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Opinion | Prashant Kishor Is Now Facing The Hardest Test Of His Entire Career
The strategist who once told parties how to win must now prove that he knows how to do that himself.
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Opinion | Pak Has A Kashmir Crisis - And It May Already Be Planning To Export It To India
The lie of 'Azad Kashmir' is fast catching up with Pakistan. But it might just use it to push India into a tough spot.
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Opinion: India's SpaceX Moment Is Here; Vikram-1 And The Startup Rocket Revolution
Vikram-1 is a serious technical undertaking, not a symbolic gesture. The seven-storey, carbon-composite rocket has been developed largely in-house, with solid, liquid and upper-stage propulsion technologies under Skyroot's Kalam, Raman and Dhawan programmes.
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Ringside View | Portugal's Greatest Mistake Was Making The World Cup About Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is still a great player, but he is nowhere near where he used to be. Other teams do not fear him as much as they used to.
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Opinion | America, Trump, And The Politics Of Belonging In A Connected World
Many commentators view the current debate as another chapter in Donald Trump's political story. That explanation is incomplete.
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Opinion | Vladimir Putin Hasn't Looked This Desperate In Over 25 Years
As the Russian position weakens, there is possibility of a coup against Putin, for whom just too many things have gone wrong in the last four years.
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Opinion | Decoding Zoonotic Spillover Through A 'One-Health' Approach
The next pandemic threat may already be circulating silently at the human-animal-environment interface. Whether it remains localised or escalates into a global crisis will depend on our ability to understand and address its drivers.
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Opinion | Uniform Civil Code And The Primacy of Constitutional Rights Over Personal Laws
In the context of Muslim personal law, state intervention is neither arbitrary nor majoritarian but is triggered when certain rules produce systemic rights-violations, particularly gender-based discrimination.
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What Cities Owe Their Anganwadis
From cramped rented rooms to purpose-built commons: anganwadi centres are the invisible infrastructure of Indian cities. Recognise and invest in them, and you rebuild urban life from the ground up
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Opinion | America's Battlefield Dominance Is Under Serious Threat
Warfare, strategy and weapons systems are morphing at extraordinary speed. The US still possesses by far the most capable military.
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Opinion | What Modi's Jakarta Visit Means For The Small Seller And The Small Buyer
India's digital public infrastructure, anchored in Aadhaar for identity, UPI for payments, and more recently the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) for digital transactions, has become one of the most closely studied government-built technology stacks in the world
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Opinion | Satluj, Jaswant Singh Khalra, And When Disappearance Is The Story
Jaswant Singh Khalra followed the dead to restore their dignity. Three decades later, a film on his life briefly appeared and then disappeared from Indian screens.
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Anticipating A New Era In Nepal-India Relations
Geography, civilization, deep people-to-people ties, and a shared commitment to democratic ideals provide a stable foundation for the relationship between India and Nepal
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Congress At Akal Takht: A New Chapter But Not Historical Closure
The Congress high command may have achieved an organisational accommodation on paper, but the real challenge will be converting this arrangement into collective leadership
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Opinion: Karnataka's Factionalism And Goa's Baggage Are BJP's Next Electoral Tests
Recent developments have exposed cracks in both states.
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Opinion | The Story Of Congress And Its Never-Ending Obsession With 'Committees'
The present-day Congress works on a mantra that says loud and clear - when in doubt, set up a committee.Whether they achieve anything is another matter.
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Opinion | How Texas Became Hub Of A Terror-Link Kashmiri Outfit's Activities
Across the state, a collection of terror networks and their Islamist partners are using US politicians, institutions and nonprofit infrastructure to advance violent, radical ambitions.
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Opinion | Pak Needs To Understand: Its Indus Treaty 'Threats' To India Are Fooling No One
Pakistan's hysterics and fits haven't impressed India, much less make her re-consider her stand on the treaty. If Islamabad is trying to threaten its way to water, it is already failing.
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Opinion | State As AI Shareholder: The Washington Model India Can't Ignore
The US is turning the state into a minority investor in AI giants. India should study this model closely before the geopolitical window closes.
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Opinion | Punjab 2027: Why Cash Transfers Alone May Not Be Enough for AAP
Punjab's voters have a history and a habit of doing things different from voters in the Hindi heartland. It is possible that they may react differently to the cash transfer scheme as well.n
