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

Apoorva Mandhani - September 18, 2026

Decision comes less than 20 days before the bye-elections in West Bengal’s Rejinagar and Nandigram constituencies, and Assam’s Nagaon constituency.

4 school dropouts including 3 minors apprehended after Delhi teen raped, decaying body found in field

Mayank Kumar - September 18, 2026

Myanmar training camp case: US national VanDyke to walk out on bail after 6 months in Tihar

Mayank Kumar - September 18, 2026

After 37 years, Sena Medal gallantry awardees get AC train travel benefit

Snehesh Alex Philip - September 18, 2026

Indian-origin man who scammed Taylor Swift’s husband with $35 mn ponzi scheme splurged on jets & hotels

Samridhi Tewari - September 18, 2026

Why Odisha rejected Graham Staines’ killer Dara Singh’s premature release plea after years of delay

Aditya Edara - September 18, 2026

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

Himanshi Aggarwal - September 17, 2026

Desperate Indians want Batman to take charge. We have reached that stage

Vir Sanghvi - September 17, 2026

How a 17th-century Yemeni ‘sorcerer’ anticipated the modern playbook of the Houthis

Praveen Swami - September 16, 2026

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Surendra Koli, acquitted by Supreme Court in Nithari serial killings, found dead in Haridwar

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Punjab police ASI shot dead in Amritsar

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Opinion

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

Amana Begam - September 18, 2026

Our interpretation of religious rules can recognise the new realities without treating every attempt at reform as an attack on religion.

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

Ibn Khaldun Bharati - September 18, 2026

India aced the BRICS Summit. The harder part begins now

Seshadri Chari - 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

Lust Stories 3 is pandering to the ‘female gaze’. Take notes, Bollywood

Triya Gulati - September 17, 2026

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

Milinda Moragoda - September 17, 2026

Features

Dot.com to Donald Trump—Elon Musk documentary can get released outside North America

Tarini Unnikrishnan - September 18, 2026

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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

Seven Eleven Construction, in which BJP's Mira Bhayandar MLA Narendra Mehta has shares, cancelled the deal a week after PM Modi's schoolmate met him & sought his intervention.

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

‘Will make you IAS officer’: SP office-bearer booked in Mathura over inappropriate texts to bank employee

Prashant Srivastava - September 17, 2026

Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal targets CM Bhagwant Mann’s wife as Punjab polls near

Chitleen K Sethi - September 17, 2026

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Stuffing puppies in sacks is not a protest, Nashik stunt is cheap gimmickry

ThePrint Team - September 17, 2026

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Ground Reports

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

Leopards vs all—Mangar Bani is facing animal-animal conflict, villagers are stuck in between

Janaki Pande - September 16, 2026

Around Town

MF Husain, Picasso eating Rajasthani food. Turning the city of palaces into art lovers

Krishan Murari - September 18, 2026

Diplomacy

Amid stabilising ties, MEA flags India’s trade deficit with China in latest annual report

Keshav Padmanabhan - September 18, 2026

Judiciary

Why Odisha rejected Graham Staines’ killer Dara Singh’s premature release plea after years of delay

Aditya Edara - September 18, 2026

India

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

Seven Eleven Construction, in which BJP's Mira Bhayandar MLA Narendra Mehta has shares, cancelled the deal a week after PM Modi's schoolmate met him & sought his intervention.