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Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the BJP government in the Lok Sabha, calling the decision to link delimitation with the women’s reservation bill an “anti-national act”.
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As global conflicts intensify and security threats multiply, India’s civilian preparedness is emerging as a critical pillar of national defence.
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Washington proclaims victory in terms of the many attacks mounted against Iran, while Tehran projects resilience, insisting it has absorbed the blows without capitulating and has returned the attack in almost equal measure.
Failure to stop the war will hurt not only the region, but the entire global economy
In the many endings that I picture, my mother and Ali end up stranded on roads, separated in different cities, looking for their belongings in the rubble, or chewing some meagre bread to quell their hunger
Caught between the fear of chaos and the fear of a stronger Iran, countries in West Asia confront a war with no safe ending
War, once the defining moral crisis of American youth, no longer commands the same fire
The deep-seated love of Iranians for their land and cultural roots is what remains at stake in a war where the aggressors threaten to eradicate an entire civilisation.
The deeper question to ask is not whether India can afford welfare but what happens without it
While some economists and policymakers question the rationale of initiatives launched by political parties, labelling them as “freebies”, Dravidian parties view them as instruments of social justice
For Mamata Banerjee, schemes like Lakshmir Bhandar, Kanyashree and Rupashree have almost become euphemisms for the government over the years, but economists and rival political parties question if they are viable for the state’s financial pockets in the long run.
The radical reforms that once drove the state’s development are now replaced by populist policies and a dominant development narrative
Both the BJP and the Congress are betting heavily on direct benefit transfers to women and the poor, but questions about fiscal sustainability and whether schemes translate into genuine empowerment remain
The political landscape of Kerala is undergoing subtle but important changes. Rising unemployment and aspirational breakdown among educated youth are fuelling mental health distress and driving large-scale migration out of Kerala.
While disenchantment among Dalits and Adivasis in Kerala reflects a shift in the Left’s orientation in the state towards an aspirational middle class, the unease among Muslims underscores the dilemmas of electoral balancing
As more than 27 lakh people have their democratic rights suspended, Amit Shah’s ‘Mission Bengal’ aims to bulldoze all equations, but they may still have to fight the maths
A democratic law on transgender rights would begin by trusting the person—recognising self-identification without bureaucratic mediation
The author lost his classmate and close friend at a very young age and that loss continues to haunt him.
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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the registration of an FIR against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in connection with an alleged dual citizenship controversy.
The government, however, stressed that no loss had been caused to the state by the substandard coal imports as alleged by the opposition.
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Based on Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator, the film follows a teenage boy forced to confront death in a conflict-ridden Kashmir. As friends disappear and violence closes in, he is caught between survival and conscience.
This horror-comedy boasts all the putrid remains of early 2000s Hindi cinema that Priyadarshan recycles in vain.
For a film engineered to act as a political campaign, its inability to release becomes one too—signalling towards a brilliantly managed narrative-making machine in the hands of political leader Vijay.
In Amazon Prime’s latest period crime series, gambling is not treated as a standalone vice, but as part of a larger structure that includes politics, law enforcement and the media. It explores power and morality, but stops short of going all the way.
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