For BJP, Gyanvapi is like Babri. It’ll swing elections but...
May 25 ,2022
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By: Vir Sanghvi
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It was the vehemence of the reaction from the BJP establishment that convinced me that this time was...
US pressure forces India to reassess its options
May 25 ,2022
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By: John P Ruehl
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a boat tour in Sochi, Russia, in 2018. India's relations...
Quad welcomes Albanese and vows to defend international or...
From left, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Pri...
2 American Super Hornets in India as Boeing looks to showc...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Shehesh Alex Philip
Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet pulls off its first successful launch from a ski-jump at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, US | Photo cr...
India shouldn’t retain ties with Afghanistan’s previous ru...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Nayanima Basu
File photo of Suhail Shaheen, Taliban spokesman | Twitter/@suhailshaheen1
New Delhi: India should establish ties based on nat...
Congress can hold a million ‘Chintan Shivirs’ but can’t de...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Vir Sanghvi
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It is somehow typical of the mess that Rahul Gandhi finds himse...
How ‘Bangladeshi citizen’ Alo Rani Sarkar fought West Beng...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Sreyashi Dey
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May 24 ,2022
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By: Unnati Sharma
File photo of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma | ANI photo
New Delhi: Speaking at an event organised by the Rashtriya...
India’s heatwave exposes divide in access to cooling equip...
May 24 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A labourer sleeps at an air cooler market on a hot summer day in New Delhi [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]
As the scorching sun beat d...
India should rethink plans to become a semiconductor hub
May 24 ,2022
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By: Henny Sender
A woman whose farming land had been transferred to build a solar power plant grazes her cow near the plant in Mikir Bamuni village, A...
What RSS chief Bhagwat really meant when he said ‘Akhand B...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Madhuparna Das
Illustration credit: Soham Sen | ThePrint
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Biden set to launch anti-BRI plan for India & others
May 24 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday to launch a plan for greater U.S. economic engagement with the Indo-Pacific, facing crit...
Autonomous Hindutva could devour both India and the Bharat...
May 24 ,2022
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By: Bharat Bhushan
With the rapid radicalisation of sections of Hindu society, the Hindutva project has become dangerously autonomous. It is no...
How can India fulfil its defence requirements in a post-Uk...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
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India trims tax on gasoline and diesel to fight inflation
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Riders fill up their two-wheelers at a gas station in Ahmedabad, India. © Reuters
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India’s once-vaunted statistical infrastructure is crumbli...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The modern Indian state has a proud statistical heritage. Soon after the country gained independence in 1947, the government resol...
Mughals are the latest villains of BJP and the Hindutva br...
May 23 ,2022
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By: Sidharth Bhatia
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India looking at spending Rs 2 trillion more to fight infl...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Photo: Bloomberg
The Indian government is considering spending an additional 2 trillion rupees ($26 billion) in the 2022/23 fiscal...
India’s export ban makes wheat cheap – hurting farmers alr...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
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In South Asia, Bangladesh’s ‘deft’ balancing of US, China...
May 23 ,2022
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By: Maria Siow
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India’s politicians have figured out how to turn welfare i...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
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