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Sporting glory deserves equal recognition

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  • 2026-10-23 --

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The Asian Games celebrate sporting excellence, bringing together athletes who have spent years honing their skills and pushing the limits of human per Read more...

Needed better spatial planning for religious gatherings

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  • 2026-10-20 --

Two back-to-back festival eve tragedies in Kolkata and near Gwalior highlight the challenges of ensuring safety at places drawing devotees in their thousands. These also call for effective policing Read more...

Parched land: Will we run out of water?

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  • 2026-10-17 --

Karnataka is perhaps facing the most severe drought since 1970 with Southwest Monsoon precipitation registering a 35% deficit. The State Government has declared 217 of the 226 talukas as drought-af Read more...

Removing CEC not enough

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  • 2026-10-15 --

Ever since the youth led protest against the NEET paper leak and the ouster of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the country has been witnessing a continuous stream of anger against the govern Read more...

Draconian clampdown against democratic dissent

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  • 2026-10-13 --

The lockdown of the capital Delhi on Saturday (October 10) against protestors of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) shows the brazen highhandedness of the Narendra Modi Government against popular diss Read more...

SIR: Electoral outcomes too need a review

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  • 2026-10-10 --

Nearly two months after the stir kicked up over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and deletion of the 14 crore voters, it is pretty much evident that the exercise was unne Read more...

Democracy being killed in name of democracy

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  • 2026-10-22 --

Democracies don’t die at the hands of the military despots any-more. Now elected autocrats use a new template to smother democracy: changing the rules of the game. Stephen Levitsky, professor Read more...

Deep-rooted Systemic Flaws Must Be Fixed

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  • 2026-10-19 --

From Paris to Brussels, from Tirana to Rome and New Delhi, youths are pouring onto the streets and voicing their discontent. Grievances and primary triggers are largely local. But the common thread Read more...

When the pitch becomes a batter’s ally

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  • 2026-10-16 --

There is something fundamentally wrong when a cricket pitch begins to resemble a launchpad for batters rather than a surface on which a contest between bat and ball can unfold. The spectacle may be Read more...

Engage, don’t crush protesters

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  • 2026-10-14 --

What Delhi witnessed on Saturday was unprecedented. Even during the infamous Emergency of the 1970s, the capital had not witnessed such an extraordinary mobilisation of police to prevent citizens f Read more...

US PERM move: Advantage India

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  • 2026-10-12 --

On October 8, the US Anti-Fraud Task Force, led by Vice President JD Vance and Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling, suspended eight major IT companies from the Permanent Labour Certification (PERM) p Read more...

When the baton matters more than the captain

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  • 2026-10-09 --

Harmanpreet Kaur could hardly have chosen a more appropriate moment to hand over the captaincy. Her final assignment as India captain ended with a second successive Asian Games gold, won by a comma Read more...