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Opinion | The Great IIT Dream Is Cracking: Why Even Top Degree-Holders Are Unable To Find Jobs
Across several top IITs, roughly 30-40% of registered students had not found jobs by the final weeks of the 2024-25 cycle.
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Opinion | Why Akhilesh Yadav Is Suddenly Betting On Brahmins In Uttar Pradesh
Akhilesh is chasing the Brahmin vote in Uttar Pradesh. But breaking the BJP's near-total hold over it won't be easy
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Opinion | Pakistan Might Just Have Signed Itself Into A Difficult Trap With Its 'Saudi' Deal
The Saudi-Pak-Turkey agreement gives Saudi Arabia a shield. But for Pakistan, it could quickly become a strategic nightmare
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Opinion | Google Is Turning The Internet Into Its Own Prison, And Nobody Can Do Anything About It
The company that once sent us across the web now wants to keep us trapped inside its own walls.
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Opinion | Three Adversaries Become 4: Why The Saudi-Turkey-Pak Deal Is A Headache For India
With Turkey already in Islamabad's corner and Saudi Arabia now signing up to a mutual-defence pact, Pakistan's bilateral rivalry with India may now become a much wider strategic equation.
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Opinion | Pakistan's Kashmir 'Story' Is Now Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Contradictions
Pakistan spent decades internationalising the Kashmir issue. With the PoK uprising, that has come back not only to bite it, but to expose its false narratives
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Opinion | 86 Votes, 1 Warning: Is India Turning Into Collateral Damage In US' War On Russia?
Washington wants to sever Russian energy income, but India could end up paying the price for it
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Opinion | Saudi Arabia Has Money, Missiles, And America. Why Is It Still So Scared?
What the NATO-like pact essentially points to, under its modest packaging of 'Islamic brotherhood', are growing fears of the Saudi Kingdom.
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Opinion | 84 Years After Quit India Movement, The Nation We Must Still Build
The collective spirit of 1942 cannot remain locked in the past
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Opinion | 10 Years Of Losses, One Historic IPO: How China Built A $488 Billion Chip Miracle
Why India should learn from the story of CXMT, the cornerstone of China's chip success and now the most valuable company listed on the mainland.
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Opinion | Age Of The Pink Slip: India's Brutal IT Layoffs Are No Longer About Cost-Cutting
The four biggest IT firms, TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, and Wipro, removed a net 9,100 people in the April-June quarter this year. A year earlier, in the same quarter, they had added 22,622.
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Opinion | From Punjab To Karnataka, Congress Just Can't Stop Hitting Self-Goals
Congress leaders often speak as though anti-incumbency is a natural resource that will eventually flow towards them. But it doesn't.
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Opinion | From Kathmandu, With Care: Lessons For India From Nepal's Gen Z Movement
Some argue that India's situation is incomparable to that of Nepal. True, but not entirely.
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Opinion | The Story Of 'SH-15', Pakistan's New Chinese Guns, Now Along India's Borders
Pakistan has reportedly deployed nearly 250 Chinese-made SH-15 wheeled self-propelled howitzers along sectors facing India.
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Opinion | Who Controls The Conversation? Meta, Algorithmic Power And India's Democracy
India deserves clear answers. Parliament deserves full disclosure. And citizens deserve confidence that the nation's democratic conversation is being shaped by the people, not by opaque algorithms operating behind closed doors.
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Opinion | Bankipur, And Why The Most Dangerous Voter Is The One Who Thinks Again
Bankipur is like the NOIDA of Uttar Pradesh. Its voter list isn't like the rest of Bihar. Which is why one must be careful in declaring Kishor's win a phenomenon - yet. But then, there's the power of the voter...
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Opinion | Vijay's Udhayanidhi Arrest May Not Be A 'Blunder' After All
The arrest saga was Vijay borrowing a leaf from the Jayalalithaa handbook.
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Opinion | What The US-Iran Conflict Reveals About the Future of Warfare
If the current Iran conflict leaves one enduring strategic lesson, it is this: the age of total war has given way to an era of constrained, multidomain competition.
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Opinion | Prashant Kishor May Just Be Playing Two Games At Once In Bihar
The Jan Suraaj is neither a 'BJP-lite' option for disaffected upper-caste voters, nor is it an RJD alternative for Muslims. It is, in fact, both things at once, in the same seat, in the same election.
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Opinion | PoK's Dissent: A Demand For Bread, Answered With A Bullet
The difference between the two Kashmirs, seven years after the moment that is supposed to separate them, is not a difference of degree.
