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Modi Govt Doubles Jet Fuel Prices for a Few Hours, Then Reverses; Indian Census Begins Five Years Late; CEC Gyanesh Kumar has Formal Power but has Lost Moral Authority

Eight People Killed in Stampede at Temple in Bihar’s Nalanda; China and Pakistan Jointly Call for End to West Asia War; Biju Patnaik’s Legacy Cannot be Undermined by BJP MP’s Malicious Charges

World Leaders Losing Sleep Over Iran War But Not India; Pakistan Busies Itself With Risky Mediation; Indian Rupee Falls to 95/$, Tighter IT Rules to Protect Modi from Free Speech

Iran, US Are in “Indirect Talks”, Will Meet in Pakistan Soon: German Minister; Modi Govt Keeps Oil Prices Steady, Oppn. Says Only Till Elections; Veterans Unsettled by General's Bhagawad Gita Lecture

In Abu Dhabi, West Asia War Claims Seventh Indian Life; Trump Defers Iran's Strait of Hormuz ‘Deadline’; Ghettoisation Under Gujarat Model to March On

Confusion Prevails Over Iran’s Response to US Proposal to End War; Rajya Sabha too Passes Contentious Transgender Bill; Ram Navami and the Changing Character of Secularism in Bengal

Trump Wants Sharif to Host Talks But Iran Cites 'Zero Trust'; Reliance Buys Iran Oil With US Nod; Pankaj Mishra on the Authority of Thought and the Darkness of Our Times

Trump Blinks, Promises to Hold Off Escalation; Pak Said to Play Mediation Role as India Remains MIA; Trans Community Opposes Modi Govt Bill

Two Indian LPG Tankers Await Hormuz Crossing; Police Bias in Nagpur; Modi's Censors Block Gaza Film; Without Engine, India’s 6th-Gen Fighter Talk Rings Hollow

Amid Attacks on Energy Facilities Modi Phones Gulf Capitals but not Tehran; Damage to Qatari LNG Plant Bodes Ill For India; Modi Govt Muzzling Accounts on X Smacks of Paranoia

Will Govt Allow More Ministries to Demand Content Takedowns Under Sec 69A?; Modi Speaks to UAE President Amid Silence From India-Led BRICS; Mahmudabad Case: SC Should Have Rebuked Lawbreakers in Power

Bloodbath in Kabul After Pak Airstrike; India Accuses US Mercenary, Six Ukrainians of Fuelling Insurgency along Mizoram-Myanmar Border; ECI Vs We the People

Did India Offer Anything to Tehran in Exchange for Free Passage of Its Ships? India’s GDP Has Been Overstated by 22% Say Economists; How Iran is Fighting This War in a Different Way

Tehran Urges India, as Chair of BRICS, to Play a “Strong” Role in Addressing West Asia Conflict; Two India-Flagged Tankers Allowed to Transit Hormuz Strait; Himanta Biswa Sarma’s Hate Speech Flows On

Modi Phones Iranian Prez Pezeshkian 13 Days After Start of US-Israeli Attacks; Govt Gives Nod to Kerosene, Coal Use Amid Energy Crisis; Ructions in Lok Sabha as Oppn Points to Puri's Epstein Links

Shots Fired at Farooq Abdullah; Trump's $300 Billion Refinery Announcement Boosts Reliance Even if it Never Materialises; The Joke That Power Fears

Gas Supply Concerns Mount as US-Israel Attacks on Iran Continue; From Cricket to Bihar, India's Political Families are Alive and Kicking

India Starts Feeling Crunch of Low LPG Supplies; Jaishankar Says India Approved Docking Facilities to Three Iranian Ships; Opposition to Seek Impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar

GenZ Wave Upends Nepal's Electoral Map; Anger as US Says It Will Temporarily 'Allow' India to Buy Russian Oil; 'Vishwaguru' Without Compass

India Still Silent on US-Israeli War on Iran But FS Finally Condoles Khamenei Death; Indian Refiners Pick Up Russian Oil as Hormuz Choked; First Polls in Nepal Since GenZ Revolt

US Sinks Iranian Frigate Off Lanka, Brings War to South Asian Waters; Trump’s Iran War Reckless But Is His Political Call, Unlike Modi Passing China Buck to Army Chief; Cooking Gas Shortages Expected

As Trump Pushes Kurds Against Iran, Did Netanyahu Raise 'Baloch Card' With Modi? Kejriwal Should Realise the Allure of Jantar Mantar is Misplaced

India Fails Strategic Autonomy Test as US-Israel War on Iran Expands; Canada Claims Intel Links Indian Consulate to Nijjar Killing; Judge Faults Trumped Up Police Case Against Shirtless Protestors

Kejriwal, Sisodia Cleared in Liquor Policy Case; Rs 25k cr Co-Op Bank Case Against Ajit, Sunetra Pawar is Closed; Norwegian Sovereign Fund Excludes Adani Green from Portfolio Over Corruption Concerns

Modi Ends Israel Visit With Paltry 'List of Outcomes' and an Ersatz Medal; SC Flexes Muscles, to Defend Image; What AI Sovereignty Really Means

Netanyahu Benefits from Modi Hug; India Refuses to Back Ukraine Ceasefire Call; NCERT Pulls ‘Corruption in Judiciary’ Section Amid CJI Scolding; National Security and the Schoolboy Robot

Modi’s Israel Visit: 7 Flashpoints; Carney’s India Reset; Army Brass, Govt in Lockstep

Modi Touted US Trade Deal as 'Win', Now Happy to Hit Pause; No Source Codes, Spectre of Probe Mar New Rafale Deal; Deletion Baba on a Roll; Manipuri Film Wins at BAFTA

Modi Appeases Trump and His Gaza Board of Peace; To Join Pax Silica, India Promises AI Regulation That's 'Unapologetically Friendly to Entrepreneurship'

Andrew Arrested, Gates Skips Delhi Meet But Epstein's Indian Chums Unaffected; US Playing Geopolitical Chess With AI, Wants India to Fall in Line; Sahyog Portal's Censorship Tools Laid Bare

India Does Not Join 85 States in Condemning Israel's Expansion in West Bank; Galgotias University Gets Booted Out from AI Summit for Passing Chinese Robodog as its Own; Come On, Be a Sport

India-France Upgrade Their Ties to ‘Special Global Strategic Partnership’; Tarique Rahman Takes Oath as Bangladesh PM; Italian Bank Investigated ‘Suspicious Activities’ of Vinod Adani’s Associates: FT

SC Asks Gauhati HC to Urgently Hear Plea Seeking FIR Against Assam CM; National Green Tribunal Clears Great Nicobar Project; ‘Cannot Be So Tolerant as to Let India Be Maligned Abroad’, Says Delhi HC

BNP Sweeps Bangladesh Polls; Rafale Deja Vu; Farmers in India Plan Protests Against US Trade Deal; Arundhati Pulls Out of Berlinale Over Jury Making Light of Gaza

BJP's Nishikant Dubey Moves LS Motion Against Rahul Gandhi, “Part of a Thuggery Gang”; Bangladesh Counts Votes From Pivotal Polls; Govt Moves to Degrade Jana Gana Mana to Secondary Status

White House Quietly Corrects Trade Deal Fact Sheet; Hardeep Puri Scores Self-Goal With Epstein Press Conference; MHA's Compulsory Vande Mataram Order Downgrades Jana Gana Mana

Govt Further Tightens Social Media Rules for Content Takedown; 118 Opposition MPs Submit Petition to Remove LS Speaker Om Birla; Meta Blocks Instagram Accounts of CPM Paper and News Portal No Cap

New Delhi Silent as Trump Says US Will Monitor Its ‘Commitment’ to Stop Buying Russian Oil; Pakistan Will Now Play India in T20 World Cup; Assam BJP Depicts Himanta Biswa Sarma as Shooting Muslims

Pakistan, India Spar After Islamabad Terror Bombing Kills 31; Rechin La and the Limits of Buck-Passing; FIR Against Hindi Film

Blind Men of Naya Bharat; Joint Statement on Trade Deal in '4-5 Days', Says Piyush Goyal; Modi Government Continues to Duck Epstein

Chaos Erupts in Parliament After Rahul Gandhi Brings a Copy of Gen Naravane’s Book; Terms of the Indo-US Deal Remain ‘Murky’, Says Congress; Mamata Banerjee Appears Before SC on Her Own Petition

Rahul Gandhi Silenced in Lok Sabha, Eight Protesting MPs Suspended; Y Khemchand Set to Be New Manipur CM; US Official Says India to Eliminate Tariffs on Industrial Goods, Wines, Fruits & Vegetables

Trump Announces Lopsided ‘Trade Deal’, Modi Silent on Indian Concessions; Ex-Army Chief's Memoir Triggers Row in Lok Sabha; Mystery and Mystique of ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’

SC Orders Free Sanitary Pads, Spare Clothes at All Schools; Economic Survey Endorses Govt Move to Repeal MNREGA, Suggests ‘Re-examining’ RTI; US Lobbyist Terminates Campaign for RSS, Says Report

BJP Relieved as Supreme Court Stays UGC Rules; Trump's Board Must Stick to Gaza Peace, Says Palestine FM in Delhi; Why Neither Russia nor America is India’s Reliable Friend

What Ajit Pawar's Death Means for Maharashtra's Political Future; Fear of Accountability in Indian Universities and the Backlash to UGC’s Equity Regulations

Landmark Indo-EU Trade Deal Will Slash Tariffs on Both Sides by Over 95 Percent; BJP Faces Upper Caste Groups' Ire Over New UGC Rules; No More New H-1B Interview Dates Left in 2026

India-EU Free Trade Deal 'Finalised'; Hindutva Fanatics Target Bulleh Shah; Bangladesh Says Adani Overcharged for Power; Farewell Mark Tully

Rupee Tantalisingly Close to 92 to the Dollar; Two Accused in Elgar Parishad Case Granted Bail After Nearly Five and Half Years; Homebound Does Not Make it to Oscar Nomination

Modi Helping Adani Duck SEC Summons; Lack of Nehruvian Indian Leader is Global Tragedy; India Fast-Tracks Spy Satellite Network After Border Blind Spots, but ISRO Failures Raise Alarms

Pakistan Joins Gaza Board, Modi Yet to Say Yes/No to Trump's Plan to Weaken UN; Crashed Air India 787 'Had History of Faults'; Kashmir Reporters Face Police Harassment

Nitin Nabin, 49, Takes Over as Youngest Ever BJP President; Tamil Nadu Governor Walks Out of Assembly Without Reading His Address; India, UAE Sign Letter of Intent for a Strategic Defence Partnership

Trump's Gaza Board Bait for Modi; US Forcing India to Bend on Iran; RBI for BRICS 'Digital Currency Integration'; Zubin Canceled Israel Concerts Over Netanyahu Policies, Rekha Gupta's IQ and AQI

The Unintended Goodness of Donald Trump; BJP Alliance Sweeps Maharashtra Civic Polls, EC Under Scanner Again; AR Rahman on Bollywood Music's Changing Dynamics

Mamata's ‘Interference’ in ED's Raid on I-PAC is Very Serious, Says SC; Maharashtra City Bodies Go to Polls Amid Confusion Over Ink, Voter Lists; Chinese Data Puts India's Trade Deficit at Record High

Trump Attack on Iran Imminent; Canadian Police Say Bishnoi Gang 'Acting on Behalf of' Indian Govt; Singapore's Zubeen Inquest Shows Up Assam Police; Modi Downgrades Lokpal

SC Split on Sanction for Prosecuting Public Servants; Govt ‘Intervenes’ to Stop Promises of ‘Ten-Minute Deliveries’; Thackeray Cousins Invoke Adani's Rapid Expansion In Battle For Mumbai's Civic Body

Like Modi, Reliance is Happy to Go Along With Trump's Venezuela Aggression; Risk of Mass Atrocities in India, US Holocaust Museum Warns; GOI Denies Seeking Phone Source Code

Modi Not Calling Trump Thwarted Indo-US Trade Deal, says Lutnick; Sharjeel Imam Distances Himself from Umar Khalid in Conspiracy Case; Nehru's Call for Independent Foreign Policy is Undermined by Modi

Mamata Walks Into ED Raids on I-PAC, Walks Out With Files; US Senator Says Trump Okayed Bill For 500% Levy on Countries Buying Russian Oil; India May Lift Curbs on Chinese Firms Seeking Govt Contracts

SIR Deletions Hit 13% of Voters in 12 States; Cricket is Latest Political Battleground With Bangladesh; CBFC Delays Vijay's Film; India’s Immigration Law Leaves Refugees in Limbo

Trump Says Modi Told Him, 'Sir, May I See You Please; India Needed Lobbyist to Reach White House; JNU Students to Face New Witch-hunt; CJI Shocker in Mahmudabad Free Speech Case

Supreme Court Normalises Endless Incarceration; Venezuela is Merely the Front Line in America’s China War

US Lawmakers Concerned Over Detention of Umar Khalid, Others; Attacking SRK Exposes Hindutva Right's Double Standards on Bangladeshis; Indore Residents Had Warned of Contaminated Water In October

India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump; Remembering India's Political Prisoners at the Start of 2026