholds End of Article 370, Skirts Statehood Question; BJP's Mohan Yadav is New MP CM; Alleged RAW Op to Discredit Critics Overseas Exposed

Mahua Moitra, Kangaroo Courts, Food Hyperinflation, Zoram People’s Alliance, Samant Goel, Religious Pluralism, Hinduphobia

US Senate Hearing on Transnational Repression Clubs India with China, Russia; Congress & Rahul Gandhi Need to Think of Road Beyond 2024

Adani Group Stocks Soar Much Higher Than Market After Every Modi Victory; Congress Defeat Turns Spotlight On INDIA’s Resilience

Here's a Loyalty Test Dear Leader Hopes You Fail

After Heartland Loss, Congress Faces INDIA Challenge, 2024 is Existential Fight for Group; US Raises Panun Plot But India Avoids Public Mention

Voters Oust MNF in Mizoram, Congress in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and KCR from Telangana; As BJP Retains MP, Caste Census Politics Isn’t Cutting It

RAW Forced to End Presence in North America; COP28 Agrees to Climate Disaster Fund; Despite Caste Survey Politics, is OBC Vote Eluding INDIA?

Exit Polls Mixed Bag for BJP, Congress; US Indictment Connects Dots on 'Official' Plot to Kill Khalistanis; Goodbye Pappu, Hello Panauti

India Begins First Auction of Critical and Strategic Minerals; Middle East at an Inflexion Point

Hasina Has Arrested Almost 10,000 Opposition Members Before National Election; For INDIA to Work Electorally, Congress Must Take Step Back

BJP Disinfo Machine Milking Gaza for Pre-Election Fear-Mongering; Governors’ Pocket Veto Compromises Constitutional Probity

PIO Democrat Funders Forced Governor’s Veto of California Caste Bill; Rising Women’s Work Participation Signals Stressed Livelihoods, Not Progress

Income Tax Data Reveals that Increase in Compliance is Marginal; Should India Engage with Myanmar Militants?

US had Warned India Over Attempt on Life of Khalistani Activist; After Caste Survey, Vivekananda’s Prescient Observations of Shudra Revolution Resonate

PM Skips BRICS Meet on Plight of Gaza to Go Campaigning; Supreme Court Never Fails to Disappoint

More Painful than Finals Defeat is Sport Takeover by Modi Metaverse; J&K Reporters Fahad Shah, Sajad Gul Get Bail as Judges Frown on Police Cases

Myanmarese, Including Junta Soldiers, Flee Fighting Into India; Assembly Polls Litmus Test for Congress and Rahul Gandhi

Bail is a Right Even if Charges Serious, says HC; In Two Months, India Transitioned from Aspiring Global South Leader to Plain US Ally

Government May Seek Access to Big Tech’s Data; Israeli Onslaught on Palestine a Boost to Indian Islamophobia

Indian Trade Unions Refuse to Let Israel Replace Palestinian Labour With Indians; Will Every Generation Have to Face an Emergency?

56% of Businesses Reported Sales Below Normal in September; India Needs Guidelines to Protect Privacy in Device Seizures

Madhya Pradesh Leads in Missing Women and Girls; Smog isn’t Just About Farmers ― We Breathe the Soot of Our Own Ecological Sins

Ethics Panel Makes Haste to Demand Mahua Moitra's Expulsion; As Modi Government Tames Twitter, Free Speech Concerns Mount

Bihar Caste Survey Maps Poverty Across Communities, UP Readies for Destitute Cow Census; Bond of Distrust: the Open Market Sale of India’s Democracy

One-Third of Bihar Families Live on Rs 200 a Day: Caste Census; Protracted War Developing in Middle East will Define New Multipolar World

Tacitly Acknowledging Public Distress, PM Extends Free Ration Scheme by 5 Years; Bad Kharif, Worse Monsoon—What’s the Real Story on India’s Food Security?

Govt Concealing Two Decades of Defence Corruption to Protect Rafale Deal; Revisiting Gandhi & Santhanam Committee as SC Examines Electoral Bonds

Parties Earned More from Unknown Sources After Electoral Bonds Rollout; Transferred Judge Sat on Gulfisha Bail Order for 8 Months, Matter to Now Be Reheard

Government Protecting Privacy with Electoral Bonds, says Straight-Faced Solicitor General; With All Warnings Overridden and Process Set Aside, Bonds Violate Rights

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‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ Target iPhones of Opposition Leaders, Journalists; India’s Solidarity with Israel an Untenable Project

'No Right to Know' Says Govt But SC Will Hear Challenge to Electoral Bonds Secrecy; India’s UN Abstention on Gaza Truce Reflects Amoral Exceptionalism

Maldives Not for India or China, Wants No Part of Their Rivalry; Global Economy Survived Ukraine War, But Can it Shrug Off Israel Strife?

Eight Former Indian Navy Officers Get Death Sentence in Qatar for Espionage; Maharashtra’s Communal Dynamics Exposed

NCERT Panel Wants ‘Bharat’ to Replace ‘India’ in School Texts; Authority of Civil Servants Will Be Weakened If Used for Poll Campaigning

Adani Gas Descends to Hindenburg's Predicted 85% Descent; China Claims Progress on Boundary Talks, Diplomatic Ties With Bhutan;

Modi Wants Bureaucrats to Front Campaign on His Government's 'Achievements'; Bishen Singh Bedi Is No More

FATF Team to Visit India as NGOs Lose FCRA Clearance En Masse; Drones Giving New Dimensions to Narco-terror on India-Pak Border

Why World’s High Hopes for India May Be Headed for Disappointment; Sarkari ‘Research’ Says Narendra Modi Thought Boosted Public Health

Award for Kashmiri Journalist Cancelled Due to Political Pressure; Will Indian Stock Markets Feel the Tremors of a Polycrisis?

Supreme Court Passes Ball on Legalising Same Sex Marriage; Rahul Gandhi Cites Amit Shah's Son, Jay Shah, as Dynast

Same Sex Marriage Ruling Due on Tuesday, Constitutional Bench to Hear Electoral Bonds Case; Device Seizures Make Mockery of Landmark Privacy Ruling

Without Capital Investment, Greying India will Stay Poor; By Siding with Israel, India is Jettisoning Decades of Middle East Statesmanship

Strike 2 for Adani as FT Report Alleges Coal Overinvoicing; Modi is Upending Indian Foreign Policy By Rooting for Israel, Ignoring Palestine

Modi Government Tweaked Coal Block Auction Rules, Adani Among Beneficiaries; India Needs Stronger Exports to Hold Current Account Deficit in Check

Arundhati Roy to Be Prosecuted for Remarks Made in 2010; Sikkim Disaster Happened Because Warnings on Glacial Lakes Went Unheeded

Farmers Threaten Agitation Over ‘Scurrilous’ Reference in NewsClick UAPA FIR; Rocky India-China Relations Affecting River Data Sharing

NewsClick: Despite Terror Financing 'Evidence', Why Hasn't India Sought US, FATF Help?; Amid Press Repression, Poor Protection for Sportspersons, India Readies Olympics Bid

Facing Bihar Caste Survey Dilemma, Modi Turns Delimitation Into Political Weapon; SC Questions ED's Evidence Against AAP's Sisodia

Biggest Crackdown Ever on Indian Press is 'Worse than Emergency'; One-Third of Gujarat’s Population Below Poverty Line

Police Raids, Terror FIR in Revived NewsClick Case; After Caste Census, Rattled Modi Drops OBC Card and Speaks of 'Poor' as Majority

'No Discrimination' in India Claimed Jaishankar But Assam CM Says BJP Doesn't Want 'Miya' Votes; When Indians Reprimanded Mahatma for Addressing RSS Rally

NMC Guidelines will Bar New Medical Colleges in South; ‘Modi’s Promise’ is Strategy for 2024 ― Though Modi Doesn’t Keep Promises

MS Swaminathan, Father of Green Revolution, Dead; Rahul Takes Position on OBCs, Ruffles the BJP

For Manipur’s Sake, UK MPs Seek Halt to FTA Talks with India; Bombay HC Sniffs at Sarkari Fact-Checkers

80% Hate Speech in BJP-Ruled States; Will Khalistan Become Modi’s Poll Issue, or Will Canada Turn Down the Thermostat?

Shortage of TB Meds in India, ‘World’s Pharmacy’ and Epicentre of the Disease; Obsession with Short-Term GDP Growth Misses Broader Issues

Canada’s Evidence Came from Surveillance of Indian Diplomats; How Kashmir's Free Press Reported Mirwaiz's First Sermon in Four Years

India's Row With Canada Deepens Further; Only BJP Itself can Allay Doubts About its Commitment to Women’s Bill

Trudeau Rejects India’s Rejection, Asks It to Cooperate; Huge Diaspora, Increasing Polarisation at Home: Canada’s Problem With India

Tempers Flare, Diplomats Fly as Trudeau Accuses Delhi of Murder on Canadian Soil; Modi Bats for Women’s Vote But ‘Historic Day’ Won’t Come Till 2029

SC's Adani Panel Faulted for Conflict of Interest; Vajpayee Govt Didn't Contest UK Diplomats’ Report that Gujarat 2002 was Pre-Planned

EC Bill Downgrades Election Commissioners to Cabinet Secretary Status; Which will Move Voters, Food Inflation or Amrit Kaal Entry Ticket?

UP Spending More on Feeding Stray Cattle than on Pensions; Govt Ends Suspense, Reveals Boring Parliament Session Agenda, Triggers More Suspense

Assam CM Denies Wife Got Government Subsidy But Congress Posts Proof From Ministry Site; The Widening, Tightening Embrace of Shah Rukh

NDTV Reporter Ordered to Disrupt Rahul’s Adani Press Conference Quits; In Combating Drug Trafficking, Knowing the Enemy is the First Step

In Hanoi, Biden Says He Talked Human Rights, Free Press with Modi; Government Headed for a Dal-Roti Mess as Traders make a Killing

Home Ministry, Rashtrapati Bhavan Reject Manipur RTI on National Security Grounds; Simultaneous Elections: Why Now?

G20 Demolitions Made Lakhs Homeless, Facelifts Vandalised Monuments; Kashmir and Manipur: Double Standards of Modi’s New India

Renewable Energy Needs 400,000 Hectares of Land; The Rise of Oligarchic Capitalism in Modi’s India

68% of Missing People in India are Women; Government in Bad Faith, Women Protectors Turned Partisan in Manipur

After Dramatic Suspense, Xi Won’t Attend G20; Whether Polls are Held Sooner or Later, INDIA must Face Basic Questions

INDIA Grouping Will Fight the Lok Sabha Elections Together; The Importance of Being Mallikarjun Kharge

New Probe Puts Names and Faces to Allegations of Adani Share Price Manipulation; No Timeline for J&K Statehood Because of Disturbances in Peaceful Kashmir

Pew Survey finds Modi Up in India, His India Down in World’s Eyes; Is Indian Agriculture Following Two Policies ― One at WTO and Another at Home?

J&K to Get Statehood Back, Timeline Awaited; The Other Children, that Day in Muzaffarnagar

PM at the Tiller, Adani Looks to Make Landfall in Greece; Supreme Court Questions Suspension of J&K Lecturer Who Argued Against 370 Scrapping

Xi Meets Modi on Request, Offers High-Minded Sermon on Ladakh; For INDIA and BJP, 2024 Polls Hinge on Economic Plan, not Rhetoric, Hype

After Wheat and Rice Curbs, India may Ban Sugar Exports; BRICS Admits Iran and Five Others

Chandrayaan-3 to Land Soon Near Lunar South Pole; The Republic at the Crossroads

ED Cannot be Law Unto Itself, Says Apex Court; Digital India Returns to Licence Raj ― Was this the Only Way?

Modi-Xi Bilateral Meet Planned in Jo'burg; TOI Scrubs, Then Restores Zubin Mehta Comment Expressing Concern About Muslims in India

Gujarat Govt on ‘Thin Ice’ for Selectively Releasing Bilkis Bano’s Rapists; Parliament Devalued and Manipur MPs’ Rights Violated by their Muzzling

Nonprofit Bloodbath More Serious than Much-Analysed Unicorn Morbidity; On the India-China Border, Disengagement is Not Resolution

BJP MLA Commits Fresh Partition Horror in Haryana; What the MEA Told Parliament about the Indian Diaspora

Article 370's End Did Not Bring Peace to J&K; In All Matters Debatable, Opposition Owned the Monsoon Session

After Atiq Killing, SC Finally Questions Yogi’s Encounter Raj; Headline-Hunting, Diversion of Safety Funds Hurting Indian Railways

Bills to Overhaul Colonial-Era Criminal Codes Tabled in Parliament; After Tomato Turmoil, Government Faces Onion Apocalypse

Modi Ducks Manipur in Lok Sabha Response; Analysts Fed on Government Spin Demand Facts from Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah Square Off in No-Confidence Debate; Political Uncertainty Surrounds Pakistan’s General Election

For First Time an Indian Court Sees House Demolitions as Ethnic Cleansing; Battle Won, War Lies Ahead for Rahul Gandhi

SC Crafting Monitoring Framework for Manipur; Flight of Personal Capital via LRS May Exceed FDI this Year

Supreme Court Paves Way for Rahul Gandhi's Return to Parliament; Health Ministry Wants to Lower Malnutrition Bar to Massage Numbers

Rajasthan's Gehlot Takes on Haryana CM on Hindutva Violence; Unconstitutional to Pass Bills Without Discussion with No Confidence Motion Pending

Threat of Haryana Communal Violence Prompts SC to Direct State Government; Muslim Life in India has become Dangerously Uncertain

Only 5% of Government-Owned Solar Panels Work; SC Sees What Modi Won't: 'Complete Breakdown of Law and Order' in Manipur

CJI Shoots Down Centre's Manipur Violence Whataboutery; Telangana to Raze Iconic Osmania General Hospital Heritage Building

Amit Shah Spins Manipur Tale on Modi's Behalf; Bail for Two Bhima-Koregaon Undertrails After 5 Years in Jail

70% of Last Year’s Taxpayers now Below Taxable Limit; Unicorns have Lost the Numbers Game ― Time for Proficorns to Take the Stage

Is China Showing Tough Love for India?; After ‘Oppenheimer’, Anurag Thakur May Nuke the Censor

Sex Ratio Falling But NITI Aayog Declares Beti Bachao Beti Padhao A Success; The Tribal Politics Behind Manipur Conflict

Without Irony, Amit Shah Happy To Debate Manipur ― If Opposition will Please Allow It; Is Parliament Empowered To Legislate A Uniform Civil Code?

NCW Knew of Manipur Parading, Rape Case But Didn't Respond; Three Jobs Claims of Sarkari Economists Which Fail Smell Test

Manipur Video Jolts Mute PM Into Political Speech; Sir CP, Monazite and the Threat of an Independent Travancore

Supreme Court Tears Into Gujarat HC for Denying Teesta Setalvad Bail; Differences Over Ukraine War Derail G20 Joint Communique

Opposition's I.N.D.I.A. to Take on Modi's NDA in 2024; In India’s Richest State, Rural Minimum Wage Has Risen Only Rs 50 in Seven Years

Joint Opposition Meeting in Bengaluru Underway; Indian Nationalist Chicken Soup Vs Chinese Patriotic Dumpling Soup

Preparing for 2024, BJP to Jettison 1/4 UP MPs; Precipitous Decline in FDI in Modi’s Last Years in Office

European Parliament Passes Resolution on Manipur Crisis on Eve of Modi Visit; Karnataka Budget Sticks Price Tags On Poll Guarantees

SC Refuses to Cross Rubicon and Issue Orders to Army; Ghost of Rafale Deal Emerges on Eve of Modi's France Visit

SC Says Govt’s Impression of 'Progress' In J&K Irrelevant To Article 370 Challenge; Karnataka Can Double Farmers’ Income By Moving PDS Away From Rice

Foxconn Exit Scuppers Gujarat Chipmaking JV; Govt Canceled Academic's OCI Card Without Reason, Says HC, Sets Aside Order

HC Cites Savarkar Charge to Deny Rahul Gandhi Relief in Modi Surname Case; Canny Swede Has More Stomach for India than Many Indians

Greater Tipraland Movement Rekindled After Delegation Met Amit Shah; Modi’s US Tech Transfer Deals May Stumble On Export Controls

PM-Headed National Research Foundation Will Stifle Science; Karnataka Becomes Accidental Pioneer of Cash Transfers in Lieu of Food

Northeast Sentiment Could Scupper BJP’s UCC Play; Crisis, Bailout, Crisis Again: Pakistan’s Relentless Fiscal Cycle

Macron Government Clears Made in India Engine Deal; In Maharashtra, It’ll Be Open Season Until 2024 General Elections

Via Philippines, India Enters South China Sea Game; The US Has Finally Encountered the Real Modi

US Expects Greater Indian Role in South China Sea; Modi in White House and Cairo Mosque Illustrates His Muslim Problem

Rahul to Visit Manipur, Modi Can’t or Won’t; New Delhi Adopting Singapore Model For Military-Industrial Relations With US

Modi Returns to Democratic India, and to Targeting Muslims; With Temple in the Bag, Power Crisis Not a Poll Issue in UP

In UP School Textbooks, Savarkar In, Nehru Out; Drone Price Comparisons Trigger MoD Ire

Government Trying To Checkmate Fact-checkers; Why Even Hanuman Is Keeping Away From ‘Adipurush’

Biden Sidesteps Rights-Related Concerns on Modi to Focus on Business; How Settling With Wilful Defaulters Incentivises Sharp Dealing

With a Spot of Yoga, Modi’s US Visit Begins in Earnest; Post-Covid, There’s a Danger of Cartels Forming in Many Sectors

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Sparse Quotes, No Transcript as US-Bound Modi Gives Rare 'Interview' to WSJ; No Man’s Land in ‘Partitioned’ Manipur

Ghettoing of SCs and Muslims Continues Despite Urbanisation; Swallowing Gandhi and Peace in One Prize

Congress to Purge BJP Laws, RSS Syllabus in Karnataka; BRICS Expansion: Strengthen the Core First

Months Before Crash, Railways Knew Signals Protocol Was Short-Circuited; India Agrees to Buy 30 US Military Drones for $3 Billion

Malegaon, Damoh Principals Booked for Islamic Prayer, Iqbal Poem as Bidar School's Sedition Case is Quashed; Modi Missing in Manipur But Ethnic Power Sharing a Solution

Nitish Headlines Opposition Unity, Lalu & Tejashwi Build It; Law Commission’s Report On Sedition Is A Non Sequitur

CAG Report Reveals Rail Safety Fund Spent on Flag, Foot Massagers, Crockery; What’s the Fuss About Karnavati?

Attackers Of Kuki-Zo Village Disguised In Military Gear; Behind The Scenes Of 1930s Bombay Cinema

Wrestlers Win Bout With Government; Coromandel Express Back On Tracks But Systemic Risks Remain

Over-Emitting Countries Owe India Rs 1.19 Lakh Per Capita Until 2050; Balasore Crash Was The Terrible Cost Of Ignoring CAG Audits

At Shangri-La, China Dismisses India’s Defence Capabilities; After GDP Figures, Time To Stop Chest-Thumping And Start Soul-Searching

Manipur Augurs Ill for the Rest of India; Need for Speed Has Taken Focus Off Rail Safety

Nepal Irked By ‘Akhand Bharat’ Mural; SCO Summit: For Modi, Diplomacy Takes A Back Seat To Domestic Politics

Jettisoned By Lloyd’s, Indian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Ships Being Reflagged; Top 20% Driving GDP Growth, the Rest Are Travelling Steerage

Deloitte Punches Holes in Adani Ports Deals, Citing Lack of Review; Manipur DGP Not Allowed to Handle Operations Because He Is a Kuki

Wrestlers Threaten to Throw Their Medals in Ganga; Two Mauritius Firms in Hindenburg Report Were on I-T Radar for Decade

India’s Russian Oil Imports in Troubled Waters as Gatik Set to Lose Certification; Protesting Women Wrestlers Facing Institutional Betrayal

Why Rich Indians Are in Love with State Surveillance; Modi Govt’s ‘Sengol’ Claim Lacks Evidence, Undermines Constitution

‘Clean Chit’ to Adani a Worrying Template for Future Probes; RSS’s Early Order was Modelled on ‘Balilla’, Fascist Italy’s Youth Brigade

19 Parties to Boycott New Parliament Building Inauguration by Modi; Army Puts Its Foot Down on Restoration of Patrolling Rights on Depsang

In Speech to Diaspora in Sydney, Modi Calls India ‘Force of Global Good’; Adani Shares Jump as Rajiv Jain’s GQC Raises Its Investment by 10%

China Demands 15-20Km Buffer Zone Inside Indian Territory on Depsang; Opposition Parties the Real Target of ₹2,000 Note Withdrawal

SC's Adani Panel Stumped By Group's Opacity; Sunak Says Main Mission at G7 'to Persuade Modi to Back Ukraine'

SC Removes Ban Imposed by Bengal Govt on ‘The Kerala Story’; Climate Breakdown Made S Asia 2℃ Hotter Than Usual in April

Manipur HC Order for ST Status to Meiteis ‘Completely Factually’ Wrong: SC; Rahul to Address NRIs at Madison Square Garden in June

Ahead of Modi’s Visit, US State Dept Report Singes India’s Human Rights Record; Assessing the Legacy of Justice MR Shah

After Huge Victory in Karnataka, Congress Grapples With Choosing Chief Minister; UK Tabloid Says Modi Supporters Stoked Last Year’s Hindu-Muslim Riots in Leicester

Why Mamata’s Decision to Ban 'The Kerala Story' is Wrong; G7 Ban on Russian Diamonds May Render Lakhs Jobless in India

SC Holds Governor’s Action Illegal, but Says Can’t Restore Thackeray as CM; White House Defends Invite to Modi, Says Ties ‘Related to Human Rights’

Violent Protests Continue in Pakistan Following Imran Khan’s Arrest; Mary Kom Panel Was ‘Biased Towards the Accused”: Wrestlers’ FIR

With PM in Perpetual Campaign Mode, How Fair Are Elections in India Now? 3 Adani Companies Lose Their Endorsement from UN-Backed Green-Goals Arbiter

BJP Moves EC Against 'Sovereignty' Remark Sonia Gandhi Never Made; Doval Discusses US-Backed Middle East Rail Project with Saudi, UAE

Violence Sparked by Demand for ST Status for Meiteis Kills 13; Ahead of G20 Summit, States Told to Remove Street Children from Streets

Wrestlers Allege They Were Manhandled by Delhi Cops at Jantar Mantar; High Court Stays Caste-Based Survey in Bihar, Tells Govt Not to Share Data

India Slides Further in World Press Freedom Index, Ranks 161st among 180 Countries; Sexual Abuse-Accused WFI Chief’s Fatherly-Hug Remark ‘Sick and Disgusting’

Supreme Court Chief Justice Seen Overreaching Himself; India Among ‘Laundromat’ Countries Accused of Helping Fill Putin’s War Chest

Big Brother Will Soon Be Watching You Like Never Before; Doval Assured Russia of India’s Support at Multilateral Forums, Say Leaked US Papers

Driven into a Corner by SC, Delhi Police Say They’ll File FIR Against BJP MP ‘today’; Ahmadiyya Lawyer Arrested in Pak for Adding ‘Syed’ to His Name

EC Investigating Voter Data Sale by Private Company in Bengaluru; Three-Fifths of India Has Never Listened to ‘Mann ki Baat’: Study

Vinod Adani Steps Down from 3 Firms Linked to Adani’s Australian Coal Mine; Gujarat HC Judge Hearing Rahul’s Appeal Recuses Herself

BRS Open to Alliance With Cong but Doesn’t Want Rahul as Face of Campaign; Government Pressgangs Radio Stations for Leader's Sermon

Nitish and Mamata Give Push to Opposition Unity; Top BJP Man in Sydney Convicted of Drugging, Raping, Filming 5 Women

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Removed from Textbook; BJP Draws a Blank After Nine Year Probe Into Robert Vadra Land Deals

India, Pak Foreign Ministers Will Be Face to Face in Goa in May; Govt Stalls Justice Muralidhar’s Appointment as Madras HC Chief Justice

8 Former Navy Officers in Qatar Jail Accused of Spying; Now, India Has 2.9 Million More People than China: UN Report

Same-Sex Marriage, Bilkis Hearings Open to Sparring; SC Will Hear Plea for Independent Inquiry into Atiq’s Killing

In Atiq’s Killing, ‘Much More than Meets the Eye’; SC Hearing on Same-Sex Marriage Begins Tomorrow

Former Governor Satyapal Malik Targets Modi in Bombshells on Pulwama, Corruption; Lethal Flash Droughts 'Becoming Common in India'

Kashmir’s 'Accession for Autonomy’ Deal Banished from Textbook; Judge Hearing Rahul Appeal Was Shah’s Counsel in Fake Encounter Case

Knowledge of Vedas and Puranas to Fetch Students Credits; New Pegasus-Like Spyware Detected in 10 countries

Sitharaman Uses Fuzzy Logic to Claim Muslims in India Are Safe; New Study by Jean Dreze ‘Destroys’ Poverty Decline Chatter

On Ukraine, India May Be Tilting Towards West; Monsoon Likely To Be ‘Below Normal’ This Year: Skymet

In Blow to Free Speech, Modi Govt Assumes Powers to Determine, Take Down ‘Fake News’; India Office Archives Reveal New Facts on Colonial Loot

Chinese Firm Linked to Adani Handling Key Infra Projects in India; Govt Can’t Make National Security Threats Out of Thin Air: SC

House Panel Can Discuss Silicon Valley Bank Collapse But Not Adani Scandal; NCERT Furtively Deletes Facts Inconvenient to Hindutva

Allahabad HC Castigates Yogi Govt for ‘Misuse’ of Cow Law; Bid By 'Linked' Firm Helped Adani Win Coal Auction

India Looks to Curb Academic Freedom at Foreign Univs too; Muslims Horrified as Noida Neighbours Call Police to Stop Ramzan Prayers

India Spied Shopping for Taint-Free Pegasus Rivals; Scotland's Yousaf Blazes a New Trail in Post-Colonial History

Rosneft To Export Even More Oil To India; Indexation Withdrawal: Levelling The Playing Field or Tilting It in Favour of Banks?

122 Accounts Of Journalists, Writers and Politicians Blocked This Week; Portrait of the Artist, Vivan Sundaram

India Aspires To Be Digital Power But 73% Youth Lack Basic Computer Skills: NSSO Data; Rahul Case Again Shows The Law Has Fallen Into The Wrong Hands

Sanatan Sanstha Named In Lankesh Murder Case Is Spiritual Body, Says Bombay HC; What Rahul Needs Now is an Opposition Jodo Yatra

Rahul Gandhi Disqualified; 14 Parties Move SC Against Misuse Of Agencies; Following US Banking Crisis, India Faces Lower Foreign Investment, Tougher Foreign Loans

BJP Sharpens Knives After Rahul Gandhi's Defamation Conviction; Delhi Budget Brouhaha: A Background Check

Spooked By Pension Row, Union Government Bans Employees From Protesting and Striking; Far Right Extremism: The Perfect Storm

India Seeks Data on Over 1 Lakh Platform and Service Users Every Year; Why New Pension Scheme is a Fraud Perpetrated on the Aged

Crooks Exploiting Aadhar Vulnerabilities, Which Its Makers Knew About; PV Satheesh, Millet Man and Much More, RIP

ED Claims 96% Strike Rate, But Has Closed Only 0.42% Cases; SVB Crash is the Long Tail of 2008 Financial Loosening, Ripples Will Be Global Again

Adani Group Changes Its Mind, Acknowledges Big Brother Vinod; Most MSMEs Are Not Even in the Policy Net

After Years Without US Ambassador, Garcetti In Last Lap To Chanakyapuri; Has BJP’s ‘Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhed’ Recipe Gone Stale?

MEA to Lecture IR Departments on Vishwaguru Diplomacy; Ideologically on the Right Side? The Law Doesn’t Apply

Despite SC’s Scrutiny, ‘Love Jihad’ Rallies Continue; Mustard, Mangoes and Climate Change

Now, Toronto Recognises Caste Oppression in Schools; Far Away in Australia, Sport Writers Get the Number of the Beast in India

Rajya Sabha Committees the Latest Institutional Domino to Fall; 'Prepare For More Heatwaves', Met Department Tells Authorities

Indians’ Income Doubled But Income Growth Has Slowed in Modikaal; Did Rahul Gandhi Call for Western Intervention as BJP Alleges?

Army Officer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Fake Encounter in J&K; Opposition Unity – Now You See It, Now You Don't

Blinken Discussed Rights Issues With India But US Media Sees Biden Policy as 'Say Nothing'; Neo-Khalistanis, Cow Vigilantes Challenge Security Establishment

Election Commissioners to Be Appointed By Bipartisan Panel From Now; Hathras Accused Acquitted of Gang-Rape, Murder Charges

People’s Groups Trash Govt for Turning G20 into Pre-Poll Tamasha; Is Manish Sisodia’s Arrest a Tipping Point for Opposition Unity?

Diplomatic Setback Over Ukraine Ahead At G20 Meet; With His ‘Amrit Kaal’ Budget, Adityanath Picks Up Fantastical Modi Playscript

ED Chief's Third Extension 'Illegal', says SC Amicus; RSS-Backed Hindusthan Samachar Prasar Bharati’s Primary News Agency Now

India Doesn’t Want ‘War’ in G20 Communique; Inconvenient Voters in Bengaluru Could Lose Franchise

First Mevani, Now Khera: Assam Police Emerge as Top Enforcers of Modi Cult; Larry Summers Speaks of ‘India’s Enron Moment’, Adani CFO Talks Up Supportive Foreign Banks

SC Puts Campus ‘Cordiality’ Before Caste Discrimination at IIT; AAP Bests BJP in Delhi Mayor Race But Manish Sisodia Now in Firing Line

Jaishankar Raps Father's Removal By Indira But Himself Became FS After Modi Ousted Incumbent; India’s Problem With Foreigners Returns

Green Adani Stocks Bankrolling Carmichael Mine; Teflon Leaders Have Come Before ― And Gone

Modi Government Declares War on Soros; After Holding the Line During Farmers’ Movement, Why Has Twitter Become Pliant?

IT Department ‘Surveying’ BBC for Third Day Running; Did India Really See a ‘Lost Decade’ in 2004-14 as Modi Claimed?

BBC Tax Raid is Proof Defying the Modi Cult Comes at a Price; BJP’s Donations Three Times That of Combined Opposition

Weeks After Modi Documentary, Taxman ‘Surveys’ BBC Offices in Delhi, Mumbai; When ‘National Champions’ Humiliate the Nation

S Abdul Nazeer Third Ayodhya Judge To Receive Sinecure; Foreign Universities Regulations Reflect Modi Government’s Indifference To Higher Education

Maharashtra Double Engines Pull In Opposite Directions While Administration Idles; Adani Hires Top US Law Firm for Hindenburg Fallout

Net Censors Met 53 Times In 2022, Blocked Hundreds Of URLs Every Month; Opposition Unites On Adani Crisis, But Will It Bring In Votes?

Adani Meltdown an Opportunity to Make Family-Owned Entities Financially Transparent; Justice Gowri Appointment Suffers Rashomon Effect

Lawyer Accused of Hate Speech Sworn in as High Court Judge; In the UK, the Name of the Renaming Game is Different

LIC, MFs, FIIs Bleed Rs 2 Lakh Crore in Adani Bloodbath; Discoms in Region and in India Cancel Adani Deals, Seek Better Rates

After Series of Setbacks, Adani’s Options Shrinking; For Stronger Federalism, Governor’s Discretionary Powers Have to Go

The Fog of Grand Announcements Has Settled. What’s Left Of The Budget?; Finally, Siddique Kappan Walks Free

After 9 Years of Stagnation, Amrit Kaal Budget is Just Band Aid; Unemployment rising, but MGNREGA Outlay Lowest Ever in Govt’s Term

Seattle First US City to Move Against Caste Discrimination; Broken Promises, Drifting Flagships, Bahubalis Defying Modi’s Call to Pause Hate

India Retraining Nuclear Capabilities Towards China; Fractured Times Are Never Beyond Repair

As FPO Opens, Adani Companies Crash and Burn on Hindenburg Effect; Censorship Begins at Home: Cops’ Conference Papers Pulled Down

Pulwama Almost Triggered Nuclear Conflict, Writes Pompeo; In Countries Like India, Can Public Access AI Be An Equaliser?

New IT Rules Being Used Without Lok Sabha’s Assent; BBC Film a Reminder That Modi Has ‘Handled’ Media, But Not All Of It

Govt Shoots Down YouTube, Twitter Links to BBC Documentary; Advani’s ‘A Prisoner’s Scrap-Book’: An Emergency Defence of ‘Basic Structure’ Doctrine

J&K Has World’s Highest Rate of Internet Shutdowns; Xi Urges Frontline Forces to Be Combat-Ready

Women Wrestlers Put Hammerlock on Federation Boss, Leave Umpires Modi, Shah Speechless; As Joshimath Sinks, Safe Haven for Badrinath Treasure Sought

Indians See US as Second Biggest Military Threat: Poll; Minister Confirms BJP MP Tejasvi Surya Opened Emergency Exit on Plane

China Sees More Confrontation, Competition With India; As Bharat Jodo Yatra Nears End, BJP’s ‘Project Pappu-fy’ is History

Darwinism Indian Style: Survival of the Richest; Lost Decade for Indian Manufacturing?

Indian Healthcare System Plagued by Critical Personnel Shortage; What is The Basic Structure Of Jagdeep Dhankhar?

Myanmar Jets Bomb Mizoram Strip, BRO Failed to Build Strategic Road There; Accept Geological Realities or Get ‘Joshimathed’ Across Himalayas

Mohan Bhagwat Digresses On Garibaldi; Don’t Expect Much From Union Budget ― Where’s The Money For It?

India Needs $100 Billion More Annually To Meet Net Zero Target; Whose Vikas Is It, Anyway?

Yatra Has Turned Congress Into Main Opposition, But Electoral Test Remains; Tamil Nadu Governor Escalates War with DMK Government

Government Sought No Consensus on Electoral Bond Scheme Amendment; Congress Can't Jodo Bharat By Supping With the Devil

India’s Battle With Big Tech to Intensify; Supreme Court Stays Imminent Bulldozing of Muslim Basti in Haldwani

India TikTok Ban Inspires United States; SC Said Demonetisation Was 'Legal', Not That It Was Any Good

EPFO shows formal sector employment down 5.3%; Groundwater management is failing

Supreme Court Upholds Legal Validity of Demonetisation But Outs RBI as Rubber Stamp Bank of India; Gerrymandering Before Assam Delimitation