
Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Chandrashekar is a Senior Editor at NDTV. A journalist with 15+ years across print and digital media, he also has degrees in Sociology and Economics. He has worked in the political, business, sports, and entertainment news spaces, but is happiest just watching football.
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NDTV Explains: Everything About India's New 5th-Generation Stealth Fighter
The runway has been cleared - for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft, or AMCA, a homemade fifth-generation stealth fighter that can vault India into an elite club, one of a few nations that can design and build next-gen combat aircraft.
- Wednesday May 28, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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NDTV Explains: India vs China In Race For Arctic Oil, Gas, Shipping Routes
The race to 'conquer' the world's final frontier - the Arctic - is gathering steam and India is gently but firmly positioning itself as a key player in that competition, drawing cards against Russia, the US, the Scandinavian nations, and China.
- Monday May 26, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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NDTV Explains: India And The US' Awkward 'AAA' Ratings Cut, Debt Story
Moody's has joined Fitch and S&P in cutting the US' credit rating, dropping the world's largest economy from a perfect 'AAA' to one notch below. Why? Because of a ballooning federal deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio that threatens an almost unthinkable d
- Friday May 23, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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As Trump Reveals 'Golden Dome', A Look At India's Shield, Israel's Iron Dome
Donald Trump wants a 'golden dome' - a ground- and space-based missile defence system - protecting the US and possibly Canada too, even if it doesn't want to be the 51st state.
- Wednesday May 21, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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"Hasn't Committed Murder": Top Court Relief For Ex-IAS Officer Puja Khedkar
The Supreme Court has allowed anticipatory bail for Puja Khedkar, the ex-IAS trainee officer who made headlines last year over claims that she lied about physical disabilities and forged a backward class certificate to clear the IAS exam.
- Wednesday May 21, 2025
- India News
- Reported by Nupur Dogra, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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NDTV Explains: Donald Trump Went Plane-Shopping, Got A $200 Million "Gift"
The 'inside' story on how US President Donald Trump may have gotten himself a US$200 million Boeing luxury jet from the Qatari royal family, for "FREE" and for use during his presidency and afterwards too.
- Wednesday May 21, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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Is Trump Russian Asset 'Krasnov'? Ex-KGB Agent's Explosive Claim Explained
Donald Trump's statements about an "immediate" negotiation for a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war have brought back jibes on X about the KGB, the Russian secret service, recruiting him as an 'asset' during the Cold War.
- Tuesday May 20, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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'Rs 14 Crore To Masood Azhar...': Rajnath Singh's Warning On Pak Terror Plans
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh offered a stark warning Friday about Pakistan's plans to "spend tax collected from its citizens... to give Rs 14 crore to Masood Azhar", designated an 'international terrorist' by the UN.
- Friday May 16, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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'Apple Will Realise...: Sources On Trump's 'Not In India' Call To Tim Cook
Donald Trump's 'don't want you building in India' exhortation to Apple boss Tim Cook was played down Thursday night, with government sources telling NDTV Profit there is significant value for the global tech giant in India.
- Thursday May 15, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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After Op Sindoor, Pakistan's Turkey-Azerbaijan Links A Red Flag For India
India and Pakistan's 100-hour war in May 2025, emphasised the growing 'three brothers' alliance between Pak, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.
- Thursday May 15, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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"Fellas, Come On...": Donald Trump's Many Claims About India-Pak Ceasefire
Donald Trump the peacemaker. That's the narrative the US President has proposed after India and Pakistan's 100-hour war last week - a conflict started by the Pahalgam attack and wound down by a ceasefire trumpeted first by the Republican leader.
- Wednesday May 14, 2025
- World News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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NDTV Explains | 9 Men, 8 Rape Survivors. The Pollachi Sex Assault Case
Nine men found guilty of the sexual assault and blackmail of several women in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi were handed life terms, till death, by a court in Coimbatore Tuesday afternoon.
- Tuesday May 13, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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How Indian Defences Protected Nation, Shot Down Pak Missiles, Drones
India's 'impregnable' air defence wall - to protect from missile and drone strikes - stood steadfast against two waves of attacks from Pakistan, knocking down projectiles targeting military installations in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Rajasthan.
- Friday May 9, 2025
- India News
- Reported by Vishnu Som, Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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Baba Ramdev: The Yoga Guru And The Court Scrapes Behind His Business Empire
Meet Baba Ramdev - 'yoga guru', entrepreneur, and, over the past few years - a regular in courtrooms across India, courtesy patently misleading ads, unsubstantiated remarks about his Patanjali products' ability to 'cure' diseases such as COVID.
- Friday May 2, 2025
- India News
- Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
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Pahalgam Terrorists Still In South Kashmir, Have Food, Provisions: Sources
The four terrorists who shot and killed 26 people in Pahalgam in south Kashmir on April 22, and who have been on the run since - evading a massive manhunt involving the military and local police - are likely still in the area, NIA sources said.
- Thursday May 1, 2025
- India News
- Reported by Mukesh Singh Sengar, Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan