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Ukraine seeks immediate release & access to 6 nationals arrested in India on terror conspiracy charges

Keshav Padmanabhan - March 17, 2026

Six Ukrainians and one American citizen were detained by NIA last week, and have been booked under UAPA on the charge of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks against India.

Armed Forces Tribunal puts Lt Col Purohit’s retirement on hold. ‘Malegaon probe deprived me of promotion’

Bhadra Sinha - March 17, 2026

Cross-voting nearly cost Congress Haryana Rajya Sabha seat. Now its state president has quit

Sushil Manav - March 17, 2026

UP ATS says arrested dental student recruited people for ISIS, incited them to carry out fidayeen attacks

Mayank Kumar - March 17, 2026

India’s NavIC is not fully functional even after 27 years—military loses the most

Soumya Pillai - March 17, 2026

Supreme Court’s NCERT textbook order punishes the messenger, doesn’t answer the message

Shankar Sharan - March 17, 2026

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When did the Aryans enter the subcontinent? Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute is tracing DNA

Akanksha Mishra - March 17, 2026

Badshah’s men say India doesn’t get the hip-hop game. Truth is, misogyny is their normal

Karanjeet Kaur - March 17, 2026

10 months, 5 hearings: Official Secrets Act case against YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra still stuck at pre-trial

Mayank Kumar - March 17, 2026

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25% hutments yet to submit survey documents, Dharavi revamp body gives them 15-day ultimatum

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‘Not flesh, but my own’: SC says adoptive mothers entitled to maternity leave irrespective of kid’s age

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Private universities filed 32x more patents than govt universities. Actual grants tell a different story

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Congress 1st Kerala list out, but suspense lingers over Kannur & Konni, seats eyed by heavyweights

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Opinion

What are Arab-American comics saying about the Iran-Israel-US war

Stela Dey - March 17, 2026

More and more of us want to hear what the Middle Eastern comics are saying. They are translating the war for the world.

Modi’s three Iran blunders lead to one question—where’s strategic autonomy?

Amitabh Dubey - March 17, 2026

Supreme Court’s NCERT textbook order punishes the messenger, doesn’t answer the message

Shankar Sharan - March 17, 2026

Zohran Mamdani’s shaky politics has come home to bite

Debdutta Chakraborty - March 17, 2026

Now is India’s chance to reform its electricity system—utilise the energy crisis

Renuka Sane - March 17, 2026

India-Europe ties can stabilise the chaotic international order

Shishir Priyadarshi - March 17, 2026

Badshah’s men say India doesn’t get the hip-hop game. Truth is, misogyny is their normal

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Karanjeet Kaur - March 17, 2026

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Free after 6 months, Sonam Wangchuk says, ‘Everyone should go to jail at least once’

Manisha Mondal - March 17, 2026

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Congress 1st Kerala list out, but suspense lingers over Kannur & Konni, seats eyed by heavyweights

Aneesa PA - March 17, 2026

Kerala will go to polls to elect 140 members of the state assembly in early April. V.D. Satheesan and Sunny Joseph to defend their seats.

Cross-voting nearly cost Congress Haryana Rajya Sabha seat. Now its state president has quit

Sushil Manav - March 17, 2026

Time for India to rise as third force for peace in West Asia conflict, says Shashi Tharoor

Neelam Pandey - March 17, 2026

Day after Nitish’s Rajya Sabha win, his ‘comrade for half a century’ KC Tyagi quits JD(U)

Neelam Pandey - March 17, 2026

‘Traitors’: Congress expels 3 Odisha MLAs for ‘cross-voting’ in Rajya Sabha polls

Sourav Roy Barman - March 17, 2026

In voting math for Haryana RS seats, near-misses for BJP & hard truths for Congress—despite win for both

Sushil Manav - March 17, 2026

Uddhav Sena goes its own way on Maharashtra Bill seeking to curb ‘unlawful’ conversions

Purva Chitnis - March 17, 2026

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Pakistan’s blatant attack on the Afghan hospital exposes a pattern of reckless militarism

ThePrint Team - March 17, 2026

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Ground Reports

When did the Aryans enter the subcontinent? Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute is tracing DNA

Akanksha Mishra - March 17, 2026

Punjab gangsters are shooting village sarpanches now. Moving on from NRIs and pop stars

Sakshi Mehra - March 16, 2026

‘Krishna played cricket first’— Sanatan Premier League gives the game a Hindu makeover

Triya Gulati - March 15, 2026

A Delhi couple keeps climbing Ghazipur landfill to feed 400 dogs. Chicken, rice & dahi

Manisha Mondal - March 14, 2026

Diplomacy

Ukraine seeks immediate release & access to 6 nationals arrested in India on terror conspiracy charges

Keshav Padmanabhan - March 17, 2026

PoV

Priyanka Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan don’t owe us their political opinion

Stela Dey - March 17, 2026

Economix

De-dollarisation is just fashionable debate. Every global crisis sends world back to dollar

Bidisha Bhattacharya - March 17, 2026

India

Gaddafi’s prisoner to Venezuela ‘covert’ ops, US national in NIA custody an ‘adventurer’ without pause

Mayank Kumar - March 17, 2026

Matthew VanDyke is among seven foreigners held on charges of crossing over to Myanmar to train Myanmar-based Ethnic Armed Groups.

The Myanmar ‘plot’: 6 Ukrainians, 1 American arrested for ‘aiding insurgents, direct link to terrorists’

Mayank Kumar - March 17, 2026

‘Chalana mat bhai’—Delhi man making his debut Instagram reel shoots himself in the chest

Vitasta Kaul - March 17, 2026

UP ATS says arrested dental student recruited people for ISIS, incited them to carry out fidayeen attacks

Mayank Kumar - March 17, 2026

25% hutments yet to submit survey documents, Dharavi revamp body gives them 15-day ultimatum

Manasi Phadke - March 17, 2026

Nishikant-led House panel flags ‘regulatory gaps’ in online media & OTT, calls for more PIB fact-checks

Vrinda Tulsian - March 17, 2026

Private universities filed 32x more patents than govt universities. Actual grants tell a different story

Vrinda Tulsian - March 17, 2026

Global Pulse

Crematoriums to universities, South Asia reels amid a war fought far away. And a BRICS reality check

Vidhi Bhutra - March 17, 2026

Economy

Use LPG judiciously, consider alternatives wherever possible—Govt amid supply crunch & shipping delays

Udit Bubna - March 17, 2026

India growth seen slowing as Iran conflict shows no sign of easing

Anup Roy - March 17, 2026

UAE’s Fujairah oil hub suspends loadings as war-related halts mount

Anthony DiPaola - March 17, 2026

Insuring vessels sailing through Hormuz now costs five times what it did in early days of Iran war

Alex Longley - March 17, 2026

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

Udit Bubna - March 16, 2026

Governance

Punjab ‘inflating’ numbers of households with tap water access, groundwater very contaminated—CAG report

Chitleen K Sethi - March 17, 2026

As UIDAI’s budget falls to a fourth of funds sought, House panel asks it to publish utilisation reports

Vrinda Tulsian - March 17, 2026

MeitY failed to convince finance ministry for funds for key tech initiatives, says parliamentary panel

Vrinda Tulsian - March 17, 2026

Mann govt gets a CAG reality check on 4th anniversary—economic growth cannot offset debt trap

Chitleen K Sethi - March 16, 2026

World

Taliban calls Kabul hospital strike ‘crime against humanity’, Pakistan says it only hit ‘military infra’

Keshav Padmanabhan - March 17, 2026

Science

India’s NavIC is not fully functional even after 27 years—military loses the most

Last week, ISRO confirmed that the atomic clock on board the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System-1F—the first generation of the NavIC satellites—had stopped functioning.

Health

Why new guidelines in US recommend screening for ‘bad cholesterol’ as early as ages 9-11

Sneha Richhariya - March 17, 2026

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