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Gen Vaidya won 2 MahaVir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Shekhar Gupta - August 15, 2026

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman

Piped gas, hydrogen train to medical seats: 11 things PM Modi said he improved after 2014

Apoorva Mandhani - August 15, 2026

‘Wars not just on borders’: Modi announces large civil defence force to counter new-age security threats

Alisha Dutta - August 15, 2026

I-Day: Modi wants India to be defence supplier to world; says focus on drones, anti-drones, hypersonics

Snehesh Alex Philip - August 15, 2026

‘33% reservation is call of the hour’—Modi urges Oppn to ‘take credit, but give women their due rights’

Neelam Pandey - August 15, 2026

‘Dimagi naxals’, youth role in Viksit Bharat & ‘Saptadhara’: PM’s I-Day speech sets out new priorities

ThePrint Team - August 15, 2026

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The Air India story: From JRD’s first flight to Tata’s latest challenge

Manya Gupta - August 15, 2026

Johnny Walker quit Bollywood because comedy was getting vulgar, says son Nasir Khan

Triya Gulati - August 15, 2026

This isn’t a new RSS. Only its vocabulary has changed for ‘New India’

Seshadri Chari - August 14, 2026

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Independence Day HIGHLIGHTS: Journey to Atmanirbhar Bharat paving way for Viksit Bharat—Modi at Red Fort

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Devendra Mahto, on hunger strike over exam irregularities, stopped from attending Tiranga Yatra

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Modi’s I-Day outreach to Gen Z & Gen Alpha: Free online coaching for competitive exams, talent hunt

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Revanth’s ‘skilled labourers’ remark on minority students sparks row, BJP, BRS slam Telangana CM

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Opinion

Public sector demands high degree of character, India yet to show it: M N Tholal

MN Tholal - August 15, 2026

The profit motive is natural, but expanding the public sector can raise costs and inflation, wrote M N Tholal in 1959.

India is a civilisational continent. Can never say I’ve seen it all: Lithuanian Ambassador

Diana Mickevičienė - August 15, 2026

First Vande Mataram, then Jana Gana Mana—Modi govt is changing India’s patriotism ritual

Stela Dey - August 15, 2026

India’s exotic pet trade has outrun the law. Actor Vikram’s gibbon video is the tip of it

Shubhra Sotie - August 14, 2026

Putin’s Kuril island visit shows why Russia’s Pacific strategy matters to India

Swasti Rao - August 14, 2026

India has more friends, more choices at 79. Real test is to turn them into power

Monish Tourangbam - August 14, 2026

The Left is still hero-worshipping Fidel Castro. No wonder it has zero states

Saptak Datta - August 14, 2026

PageTurner

How the cholera epidemic put 19th century India on the global map

Ipshita Nath - August 15, 2026

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Politics

‘33% reservation is call of the hour’—Modi urges Oppn to ‘take credit, but give women their due rights’

Neelam Pandey - August 15, 2026

In his I-Day speech, PM remarks that the political dream of women's reservation had become a victim to the 'arena of politics'.

In Rao Inderjit’s outburst at Partition event in Gurugram, an old BJP rivalry boils over

Sushil Manav - August 14, 2026

Team Priyanka’s ex-comrades, JNU alumni out in the cold as Rahul revamps Congress’ UP unit

Prashant Srivastava - August 14, 2026

RSS in the frame? Karnataka cabinet clears Bill to regulate public space use by ‘unregistered entities’

Sharan Poovanna - August 14, 2026

‘CM for a day’ Jagdambika Pal adds another record to his name. This time, for expunged remarks

Prashant Srivastava - August 13, 2026

Archana Kalpathi: Vijay’s ‘GOAT’ producer now on a temple trustee panel & in Oppn’s line of fire

Shweta Tripathi - August 13, 2026

Rahul mocks Modi’s ‘hug diplomacy’, Dikshit pulls Meloni into joke; BJP calls it ‘gutter-level’

Esha Mishra - August 13, 2026

Diplomatic Cable

India is a civilisational continent. Can never say I’ve seen it all: Lithuanian Ambassador

Diana Mickevičienė - August 15, 2026

Diana Mickevičienė, the Ambassador of Lithuania to India since 2022, writes that she got fascinated by India in childhood after seeing the movie Umrao Jaan.

Ground Reports

Johnny Walker quit Bollywood because comedy was getting vulgar, says son Nasir Khan

Triya Gulati - August 15, 2026

Delhi’s Sainik Farms and the burden of being elite

Almina Khatoon - August 14, 2026

From guns to the grind, Chhattisgarh’s surrendered Naxals are working as baristas, plumbers, tailors

Krishan Murari - August 13, 2026

6 months late, a year behind. How Jharkhand’s university students lose out before JPSC

Nootan Sharma - August 12, 2026

Books

How the cholera epidemic put 19th century India on the global map

Ipshita Nath - August 15, 2026

Vigyapanti

‘Chalta hai’ attitude isn’t harmless. Orient Electric’s Independence Day ad makes that clear

Harsh Tiwari - August 15, 2026

Features

Drake to Olivia Rodrigo—America’s summer songs change with zip codes

Nikitha Arathi Naveen - August 15, 2026

India

Piped gas, hydrogen train to medical seats: 11 things PM Modi said he improved after 2014

Apoorva Mandhani - August 15, 2026

Modi said India was once counted among the world’s ‘Fragile Five’ economies but has become a major and fast-paced economy in the last 12 years, after his govt came to power.

‘Wars not just on borders’: Modi announces large civil defence force to counter new-age security threats

Alisha Dutta - August 15, 2026

Revanth’s ‘skilled labourers’ remark on minority students sparks row, BJP, BRS slam Telangana CM

Deepika Amirapu - August 15, 2026

Modi’s I-Day outreach to Gen Z & Gen Alpha: Free online coaching for competitive exams, talent hunt

Fareeha Iftikhar - August 15, 2026

‘Dimagi naxals’, youth role in Viksit Bharat & ‘Saptadhara’: PM’s I-Day speech sets out new priorities

ThePrint Team - August 15, 2026

126 fake sites, 22,000 victims: How a gang pulled off massive scam targeting tourists booking stays online

Samridhi Tewari - August 15, 2026

Independence Day HIGHLIGHTS: Journey to Atmanirbhar Bharat paving way for Viksit Bharat—Modi at Red Fort

ThePrint Team - August 15, 2026

Go To Pakistan

Pakistan President says Durand Line was obtained in 1965. People call him uneducated

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 15, 2026

‘It's some amazing geography; the whole country's map has been changed,’ Pakistani journalist Zulkarain Iqbal wrote on X in response to Asif Ali Zardari’s speech.

Economy

Andhra’s Rs 150 cr exploration MoU for lithium, gallium as Centre pushes critical mineral self-reliance

Deepika Amirapu - August 14, 2026

How 92-yr-old Vizag Port defied global trade headwinds to net 50% of India’s seafood exports

Deepika Amirapu - August 14, 2026

Maharashtra’s Chakan is losing the plot. Its auto industry doesn’t want ‘band-aid’ solutions anymore

Purva Chitnis - August 14, 2026

China’s 32% vs India’s 3.2%: NITI Aayog earmarks 12 sectors to shore up share in global manufacturing

Udit Bubna - August 13, 2026

Greenfield, Brownfield & ‘red flags’. TVK hails, DMK questions MoUs at Vettri TN Investment Conclave

Shweta Tripathi - August 13, 2026

Governance

The long road to Gurugram’s ambitious ‘city within a city’: What is the Global City project

Sushil Manav - August 14, 2026

RSS in the frame? Karnataka cabinet clears Bill to regulate public space use by ‘unregistered entities’

Sharan Poovanna - August 14, 2026

‘Royalty itself a tax’: In mining law amendment, echo of SC judge Nagarathna’s dissent in key 2024 order

Alfreza Ahmed - August 13, 2026

Mines Bill: Why Centre wants to bar states from levying tax, cess on mineral rights, mineral-rich land

Moushumi Das Gupta - August 13, 2026

Environment

Environment is not a priority for politicians; citizens & courts must take up the cause—Justice Bhuyan

ThePrint Team - August 15, 2026

Science

Exclusive: ISRO is ready to launch its navigation satellite NVS-03 in September

NavIC, which was planned to be India’s version of the US’s GPS, Russia’s Glonass, Europe’s Galileo and China’s BeiDou, is currently dysfunctional because of ageing satellites.

Past Forward

The Air India story: From JRD’s first flight to Tata’s latest challenge

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