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Hiking capex not enough, boost oil output, expand strategic reserves faster—House panel to govt

Udit Bubna - August 7, 2026

Despite capex rising from Rs 1.33 lakh crore in 2020-21 to Rs 1.7 lakh crore in 2024-25, domestic crude output fell from 34.2 MMT in 2018-19 to 28.7 MMT in 2024-25.

Exclusive: How NTA subject experts leaked NEET-UG paper—‘questions on chits, marked NCERT paras’

Mayank Kumar - August 7, 2026

Opposing PIL, Centre urges Supreme Court to let Parliament decide ‘creamy layer’ for SC/STs

Bhadra Sinha - August 6, 2026

Protesting doesn’t make Gen Z anti-national, their grievances genuine—RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Neelam Pandey - August 6, 2026

‘Perfect victim’ myth, apology emails & abuse of dominance—HC order convicting Tarun Tejpal

Ruchi Bhattar - August 6, 2026

AI data centres do not need environment clearance, Centre tells Parliament

Soumya Pillai - August 6, 2026

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Anatomy of Jharkhand protests: 2 stages, 8 on hunger strike, a quest to be ‘non-political’

Apoorva Mandhani - August 6, 2026

13,000 Bhogapuram dancers wasn’t a spectacle. That’s political power since ancient India

Anirudh Kanisetti - August 6, 2026

Munir’s messenger & ‘one-man army’, the rise of Mohsin Naqvi in Pakistan’s ‘hybrid system’

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 6, 2026

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Nutrition table, not warning labels—food safety body FSSAI’s proposal leaves consumers to do the maths

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Blacklisted firm in eye of Jharkhand exam row never bid for contract. It was ‘nominated’, probe reveals

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Jharkhand: Protesters form 11-member team to hold talks with state over govt job exam ‘irregularities’

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SC seeks govt response on plea seeking CBI probe into ‘breach involving 1.5 lakh citizens’ medical data’

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Opinion

CJP protest is a turning point for Indian Muslims. Speak as citizens, not as a religious bloc

Ibn Khaldun Bharati - August 6, 2026

Political quietude is the ethic that befits a minority. We may call it the Minority Dharma.

Where are Modi and Shah? TV news has been busy with Prashant Kishor and Udhayanidhi

Shailaja Bajpai - August 6, 2026

13,000 Bhogapuram dancers wasn’t a spectacle. That’s political power since ancient India

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Anirudh Kanisetti - August 6, 2026

UPI was key to quick commerce boom. What the proposed tax means for industry

Nivedita Mookerji - August 6, 2026

BJP’s good times are perhaps ending. But Modi is no Indira Gandhi

Vir Sanghvi - August 6, 2026

Why Modi blinked first in the student protest

Amitabh Dubey - August 5, 2026

Operation Sindoor to Epic Fury, air power is becoming war’s opening move

AVM Prashant Mohan (Retd) - August 5, 2026

Features

‘Who gave Mumbai’s langur alcohol?’ Forest officials investigate after dramatic rescue

Gracy Narayan - August 6, 2026

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दिप्रिंट

Gen Z का वोट भारत के चुनावी भविष्य पर असर डाल सकता है, तमिलनाडु को ही देख लीजिए

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Politics

Rijiju draws parallel between Indira’s Emergency defence and protest crackdown, Congress hits back

Neelam Pandey - August 6, 2026

Kiren Rijiju cited Indira Gandhi's justification for the Emergency to defend the Modi government's response to student protests, with Congress accusing the BJP of drawing false parallels.

Protesting doesn’t make Gen Z anti-national, their grievances genuine—RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Neelam Pandey - August 6, 2026

BJP MP Raghav Chadha flags doctors’ ‘cut-money’ nexus with labs in RS, seeks crackdown on referrals

Khadija Khan - August 6, 2026

Rebel Trinamool MPs in deadly limbo as Speaker Om Birla holds back on deciding their political fate

Moushumi Das Gupta - August 6, 2026

Amid Datia bypoll setback, RSS ideologues bat for Shivraj Chouhan—‘if only BJP knew how to use him’

Neelam Pandey - August 6, 2026

AI City, laptops, hostels, branded cycles: Vijay’s first budget gives old schemes a Gen Z makeover

Shweta Tripathi - August 5, 2026

No exam outsourcing, no retd panel heads—Congress to take up agitating students’ cause with Jharkhand CM

Apoorva Mandhani - August 5, 2026

Judiciary

‘Perfect victim’ myth, apology emails & abuse of dominance—HC order convicting Tarun Tejpal

Ruchi Bhattar - August 6, 2026

The trial court’s conclusions, according to Justices Neela Gokhale and Amit S Jamsandekar, were ‘untenable and directly contrary to the evidence on record.’

Ground Reports

Ladakh’s sea buckthorn gold rush. Entrepreneurs are minting crores from ‘Sanjeevani booti’

Manisha Mondal - August 6, 2026

Late marriages, too few babies—how Sikkim is fighting a fertility crisis with IVF

Sakshi Mehra - August 5, 2026

Ladakh designers are turning Himalayan heritage into high fashion. Bollywood is now noticing

Manisha Mondal - August 4, 2026

Indian techies returning to Hyderabad from US with expired H1B. Who’s helping them find jobs?

Amrtansh Arora - August 3, 2026

Sharp Edge

BJP’s good times are perhaps ending. But Modi is no Indira Gandhi

Vir Sanghvi - August 6, 2026

Telescope

Where are Modi and Shah? TV news has been busy with Prashant Kishor and Udhayanidhi

Shailaja Bajpai - August 6, 2026

Entertainment

Netflix CEO explains why he picked Samay Raina’s India’s Got Latent even though it’s on YouTube

Harsh Tiwari - August 6, 2026

India

Hiking capex not enough, boost oil output, expand strategic reserves faster—House panel to govt

Udit Bubna - August 7, 2026

Despite capex rising from Rs 1.33 lakh crore in 2020-21 to Rs 1.7 lakh crore in 2024-25, domestic crude output fell from 34.2 MMT in 2018-19 to 28.7 MMT in 2024-25.

Exclusive: How NTA subject experts leaked NEET-UG paper—‘questions on chits, marked NCERT paras’

Mayank Kumar - August 7, 2026

Why telcos are opposing SIM blocking within 2-3 hours in digital arrests & other cyber fraud

Vrinda Tulsian - August 6, 2026

Vaishnaw sought to revisit ‘safe harbour’, concerns raised about big tech revenue model, records House panel

Vrinda Tulsian - August 6, 2026

A 10-yr-old is getting rape, death threats over her Modi video. Name & city revealed, forced to apologise

Samridhi Tewari - August 6, 2026

Blacklisted firm in eye of Jharkhand exam row never bid for contract. It was ‘nominated’, probe reveals

Mayank Kumar - August 6, 2026

New finding could reshape antibiotic resistance treatment

Gracy Narayan - August 6, 2026

Go To Pakistan

Pakistanis fuming at Asim Munir. After population control, he’ll now oversee monsoon readiness

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 6, 2026

NDMA Pakistan was created after the devastating 2010 floods. It has never functioned properly since the 18th Constitutional Amendment devolved disaster management to the provinces.

Economy

Beyond the gold coin: What Vijay govt’s maiden Tamil Nadu budget really spends on

Bidisha Bhattacharya - August 5, 2026

AI City, laptops, hostels, branded cycles: Vijay’s first budget gives old schemes a Gen Z makeover

Shweta Tripathi - August 5, 2026

Maharashtra govt makes metro push with plans to add 300 km in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur by 2029-30

Purva Chitnis - August 5, 2026

Life insurance policy surrender, withdrawal payouts jump to Rs 2.8 lakh-crore, exceed maturity benefits

Udit Bubna - August 5, 2026

Andhra’s salary & pension bills wringing coffers dry, state spends 95% of revenue on employees

Deepika Amirapu - August 4, 2026

Governance

Why telcos are opposing SIM blocking within 2-3 hours in digital arrests & other cyber fraud

Vrinda Tulsian - August 6, 2026

Vaishnaw sought to revisit ‘safe harbour’, concerns raised about big tech revenue model, records House panel

Vrinda Tulsian - August 6, 2026

Govt received 15 lakh public grievances in past 6 months, MoS Jitendra Singh tells LS

PTI - August 5, 2026

ISI faculty, Oppn MPs seek JPC scrutiny of ISI Bill; govt rebuts assault on autonomy charge

Udit Bubna - August 5, 2026

Around Town

‘Muslims have made themselves into ping-pong balls,’ Salman Khurshid says at Delhi book launch

Himanshi Aggarwal - August 6, 2026

Science

A male pied flycatcher changes his song after mating. Single females know to avoid him

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo recorded the songs of 17 male wild pied flycatchers before and after they had mated, and found that females had a preference.

StateDraft

Rains expose Mumbai’s ageing infra, poor planning. Why city’s development plans work only on paper

Purva Chitnis - August 6, 2026

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