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Analysis - Bihar 2025: The Poll That Could Turn On 6,300 Votes
The latest Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral roll has concluded with a significant reduction of 51 lakh voters, amounting to a 6% drop from the rolls as of May 2025.
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Opinion | Ladakh Needs A Healing Hand, Not Divisive Politics - An IAF Officer's Plea
The local authorities have their task cut out to bring in peace in the short term. However, the long-term aim must be to bring back the mutual confidence and trust that existed so far.
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Opinion | Why The Taliban Foreign Minister Is Really Visiting India
New Delhi's growing engagement with the Taliban comes at a time when the group's political reality in Afghanistan has become much more apparent, with more and more countries establishing some form of communication framework with them.
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Opinion | To Just Welcome The 'Immigrant' Is Not The Point - By Shashi Tharoor
Nations have the right to regulate entry, to balance openness with cohesion. But the tone of the current moment suggests something more corrosive - a retreat not just from policy generosity, but from moral imagination.
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Opinion | Rajasthan High Court Abolishes Princely Titles - Yet Indian Courts Cling To 'My Lord'
As the courts increasingly see a generation of Gen Z lawyers and litigants enter their halls, they must modernise their modes of communication. The rigid and antiquated language of the courtroom risks alienating the very public it serves.
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Opinion | 'Pasni' Offer Proves Pak Can Betray Anyone - Even China - For A Deal
China has consistently supported Pakistan - diplomatically, economically, and militarily - even during Islamabad's periods of isolation. Yet, despite this "iron brotherhood", Pakistan's recent moves show that loyalty in Islamabad is negotiable.
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Opinion | Why China's 'Assured Retaliation' Nuclear Doctrine Has Sent Others Into A Spiral
China's investment in long-range delivery systems is understandably directed towards the US. But its continuous development of intermediate delivery systems has sent its neighbours into a tizzy.
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Opinion | Straight Talk: Just How Big Is The Effect Of Trump Tariffs On India?
Despite headline growth figures signalling resilience, India's informal sector, which employs hundreds of millions, remains exposed to external shocks and structural weaknesses.
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Opinion | Identity Crisis: On Aadhaar, Citizenship, And The Right To Vote
While the Supreme Court's recent directive may seem innocuous, it has profound implications. It showcases a potential vulnerability in dealing with 'illegal immigrants' and the 'citizenship' debate.
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Opinion | Gen Z's Rage In Asia Is Stoked By Staggering Jobs Crisis
Youth-led protests across Asia in recent months have centered on corruption, elitism and censorship. But behind Gen-Z's anger lies something even more troubling: A staggering jobs crisis.
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Opinion | The Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact Is Not About Them, But Someone Else
This defence pact - if it does indeed exist or is to be rolled out in its entirety - is aimed at different actors in Asia: West Asia, India, China and even Russia , even while the US rakes in the money.
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Opinion | India-EU FTA: Light At The End Of A Long Tunnel?
The current bilateral and global centripetal forces seem to be pulling India and the EU together. However, the two sides have been here many times during the past two decades.
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Opinion | Why Bishnoi Gang - Now A 'Terror Entity' - Continues To Haunt India-Canada Ties
Canada continues to prioritise foreign interference and transnational repression as central to its national security agenda, even as it overlaps and at times undermines Indias concern about Khalistani separatism.
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Opinion | A Centenary Of Nation-Building: My Experience Of RSS
Several decades of my experience of the RSS have immensely enriched and profoundly shaped my being.
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Opinion | India-Pak Asia Cup Row: War, Minus The Shooting
George Orwell called sport "War Minus The Shooting" in an essay on sporting spirit, where he said that competitive sports trigger intense nationalistic rivalries and aggression. I am just wondering if that could be called "War PLUS the shooting" now.
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Opinion | The Difference Between Trump And Jaishankar At United Nations
In its conduct, the UN seems caught in the quintessential cleft stick - a dependence on world's major powers and economies for its funding but a promise to the world to be democratic and unbiased.
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Opinion | How The Congress's Manmohan Singh Library Came To Be
In death, the good Dr Manmohan Singh has restored the grand old party's link with history and books and achieved what ended abruptly way back in 1971.
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Opinion | Why India Must Think Twice Before Buying The Russian Su-57
India faces genuine gaps in fighter strength. But the answer cannot be to mortgage the future of its airpower for a platform already proven inadequate.
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Opinion | Message To India, Or Something Else? Why Trump Is Really Coddling Pakistan
Trump has reshuffled the political, security and economic cards in the subcontinent as a challenge to India's interests.
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Opinion | Should TVK Chief Vijay Be Made Accused In Karur Stampede Case?
An enormous human tragedy at Velusamypuram in Karur left 41 people dead.
