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Opinion | Why Trump And Mamdani May Not Be That Different, After All
Both Trump and Mamdani seem to be offering an emotional appeal that targets the same problem: an unaffordable America that has alienated its large majority.
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Opinion | The Reel Is Over, But The Light Remains: Remembering Dharmendra
From the moment he strode onto the silver screen in the early 1960s, a whirlwind of raw, rustic charm, Dharmendra was an instant phenomenon. He embodied the soul of a transitioning India: tough yet tender, deeply flawed yet utterly lovable.
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Opinion | AI Images To Clips, Inside China's 'Disinformation' Campaign Against India
Post Operation Sindoor, Chinese operatives used AI-generated images and video game clips, presenting them as debris to claim that Pakistans Chinese-supplied J-10s had shot down Indian Rafales. Here's why.
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Opinion | Red Fort To Kashmir: Why Turkey Keeps Coming Up In India's Terror Probes
Over the past few years, Turkey has been surfacing frequently in matters inimical to India - whether in support for Pakistan against India, or fuelling Kashmiri separatist sentiment, or peddling narratives of Muslim victimhood in India.
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Opinion | Why Calling Hasina's Trial 'Unfair' Is Missing The Point Entirely
This whole process essentially marks a departure from past eras in Bangladesh when trials-even of mass atrocity-were weak on facts, heavy on politics.
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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.
