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The perfect bomb: Red Fort terror module toyed with sugar & fertilisers, then they made ‘Mother of Satan’

Mayank Kumar - September 11, 2026

According to NIA, members of the module initially experimented with NPK-based fertiliser & organic items to produce explosives, but they abandoned the idea after about a year.

Secunderabad military arms theft: ‘Prime suspect’ ex-army officer held, stolen weapons recovered

Mayank Kumar - September 11, 2026

BRICS Summit 2026 LIVE UPDATES: Iran’s Pezeshkian in Delhi, to hold bilateral meet with Modi today

ThePrint Team - September 11, 2026

HC rejects plea for exemption from WFI circular, Vinesh Phogat to miss Senior World Championship trials

Ruchi Bhattar - September 11, 2026

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 11, 2026

The last ordinary news day before 9/11

Sagrika Kissu - September 11, 2026

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Malayalam cinema never had it so good. Big box office hits, OTT global reach

Triya Gulati - September 11, 2026

From Jhuggi Jhopri Colony to cramped urban maze: How Satya Niketan grew into a disaster zone

Alisha Dutta - September 10, 2026

London’s viral ‘flying Kavadi’ video draws eyes to ancient Tamil temple tradition thriving beyond borders

Shweta Tripathi - September 10, 2026

Latest

Kim Jong Un wants North Koreans to have more (state-sanctioned) fun

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EAM Jaishankar pitches stronger BRICS trade ties, resilient supply chains ahead of summit

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‘Foreign policy in shambles’: Priyank Kharge hits out at Centre ahead of BRICS Summit

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‘Tragedy is he was attacked because of where he came from,’ says Rahul at memorial for Manipuri musician

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Opinion

Viksit Bharat cannot be built on crumbling buildings. We need to plan our cities better

Seshadri Chari - September 11, 2026

Some of the finest cities across the world have regular structural audits of buildings and a foolproof administrative system. There is no reason why Indian cities should not have such strict regulations.

25 years after 9/11, we are still stuck with blaming and defending an entire religion

Amana Begam - September 11, 2026

Bengalis helped build Shillong. Yet we are still treated as outsiders & attacked

Tomojit Bhattacharjee - September 11, 2026

India’s real objective should be to make BRICS ineffective

Rajesh Rajagopalan - September 11, 2026

India’s GDP debate is full of noise. Here are the facts

TCA Anant - September 11, 2026

India says the Indus Waters Treaty is in abeyance. Here’s the legal case for it

Amit Krishankant Paul - September 11, 2026

India gets ‘A’ rating from Japan Credit Rating agency. Will West follow?

Ashwani Mahajan - September 11, 2026

Features

London has a new Lady in Blue statue. She is a Black woman & the city’s spirit

Almina Khatoon - September 11, 2026

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Politics

Vijay govt’s plan for new secretariat in Pattinapakkam faces resistance from fisherfolk, residents

Shweta Tripathi - September 11, 2026

Pattinapakkam is a crowded stretch along the coast off south Chennai that combines residential colonies, schools and traditional fishing settlements along the coast.

High enthusiasm, big long-term goals, some setbacks: DK Shivakumar’s first 100 days as Karnataka CM

Sharan Poovanna - September 11, 2026

‘Tragedy is he was attacked because of where he came from,’ says Rahul at memorial for Manipuri musician

Esha Mishra - September 10, 2026

Mayawati expels nephew Akash Anand, says he ‘chose father-in-law over BSP, didn’t re-post on X’

Prashant Srivastava - September 10, 2026

‘Our festival is inclusive’: Amruta Fadnavis opposes VHP call to ban Muslims from Navratri events

Purva Chitnis - September 10, 2026

Why Congress appointed Telangana leader Madhu Goud Yaskhi as AIPC chief, replacing Praveen Chakravarty

Esha Mishra - September 10, 2026

Karnataka set to hold student elections after 37 years. Why they were banned in the first place

Sharan Poovanna - September 10, 2026

Around Town

What Ismat Chughtai and Premchand taught Urdu writers about change

Sakshi Mehra - September 10, 2026

At a literary baithak in Old Delhi, Rakhshanda Jalil revisited Ismat Chughtai, Premchand and Angare to ask what separates writing that documents injustice from literature that imagines change.

Ground Reports

Malayalam cinema never had it so good. Big box office hits, OTT global reach

Triya Gulati - September 11, 2026

Haryana sanitation workers have been on strike for weeks over job security. Trash piles up

Sakshi Mehra - September 10, 2026

MCD’s unsafe buildings list for Delhi. Declared dangerous, still in use

Saman Husain - September 9, 2026

Road to Nepal’s Rasuwa is gone. Families taking broken mountain paths to look for the missing

Akanksha Mishra - September 9, 2026

Go To Pakistan

Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s daughter to tie the knot. Pakistanis fear they’ll foot the bill

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 11, 2026

Tele-scope

Indian news headlines are on BRICS summit and the bricks falling over the future of students

Shailaja Bajpai - September 10, 2026

Entertainment

Actor Gillian Anderson is pansexual. She wasn’t as sure 2 years back

Tarini Unnikrishnan - September 11, 2026

India

The perfect bomb: Red Fort terror module toyed with sugar & fertilisers, then they made ‘Mother of Satan’

Mayank Kumar - September 11, 2026

According to NIA, members of the module initially experimented with NPK-based fertiliser & organic items to produce explosives, but they abandoned the idea after about a year.

Secunderabad military arms theft: ‘Prime suspect’ ex-army officer held, stolen weapons recovered

Mayank Kumar - September 11, 2026

Vijay govt’s plan for new secretariat in Pattinapakkam faces resistance from fisherfolk, residents

Shweta Tripathi - September 11, 2026

Mumbai cops hunt for cat killer after 20 felines found ‘strangled, mutilated, stabbed’ in Govandi

Samridhi Tewari - September 10, 2026

Red Fort blast: Suicide bomber wasn’t using urine bags just to stay hidden, NIA makes explosive connection

Mayank Kumar - September 10, 2026

Axis Bank’s AI Push Signals Slower Hiring Ahead for India Firm

Haslinda Amin - September 10, 2026

Jharkhand paper leak ‘mastermind’ funded 5-star hotel stay of exam firm’s directors—CID flags ‘close ties’

Mayank Kumar - September 10, 2026

50-Word Edit

Trump’s ‘Mr Singh’ ad was racist and a terrible message to Indian Americans

ThePrint Team - September 11, 2026

Trump administration’s Transformers-style ad was downright racist and offensive. It’s a good thing the poster telling “Mr Singh” he can’t drive and should self-deport...

Economy

A new PRICE-Tata report proves India’s big 6 cities aren’t where the real money is

Bidisha Bhattacharya - September 11, 2026

AI may boost US economy by 2030 but cut 1 in 5 white-collar jobs, Anthropic’s research arm finds

Vrinda Tulsian - September 11, 2026

India’s key money market gets unusually quiet at the start of trade

Bhaskar Dutta - September 4, 2026

India’s GDP data, new methodology & the arguments: CEA V Anantha Nageswaran on CutTheClutter

Shekhar Gupta | Cut The Clutter - September 4, 2026

HDFC Bank is at risk of losing its top Nifty spot to rival ICICI

Ashutosh Joshi - September 3, 2026

Governance

Vijay govt’s plan for new secretariat in Pattinapakkam faces resistance from fisherfolk, residents

Shweta Tripathi - September 11, 2026

For CM’s orders, Haryana officials instructed to ditch ‘Dekh Len’ for action-oriented approach

Sushil Manav - September 9, 2026

Why Telangana’s CURE Bill for Greater Hyderabad faces pushback from citizens and real estate developers

Deepika Amirapu - September 9, 2026

Haryana reshuffles 26 IAS, HCS officers; town planning, urban local bodies depts change hands

Sushil Manav - September 8, 2026

Past Forward

Indira Gandhi, Zail Singh and a fire in Mohali—the story of India’s chip dream that almost was

+TFP Manya Gupta - September 10, 2026

Science

What is cryospheric glue? A mix of ice, soil, sediment that holds mountains together

When land remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years, a permafrost forms, and cryospheric glue seeps into the pores and cracks between soil or rocks.

Environment

Orangutans are listening to Indian classical music in Odisha zoo. It’s a de-stresser, says official

Janaki Pande - September 10, 2026

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