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Goons Linked to BJP Leader Assault Odisha Officer; Indian Diplomat Revives Debate on IAF Losses in Op Sindoor; US Documents Shed Light on Nikhil Gupta's First 24 Hours in Custody

EC's Planned Revision of Bihar Voter List Seen as Move to Disenfranchise Poor; Vantara’s Acquistion of Animals Continues to Raise Eyebrows; Hate Crimes in Modi 3.0

India Skips SCO Statement Over ‘Silence’ on Pak and Terror, Joins BRICS in Expressing ‘Grave Concern’ Over Attacks on Iran; Kangana Ranaut and Abhishek Singhvi Show Their Dislike for Zohran Mamdani

Emergency, Then and Now; 'Proof of Citizenship' Test for Bihar Polls May See Disenfranchisement of Voters; Mamdani's Big Win in NYC Primary

India and China Resolve to Improve Ties and Maintain Border Peace; Massive Airline Disruptions Due to Middle-East Tensions; Iranians do not Want a West-led Change of Their Repressive Regime

As Fears Grow of Wider Middle East Conflict, Modi's India Prefers Silence; Indus Treaty Will 'Never Be Restored' Says Shah

Sonia Gandhi Takes on Modi Over Israel, Iran, Gaza; Amit Shah’s Attack on English Betrays India’s Pluralist Foundations

Vacancies, Fund Cuts Mar Indian Aviation, Air Safety; Air India Could Have Managed Post-Crash Communication Better, says Tata Chief; One Day English Speakers in India will be Ashamed, says Amit Shah

Trump Defies Modi's 'Fact Check', Continues to Push India-Pak Mediation; India's 'Great Power Delusions'

India Urges Citizens to Leave Tehran; Post Crash Stress Telling on Air India; In DC, Pakistan's Munir Praises Trump for 'Kashmir' References

Indian Embassy Helping Relocate Students to Safer Locations in Iran; Government Notifies Census 2027; Donald Trump Offers to Bring About Israel-Iran Peace “Like Between India and Pakistan”

India Equivocates on Israeli Bombing of Iran, Back to Abstaining on Gaza Ceasefire Call; Black Box of Crashed Plane Recovered But Answers Will Take Time

Investigators From UK and US Heading to India to Help Probe Air India’s Dreamliner Crash; Drones Pose Tremendous Danger to Military and Other Targets; DU Will Not Teach Manusmriti, Assures VC

Fighting Terror Demands Partnership, Not Primacy; How the 'Duelling Delegations' Fared Abroad; US General Praises Pak's Partnership in Counter-Terrorism

Modi 3.0 - No Longer The Intransigent Prime Minister We Knew; BBC Finds Kumbh Stampede Toll 45 More Than Official Figure; Axiom-4 Space Mission With Indian Astronaut Postponed by a Day

Canada 'Set Condition' for Modi's G7 Invite; Seven Die on Mumbai Trains Every Day; Could Tharoor Be Best Congress Bet to Reclaim Kerala?

Modi Gets Eleventh Hour G7 Invite from Canada; Bangladesh Elections in April 2026; Supreme Court’s Contempt Dilemma

Heads Roll after Bangalore Stampede Deaths; Silencing the Academy in India and the US; Tharoor Questions Tharoor in DC

Ten People Die in Stampede During IPL Victory Celebrations in Bengaluru; Next Census to Take Place in Oct 2026 and Mar 2027; Opposition Will Push for Special Parliament Session to Discuss Pahalgam

CDS says Achievement of Objectives More Important, Not Losses; Pak Not Worried About Another Indian Attack Because of ‘Trump Factor’; Indo-US Trade Deal Possible Soon But Areas of Friction Still Exist

Indian CDS's Admission on Loss of Fighters Triggers Mixed Responses; Two Systems, Two Spheres: The Slow, Painful Divorce of the US and China

India’s Economic Growth Sharply Decelerated in 2024-25; India Will Use Navy’s Firepower in any Future Conflict with Pakistan; Russia Finalises Deal with Pakistan to Revive Defunct Steel Plant

Jaishankar Flags Chinese Help to Pakistan But Modi-Xi Meeting May Be On Cards; 'Nightmare' for US-Bound Students Begins; Army Chief's Temple Visit in Uniform Raises Questions

Decoding the Four Day Conflict Between India and Pakistan; Trump's 'Trade for Ceasefire' Claim Now Part of Court Records; BJP Turns Sindoor into Poll Prop

We Left You Waiting Last Night and We're Sorry!

Heavy Rains Expose Shoddy Infrastructure; A Nation Is Known By the Enemy It Keeps; Wage Share Declines Despite Profit Surge

Modi's Non-Biological Blood; Talk of US Mediation Leaves Jaishankar Tongue-Tied; Illusion of Progress in India–US Carrier Cooperation

Supreme Court Slams Enforcement Directorate for Overstepping Mandate; CBI Files Corruption Case Against Ex-J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik; Pakistan Expels Second Staffer of Indian High Commission

Kannada Writer Banu Mushtaq and Translator Deepa Bhasthi Win International Booker Prize; Academic Ali Khan Mahmudabad Granted Bail With Conditions; Is Licence Raj Coming Back to India?

After Conflict With India, Pak Elevates Gen Munir to Field Marshal Rank; Govt Says No Nuclear Signalling by Pak During Conflict; Head Priest Rejects Army’s Claims About Gun Deployment at Golden Temple

India Not a ‘Dharamshala’ for Refugees from Around the World, Says SC; US and UK Working Together to Ensure ‘Ceasefire Endures’; Entire Nation is Shamed: SC’s Strong Comments Against MP BJP Minister

Russian Foreign Minister Says West Trying to Create Rift Between India and China; India May Increase Chenab Output Beyond Indus Water Treaty; Questions Being Raised About Modi’s Foreign Policy: BBC

Tamil Nadu Protests Presidential Reference; In India’s TV War Rooms, the ‘Generals’ Were Loud, Facts Optional and the Enemy Always in Retreat; Op. Tukey Now Underway

Pakistan Committed to Truce With India, But “Will Retaliate to Future Aggression”; India Rejects China’s Attempts to Rename Places in Arunachal; India Informs WTO of Proposal to Impose Tariffs on US

Is Modi's Friend Up to Mischief, or Is He Telling the Truth? Stagnant Wages, Soaring Prices Squeeze India’s Middle Class

Nuclear Blackmail By Pakistan Will Not be Tolerated, Says Modi; India Mum on Trump’s Repeated Claim of Credit for Ceasefire; Prospects of US Mediating India-Pakistan Ceasefire is Double-Edged Sword

Modi’s Blocking of The Wire Is More Brazen Than the British Raj’s Censorship Regime; Godi Media Plumb New Depths

India, Pakistan Jump Up Escalatory Ladder; US Urges 'Immediate De-Escalation'; Under Cover of Conflict, Censorship Drive Gets Real; India's Real Covid Death Toll Revealed

India Says It Struck ‘Terrorist Infrastructure’ in Pakistan, Braces for Threatened Response Amidst Pak Claim of Downing Five Fighter Jets; 15 Civilians Killed by Pakistani Gunfire Near LoC

Satya Pal Malik Lets Loose Against Modi, Calling Him ‘Cowardly’; India and Britain Clinch Trade Deal After Three Years; Modi Government’s Counterproductive Response to Pahalgam

CJI Set to Lower the Boom on Justice Yashwant Verma; Uniform Silence: How National Institutions Failed Himanshi Narwal After Pahalgam

Chinese View of Post-Pahalgam Tension; BJP Minister Wants 'Jobs for Hindus'; Terrorists 'Killed Hindus as Tactic to Divide Indians on Communal Lines' Says Ex-Army Officer

What’s Behind Modi Government’s Caste Census Announcement; Don’t Go After Muslims or Kashmiris is Appeal of Wife of Navy Officer Killed by Terrorists

With Pahalgam Lapses and Bihar Polls Front and Back, Modi Buckles on Caste Census; How One School Principal is Keeping Secularism Alive

Kashmiri Students In Punjab Faced Hostility After Pahalgam Attack; Union Government Shuts 48 Tourist Spots in Kashmir; Omar Abdullah’s Heartfelt Speech in J&K Assembly Captures Nehru’s Vision

UP Police File Sedition Case Against Folk Singer and Professor Who Criticised Modi on Pahalgam; After Anti-Terror Rallies, Demolitions Sour Mood in Kashmir

Centre Blames Local Officials for Pahalgam Security Lapse—But Its Own Tourism Push May Be to Blame; How J&K Land Politics Is Being Weaponised; Pak's 'False Flag' Obsession

From Indus Treaty to LoC, Potential Terrain of India-Pak Conflict Widens; Pahalgam Provocation—and a Dangerous Trap India Must Not Fall Into

India Announces Diplomatic Action Against Pakistan; Indus Waters Treaty Put in Abeyance; Pakistan’s Defence Attaches Expelled from India; The Rising Profile of Akshardham Temple After 2014

Many Feared Dead in Terrorist Attack in Kashmir; US V-P JD Vance Calls on India to Give More Access to American Firms; Catholic Leaders Cite Pope As Saying Indian Govt ‘Did Not Open Doors For Me’

JD Vance in India; To Woo US, Modi May Scrap Liability Protection from Nuclear Accidents; Israel-India Arms Nexus Deepens; Poet vs Artist; Toxic Rice

Why Has the ED Renewed its Witch-Hunt Against the Gandhis Now? Indian Students in US Facing Visa Problems Reach out to Missions; US Agency Probes Discrimination Charges Against TCS

VP Dhankhar Criticises SC's Time-Limit Directive to President; Forensic Report Ready on Biren Singh Tapes on Manipur Violence; RSS-Linked Body Wants ‘Indian Values’ in Comedy

Supreme Court Suggests Stay on Modi's Controversial New Waqf Law; Centre Silent as Fadnavis Encroaches On Nuclear Turf; Farooq vs Dulat

Chargesheets in National Herald Case Against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi; Protests Over Waqf Act Spread to Bangar in West Bengal; Ambedkar Arrives on the Indian Big and Small Screen

Hindi Imposition Marches On; Tahawwur Rana May Have Been ‘Small Player’ in 26/11 But Can Help Fill in Vital Blanks; Congo Chimps at Vantara

Trump’s Tariffs are Modi’s Demonetisation Redux: The Wrecking Ball of Economic Illiteracy; Ramdev's Beverage Bigotry

NIA Secures Extradition of Tahawwur Rana; Passage of Waqf Act Shows Indian Muslims are Political Orphans; Delhi Backed Trade Talks Amid Trump’s Bluster

Trump Calls 90 Day Pause in Tariff War He Started; India's Carrier Woes Are Self-Inflicted; Open Letter from India to America

Supreme Court Criticises TN Governor R N Ravi for Withholding Assent to 10 Bills; Bombay HC Issues Notice to Mumbai Police and Sena MLA on Kunal Kamra Plea; The Speech Rahul Gandhi Will Not Make

Trump Tariffs Gut Global Markets; Hindutva Gangs Sully Ram Navami Spirit; Start-Up Bros Turn on Kunal Kamra

Political Leaders Promote Hate Speech for Political Gain, Says Supreme Court Judge; China Hits Back at US Tariffs But Modi Silent; Indian Pharma Braces for New Blow

Trump’s New Tariff Plan Will Hit Indian Economy Badly; Lok Sabha Passes Waqf Bill in Late Night Session; Waqf Bill is Not a Muslim Issue, it Affects all of India

BJP Steamrolling Waqf Amendment; Top RSS Leader Instructs Sangh Workers to Join Mathura, Varanasi Revanchism; Action Plan for INDIA Bloc

Hours Before Trump’s Tariff Deadline, US Objects to India’s Trade and Agri Policies; UK’s Hindu Extremists Forming Alliances with Far Right Groups, says Report; Court Orders FIR Against Kapil Mishra

Unceremonious End to Modi’s Smart Cities Mission; Countdown to Trump Tariffs Begin; BJP Govts Target Eid, Impose Food Restrictions

Report Exposes Communal Prejudice Among Police; Delhi HC Restores Modi Critic’s OCI Card; How New Is Naya Bharat's New Power Elite?

Stalin Takes on Adityanath's 'Riot-for-Vote-Politics'; Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha Chairs Make Partisan Rulings; Assam Reporter Rearrested After Getting Bail

US Panel on Religious Freedom Recommends Sanctions Against RAW; India a ‘State Actor’ Enabling Drug Trafficking Says US Intel Report’; Lok Sabha Speaker Does Not Allow me to Speak says Rahul Gandhi

Canadian Spy Agency Says India, China May Interfere in Country’s Elections; India May Slash Tariffs on US Goods in a Big Way; Kunal Kamra Says He Will Not Back Down

'One Nation, One Culture', Or Else; Nagpur Municipality Defies HC and Demolishes Homes of Riot Accused, Trump to Penalise India for Buying Venezuelan Oil

Modi Government's Flagship PLI Scheme Comes a Cropper; SC Collegium Transfers Judge, Allahabad HC Bar Fumes; Trump Has Not Been Trump Enough

Babri Masjid, Aurangzeb's Grave, What's Next for Hindutva? Why Musk's Starlink Raises Concerns in India; ANI Called Out (Again)

BJP Would be Enraged at Gandhi’s Nuanced Understanding of Aurangzeb; India Falls to 24th Out of 33 Countries in Free Speech Ranking; Shekhar Kapoor is Angry With Amazon Prime for Chopping Bandit Queen

Delimitation as Punishment for Good Performance; Mod-Gates Bromance; UP Police Bans Fair; FIR in Nagpur Against VHP for Hurting Religious Sentiments

Gujarat Riots Took Place in the ‘Backdrop’ of 9/11, Kandahar Hijack, Says Modi; Europe Versus Russia (And America); Modi Govt Planning to Auction 11 Airports, Profitable and Loss Making

We Need Festivals of Confluence, Not Orgies of Conflict

Adityanath, UP Officials, Play Holi With Communal Colours; Modi Govt Blames 45 Students for NEET Leak; Maharashtra Farmers Protest

Bill Proposed to Deny Foreigners Visas on Grounds of National Security; Urdu’s Exile Diminishes Indian Pluralism; Intl Commission of Jurists Raises Concern Over Independence of Indian Judiciary

Thirteen of the World’s 20 Most Polluted Cities Are in India; Both Trump and Modi Rule by Headlines, but it Comes at a Cost; Bharti Airtel Signs up to Bring Elon Musk’s Starlink to India

Jaishankar Being Too Optimistic in Saying Trump’s Global Shifts ‘Suit India’; What Lies Behind Rise of AI-Generated Porn Images of Muslim women?

Jaishankar Blundered By Showing India’s Hand on Currency Multipolarity; Supreme Court to Hear Pegasus Case Again; Buy Our Weapons, Open Agri to Reach Trade Deal Says US

Modi Govt's Silence on US Tariffs; India Attacks UN Report on Bangladesh on Grounds That Apply to Itself; Trump Making Nuclear Proliferation Great Again

Communal Slurs in ‘Poor Taste’ but ‘Don’t Hurt Religious Sentiments’ says SC; SP MLA Abu Azmi Suspended from Maharashtra Assembly for Aurangzeb Remark; How AAP Missed the Point About Politics in Delhi

Bombay High Court Stays Case Against Ex-SEBI Chief Buch; Adityanath Admits Playing Down News of Stampede; Is All Okay Between BJP and Nitish Kumar?

Supreme Court Raps Gujarat Police for FIR Over Poem; Trump’s MAGA, Modi’s MIGA Share Contempt for Diversity, Affirmative Action

IMF Expects Turbulent Time for Indian Economy; POCSO Summons for BJP's Yediyurappa; Tharoor Takes on Express

India Ranked 'Partly Free' in Global Rankings Again; New Chinese Radar Sytem Will Track Indian Missiles; Modi's Degree; Mercantilist Trump and Cost of US Alliance

Before Trump, Modi Can Agree on India Buying F-35s, US Needs to Shed its S-400 Phobia; Stalin, Amit Shah Spar Over Delimitation

French Firm Blows Whistle on Corruption in Mumbai Authority; Canada’s New Migration Rules to Affect Indians; Beef/Buff? Wrong Word Can Be Dangerous

Why Shashi Tharoor Gets it Wrong on the Trump-Modi Meeting; The Mystery of USAID Funding for Indian Elections Continues; BBC India and Its Directors Fined by Enforcement Directorate

Rail Min Orders X to Take Down 285 Videos Showing Deaths During Delhi Stampede; USAID’s $21 Million Dollars Was Not for India But Bangladesh; Indian and Pak Armies Meet in Poonch to Defuse Tensions

Jairam Ramesh Calls for White Paper on USAID Funding in India; The ‘Model Minority’ Myth of Indians in the US is Busted; Meta Removes Accounts of BJP Legislator T Raja Singh

Rekha Gupta Will Be Delhi CM, BJP's First Woman Pick in 15 States; Trump Tells Tariff Tales About Modi; Elon's 'Musk-a' Opens Doors for Tesla? Q&A is Qatar and Adani

Faecal Concentration Reported at the Maha Kumbh; Excessive Focus on Defence in Modi-Trump Statement a Cause for Concern

It's Official: Lanka Says Adani Energy Tariff Was 'Excessive'; What Shackled Indians Returning Home Tell Us About India

India Commits to Buying More Weapons and Energy From the US; Two More Flights With Deported Indians to Land This Week; Gautam Adani Quietly Builds Up Influence in the US

President’s Rule Imposed in Manipur; Modi Goes to the US, Bearing Gifts; India and Pakistan Clash Over Ownership of Basmati Rice

Govt Eases Rules For Adani to Set Up Energy Plant Within a Km of Indo-Pak Border; Is the US Really an Indispensable Nation? Why are Gujaratis From ‘Model State’ Rushing to the US as Illegal Migrants?

Trump’s Executive Order on Corruption Could be a Relief for Adani; Big Spike in Hate Speech Mostly in BJP-Ruled States; Britain’s War on Illegal Workers Hits Indian Restaurants the Most

An Era of Darkness: How No Data Helps the BJP’s Politics; AAP’s Delhi Loss Has its Punjab Unit Worried; Biren Singh’s Resignation is Like Sacrificing a Pawn to Save the King

Number of Voters in Maharashtra More Than State’s Population says Rahul Gandhi; Modi Govt.’s Tepid Statements About US Treatment of Indians; When Supreme Court Upheld Provisions of PMLA

Jaishankar Sees Nothing Unusual or Offensive About US Shackling Indian Deportees; AI's Future in India is Caught Between Modi’s Rhetoric, Rahul’s Realism

Delhi Elections AAP’s Biggest Challenge So Far; US Military Plane Carrying 104 Undocumented Indian Nations Lands in Amritsar; Death Toll in Kumbh Mela Stampede Likely to be 79

US Military Plane Heads to India With Deported Undocumented Migrants; The Many Crises Set off by Donald Trump; Shoot Cow Thieves Publicly Says Congress Minister

Can This Budget Really Spur Growth or Consumption?; Rahul Gandhi’s Jabs at PM Modi For Trying to Get Trump Inauguration Invitation; Non-Bailable Warrants by Kerala Court Against Ramdev, Balakrishna

Economic Survey Says Growth in 2025-26 Between 6.3 Percent to 6.8 Percent; Hindu Mahasabha ‘Honours’ Godse on Gandhi Death Anniversary; Making Sense of Donald Trump

Kumbh Death Toll Questioned; Secret Sauce Behind China Innovations; Can Trump, Modi Clinch Trade Deal? Indian Media Misreads Canadian Report on Nijjar

Thirty People Killed, 60 Injured in Stampede at the Kumbh Mela; Doing Away of Separate Rail Budget a Colossal Mistake; Rape-Murder Convicted Ram Rahim Gets Parole Before Elections, Yet Again

BJP’s Coffers Grow by 87 Percent After 2024 Elections; Tax Authorities Revoke Non-Profit Status of Reporters’ Collective; Congress is Losing Its Moorings

Parliament Committee Rejects All Opposition Amendments to Proposed Waqf Bill; Communal Riots Increased in 2024, Highest in Maharashtra; Indian News Organisations Sue OpenAI for Copyright Violation

India is Relying on Hope to Deal With Trump’s High Tariff Plans; Sri Lanka Revokes Power Purchase Agreement With Adani; Unchecked Persecution of Christians Will Threaten Christian Identity

S Jaishankar Says US Figures of Indians to be Deported May Not be Correct; What is this ‘Civilisational Justice’ the RSS Seeks; Not Many Takers in the Navy for Kurta Pajama Outfits

Twelve Killed in First Rail Accident of 2025; Officials Seek Early Modi-Trump Meeting; Lessons on Pluralism from Netaji, Nitaji's Million Dollar Look

India’s Economy is ‘Stale and Bereft of Ideas’ says Arvind Subramanian; Uttarakhand Approves Rules for Uniform Civil Code; When Will the Right Time Come for Jammu and Kashmir Statehood

In Delhi University, Propaganda Replaces Pedagogy; Convicted Rapist in Kolkata Hospital Case Sentenced to Life; IIT Madras Director Praises the Virtues of Cow Urine

After Making Communal Remarks, Allahabad HC Judge Defends Them; Manmohan Singh Steered Foreign Policy in New Directions

India Becomes Fourth Country to Achieve ‘Space Docking’; Donald Trump’s Plans to Take Over Countries is Alarming; Saif Ali Khan is Out of Danger After Surgery

Modi Government Acknowledges Official Was Involved in Plot to Kill Pannun; Meta Apologises For Zuckerberg ‘Gaffe’; Modi Factor in Absentia in Manipur

Searching for Laapata Vinod Rai; Adani Built Naval Drone Crashes Into the Sea During Trials; Company Linked to Ashwini Vaishnaw Sees Rise in Fortune

Rupee Falls to 86.57; Regional Parties Responsible For Uncertainty in INDIA bloc; India’s Economy to be Weaker This Year, says IMF Chief

China to Send Top Official to Trump Inauguration, No Invite for Modi; BJP Looks for a Winning Formula in Delhi Elections; Unsecured Loans in Banks Rise, so Does Delinquency

Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation is Not Yet on the Fast Track; Delhi Police Officers Can Now Issue ‘Takedown Orders’ to Social Media Companies; India Drops Five Spots in Most Powerful Passport Rankings

Indian FS Meets Taliban Minister; AAP Scores Point Over BJP in CM Residence Row; AI Doesn't Have Answers for India's Frustrated Economy

Narendra Modi’s Regard for Savarkar Insults Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel; No Cause for Concern With New HMP Virus; Convicted of Rape, Asaram Bapu Granted Interim Bail

Bastar Contractor Arrested After Journalist’s Body Found His Property; Prashant Kishor Arrested by Patna Police; Government Publishes Draft Rules for Data Protection Act

Supreme Court Wants Answers on Caste Discrimination in Higher Education; Modi's Cow Tamasha a 'Personal Matter' Says PMO

Sorry Rajnath Singh ji, India’s Security Challenges Need Competence, Not Luck; Prison Manuals Amended Finally to Prohibit Caste Discrimination in Jails

Biren's Curious Apology to Manipur 'Natives'; Public Erasure of Manmohan at South Asian University; Dosanjh Kisses the Ring