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Bangladesh isn’t a mirror image of Pakistan. Hyphenating them undermines India’s strategic interests

Shekhar Gupta - September 19, 2026

India is caught in a trap of its own making. While BJP may find it convenient to play on insecurities, it gives Pakistan and Bangladesh leverage.

Whose Jaipur House is it anyway? VVIP Agra locality at stake, a UP vs Rajasthan saga

+TFP Amir Qureshi - September 19, 2026

EAC-PM flags fertility paradox: States pushing for more children while incentivising sterilisations

Udit Bubna - September 19, 2026

Tiruppur’s success runs on cheap cotton. India needs to ask who pays for it

Bidisha Bhattacharya - September 19, 2026

Ranthambore’s ageing male tiger Jai is fighting a brutal battle for space

+TFP Saptak Datta - September 19, 2026

UP Congress’ new media head is RSS-trained. Meeting with Rahul changed Kunwar Singh Nishad’s fortunes

Prashant Srivastava - September 19, 2026

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Ranthambore’s ageing male tiger Jai is fighting a brutal battle for space

Saptak Datta - September 19, 2026

Whose Jaipur House is it anyway? VVIP Agra locality at stake, a UP vs Rajasthan saga

Amir Qureshi - September 19, 2026

China’s new spy satellite watches every satellite from mother-of-all orbit—GSAT, NavIC, Starlink

Soumya Pillai - September 18, 2026

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Trump extends $100,000 fee for H-1B non-immigrant visas for another year

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‘Dream come true’—Trump hails deal with Denmark allowing greater US military presence in Greenland

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Why DMK is trying to forge a third front

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Why Telangana police arrested Nagularapu Prasad a day before launch of his 730-page book on Ambedkar

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Opinion

Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy prevented Indian agriculture from growing: Bhanu Pratap Singh

Bhanu Singh - September 19, 2026

It is surprising that no one in the Planning Commission has yet quantified the capital requirement for the modernisation of our agriculture, wrote Bhanu Pratap Singh in 1986.

Muslim personal law is in conflict with POCSO. It needs reform

Amana Begam - September 18, 2026

From Shah Bano to Waqf—how Muslim politics has produced just intermediaries, not intellectuals

Ibn Khaldun Bharati - September 18, 2026

How Saudi Arabia was dragged back into a Yemen war it spent years trying to leave

Swasti Rao - September 18, 2026

Governance is changing. Why elected leaders must keep learning

Shaina NC - September 18, 2026

Drug menace is a shared threat for Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka—and a new opportunity

Milinda Moragoda - September 17, 2026

India can simultaneously have a record number of EPFO enrolments and a genuine jobs crisis

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Piyush Zaware - September 17, 2026

Features

India’s heat hotspots are spreading. Northwest is worst-hit, IMD study finds

Soumya Pillai - September 19, 2026

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UP Congress’ new media head is RSS-trained. Meeting with Rahul changed Kunwar Singh Nishad’s fortunes

Prashant Srivastava - September 19, 2026

Nishad says he wants to contest an election from Mathura in the future. Rahul Gandhi’s emphasis on social justice will reflect in allocation of election tickets, he adds.

Why DMK is trying to forge a third front

Shweta Tripathi - September 19, 2026

BJP MLA-linked firm backs out of land dispute with PM Modi’s schoolmate. But it’s not over yet

Purva Chitnis - September 18, 2026

Didi’s faction becomes ‘Mamata AITC’ with football player symbol. Rebels now ‘Democratic Trinamool’

Apoorva Mandhani - September 18, 2026

ECI freezes Trinamool Congress name, symbol in interim order ahead of assembly bypolls

Apoorva Mandhani - September 17, 2026

Revanth vs KCR: BRS goes on offensive, lashes out at Telangana CM over land ownership allegations

Deepika Amirapu - September 17, 2026

‘Meri Degree Ka Kya’: Congress marks Modi’s birthday with an ultimatum & pan-India campaign

Esha Mishra - September 17, 2026

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Odisha rejects convict Dara Singh’s remission plea. No leniency for religious violence

ThePrint Team - September 18, 2026

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Ground Reports

Ranthambore’s ageing male tiger Jai is fighting a brutal battle for space

Saptak Datta - September 19, 2026

Home owners living next to protected monuments can’t build, extend. Files at NMA pile up

Krishan Murari - September 18, 2026

Less ‘Jai Shri Ram’, more Fire NOCs—Satya Niketan tragedy has rewritten DUSU campaign

Himanshi Aggarwal - September 17, 2026

Nepali media put facts over spectacle in flood coverage. Learned what not to do from India

Akanksha Mishra - September 16, 2026

Diplomatic Cable

I started liking paneer in India. Shahi paneer is my favourite now: Polish Ambassador

Piotr Switalski - September 19, 2026

PoV

The great Indian Tatkal race. You have better chances of winning KBC

Harsh Tiwari - September 19, 2026

Judiciary

Eight years on, mental health law still ‘empty formality’ in Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh—HC

Sushil Manav - September 19, 2026

India

Karnataka cabinet approves Rs 1,300-cr data centre policy, PLI-centred Blue Bioeconomy roadmap

Sharan Poovanna - September 19, 2026

Under data centre policy, Karnataka is targeting 10-12% of India’s AI-ready Data Centre capacity by 2031. Govt has set aside Rs 120 cr for 5-yr period for Blue Biotechnology policy.