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Opinion | These Are India's Options Against Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence
Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court - the International Crimes Tribunal - has sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death after a trial in absentia. This verdict raises many questions.
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Opinion | Will Pakistan Regret Letting The Army Back At The Centre Of Power?
It's usually easy to know when a country has fallen to military dictatorship. Tanks on the streets, uniforms in gilded palaces, the political class interned en masse. Sometimes, however, the takeover is more subtle, more insidious.
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Opinion: How Hasina's Death Sentence Has Put Delhi-Dhaka Relations At Crossroads
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, which also included directing destructive force during the June 2024 student-led protests.
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Opinion | The 'Ten-Year Itch' in India-US Defence Relations
Hugs and personal equations between leaders do not make a nation a country of consequence. The fact is that the US would not part with critical technologies, despite all the acronym-rich pacts and treaties being signed.
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Opinion | Modi In Tamil Nadu: A High-Voltage Start, But What About Past Baggage?
The biggest challenge comes from within the NDA fold. The AIADMK, the BJPs principal partner and once the gateway to political relevance in the state, is still navigating deep internal fractures.
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Opinion | Dhaka Irony: How A Court Set Up By Hasina's Father Sentenced Her To Death
As each day passes, the darkness of religious intolerance will only grow. That, in some ways, is even more dangerous. Especially now. Radicalism doesn't come out of a vacuum.
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Opinion | Carbon Walls, Digital Borders, Trade Blocs: India's Exports Need A New Playbook
If India chooses innovation over inertia, collaboration over silos, and sustainability over shortcuts, it can turn this turbulent moment in global trade into an unprecedented opportunity.
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Opinion | 10 Reasons Bengal Won't Be Like Bihar For The BJP
There are ten reasons why BJP may not have it easy in Bihar.
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Opinion | No, RJD Didn't Face A 'Conspiracy'. Here's The Math Behind Its Rout
Rather than pointing to electoral manipulation, the numbers reveal a party that spread its resources too thin, may have contested more seats than its support base could sustain.
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Opinion | What Are Congress And Rahul Up To After Bihar? Hint: 'Jai Jagat Gang'
Instead of introspection, accountability and disciplinary action in the wake of the Bihar verdict, the Congress leadership is busy in a certain 'reward' exercise.
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Opinion | With Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence, It's 1975 Again In Bangladesh
Hasina becomes an emblem of the circularity of South Asian history, where leaders are alternately elevated as saviours and condemned as tyrants, often within a single lifetime.
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Opinion | IND vs SA: How The First Test Became A Lesson In Self-Sabotage
The defeat is not an isolated event; it shows a worrying trend. This was India's fourth loss in its last eight home Tests, a shocking statistic against our previous dominance - we lost just four home Tests in the twelve years from 2012 to 2024.
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Opinion | What Went Wrong For Prashant Kishor? 'Arrogance', Among Other Things
The 2024 Bihar polls may have been a false start for the Jan Suraaj, but whether it becomes a footnote in Bihar's political history or the foundation for a future force will depend entirely on how its leadership responds to this poll result.
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Opinion | INDIA Bloc Is Running Out Of Patience With Congress. Can You Blame Them?
Like pollution in Delhi, Indian National Congresss continuous downfall seems insurmountable: no solution is in sight, nor is any effort being made to find a way out.
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Opinion | For BJP, Bengal Won't Be As Easy As Bihar
It has been the BJPs singular weakness in West Bengal that it never quite gets the cultural, historical and political details right. And these details matter.
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Opinion | Congress Should Now Learn: It Can't Always Be About Rahul Gandhi
The Congress is everyone's favourite whipping boy. However, it must accept the lion's share of the blame in all humility for the Mahagathbandhan's shambolic campaign in Bihar.
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Opinion | Bihar Must Be A Lesson To Opposition: Value The Woman Voter
Here is a constituency that cuts across caste, religion and social economic dynamics, and we would be doing our election strategy a huge disservice by not engaging with it meaningfully.
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Opinion | Dear Delhi Pollsters, Please Stop Writing Nitish Kumar Off Every Election
The JD(U)'s tally of more than 80 seats reaffirms what analysts often forget: Nitish's electoral machine, and the social coalitions it rests on, do not wither simply because poll pundits in Delhi want a new plotline.
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Opinion | The Bihar Election's Script Was Actually Written In Haryana. Here's How
This is not the first election in which political analysts and observers have gone so wrong. Remember Haryana and Maharashtra?
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Opinion | Bihar's Lesson For Congress And Rahul Gandhi? Just Photo-Ops Won't Do
Rahul Gandhi's relationship with allies may have managed to produce some striking media moments, but not public trust. The result is a politics of half-gestures: common pressers without common strategies, joint slogans without joint cadres,
