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Since Indira, govts drift in the 3rd year. Modi must restore EC image to get out of it

Shekhar Gupta - September 26, 2026

Gyanesh Kumar has now become the second most unforgettable among our 26 CECs. He obviously didn’t seek this ‘fame’. But he can’t shake it off.

ECINet to be reviewed, letter to Cabinet Secy was not related to policy matters, says ECI

Apoorva Mandhani - September 26, 2026

INDIA bloc parties to meet on 30 Sep to discuss demand for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s removal, SIR issue

Esha Mishra - September 26, 2026

At Asian Games in Japan, women step into the ring as referees in men’s boxing. It’s not a first

Pakhi Khare - September 26, 2026

Pakistani cleric awarded for religious harmony has family links to a ‘blasphemy gang’

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 26, 2026

Universities, ICU norms, illegal buildings: Inside SC judge Amanullah’s interventionist approach

Ruchi Bhattar - September 26, 2026

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J&K’s first kho kho world champion still awaits Rs 40K. ‘Is it because I’m a Muslim woman?’

Triya Gulati - September 26, 2026

Shehbaz to address UNGA. How Pakistan used forum to rake up Kashmir, from Zulfikar to Nawaz, Imran

Bantirani Patro - September 25, 2026

Gen Zs of Noida protest: Exams missed, jobs lost, 5 months gone in jail as kin struggle with legal fees

Alisha Dutta - September 25, 2026

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French Air and Space Force in Jodhpur for IAF’s Tarang Shakti exercise

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Badminton at Asian Games 2026: PV Sindhu, Ayush Shetty enter pre-quarters; Lakshya Sen crashes out

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India beats Iran 40-34 to win men’s kabaddi gold at Asian Games 2026 after second-half comeback

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Ram temple donation theft: Questions mount over bank staff, trust officials’ exclusion from chargesheet

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Opinion

From Tilak’s public festival to green celebrations, Ganeshotsav keeps evolving

Shrikant Shinde - September 25, 2026

Ganeshotsav has grown from a public celebration into a global festival, while its traditions of community, seva and devotion continue to find new expression.

The Gyanesh Kumar controversy & Modi govt: When things go wrong the crises keep coming

Vir Sanghvi - September 25, 2026

Why the Trump-Xi summit just produced a truce, not a breakthrough

Swasti Rao - September 25, 2026

From Aadhaar to UPI: how India’s digital rails can include, not exclude, older adults

Sohini Paul - September 25, 2026

The war at the bottom of the sea is here. UK uncrewed vessel Excalibur shows its future

Swasti Rao - September 25, 2026

IIT Bombay tragedy shows how India’s shaming culture makes failure harder to bear

Amana Begam - September 25, 2026

UPI’s real value isn’t MDR revenue. It is the economy it makes visible

Seshadri Chari - September 25, 2026

Features

Sudhir Patwardhan’s archive of ordinary lives — a tired mother, a pair of eyes, a cup of tea

Sakshi Mehra - September 26, 2026

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कभी 21 लोकसभा सीटें, अब शून्य: मायावती की BSP के सामने अस्तित्व का संकट

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Politics

INDIA bloc parties to meet on 30 Sep to discuss demand for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s removal, SIR issue

Esha Mishra - September 26, 2026

Meeting has been called amid fresh escalation in Oppn's attack on Kumar following Indian Express report on differences among the 3 ECs over SIR exercise.

VanDyke on a plane home, Congress hits out at PM Modi, asks if his govt buckled under US pressure

Esha Mishra - September 25, 2026

All-woman SIT to probe POCSO case against granite baron Veeramani. HC warns media houses over videos

Shweta Tripathi - September 25, 2026

Chaudhary Devi Lal’s legacy endures in Haryana even as his political empire crumbles

Sushil Manav - September 25, 2026

Long game: How Naidu is moving from pixels to pipes to recast CEO-CM image to reshape TDP’s rural appeal

Deepika Amirapu - September 25, 2026

Deendayal Upadhyaya’s 110th birth anniversary: How his ‘Integral Humanism’ shaped Modi’s governance

+TFP Apoorva Mandhani - September 25, 2026

Notional party? Mayawati’s once-powerful BSP teeters on the brink of irrelevance

+TFP Prashant Srivastava - September 25, 2026

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Sonam Wangchuk’s comparison of Ladakh with Tibet is deeply flawed and callous

ThePrint Team - September 25, 2026

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Ground Reports

J&K’s first kho kho world champion still awaits Rs 40K. ‘Is it because I’m a Muslim woman?’

Triya Gulati - September 26, 2026

Exclusive: Inside Haryanvi gangster groom’s wedding with Cambodian girlfriend

Sakshi Mehra - September 25, 2026

Kannada classes are taking off in Bengaluru. Migrants are lining up now

Vitasta Kaul - September 24, 2026

Why is Ahmedabad’s 134-year-old Ellis Bridge repair stuck? Many deadlines missed

Nootan Sharma - September 23, 2026

News Maker of the Week

Walkouts, threats, memes—why the UNGA now feels more like theatre than diplomacy

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 26, 2026

Letter from Pakistan

In Pakistan, every PM and army chief are jodi No.1 — until they aren’t

Naila Inayat - September 26, 2026

PoV

Bollywood will name-drop Bicycle Thieves and David Fincher. We’ll rarely see a trace on screen

Harsh Tiwari - September 26, 2026

India

ECINet to be reviewed, letter to Cabinet Secy was not related to policy matters, says ECI

Apoorva Mandhani - September 26, 2026

ECI issues fresh statement after a meeting of all 3 ECs to announce several important decisions & reiterate that SIR decisions were taken unanimously. Meeting follows Indian Express report.

Valley of Words announces third edition of South Asian Festival of Arts and Literature

ThePrint Team - September 26, 2026

Ram temple donation theft: Questions mount over bank staff, trust officials’ exclusion from chargesheet

Prashant Srivastava - September 26, 2026

US visa curbs creating uncertainty but University of Virginia applications have risen 25%—Vice Provost

Fareeha Iftikhar - September 26, 2026

Central Tibetan Administration slams Wangchuk for comparing Ladakh to Tibet. He reacts with a video

Samridhi Tewari - September 25, 2026

American VanDyke, arrested by NIA in Myanmar training camp case, flies home day after Tihar release

Mayank Kumar - September 25, 2026

Four Nagas killed in Kamjong amid fresh Manipur violence, AFSPA extended for six months

Alisha Dutta - September 25, 2026

Around Town

A shrunken lake, a restored madrasa — only ruins of medieval Hauz Khas remain

Maryam Hassan - September 26, 2026

Historians Sudeshna Guha and Amar Farooqui led a field visit to Firoz Shah Tughlaq’s fourteenth-century madrasa, to recreate a medieval Hauz Khas.

Economy

Govt, OMCs, consumers may have to share oil price burden again if energy shock persists, says CEA

Udit Bubna - September 25, 2026

India can’t depend on foreign supply chains, must create jobs within manufacturing, says CEA Nageswaran

Udit Bubna - September 25, 2026

NSE regains market shares, bourse head says ‘regulatory tightening in derivatives largely over’

Savio Shetty - September 25, 2026

India posts strongest growth outlook even as business environment ranking weakens—WEF economist survey

Jeyasri AT - September 25, 2026

India’s green hydrogen push could attract Rs 10 lakh cr investment by 2030—Hydrogen mission director

Udit Bubna - September 24, 2026

Governance

Four Nagas killed in Kamjong amid fresh Manipur violence, AFSPA extended for six months

Alisha Dutta - September 25, 2026

AP cabinet clears new social media policy to rope in content creators to publicise govt schemes

Deepika Amirapu - September 25, 2026

‘Wiping farmers’ tears is govt’s duty’—Fadnavis visits Maharashtra’s drought-hit zone, promises relief

Purva Chitnis - September 24, 2026

Boost to MSMEs: Haryana’s new business law seeks to end months-long clearance waits with 15-day rule

Sushil Manav - September 22, 2026

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Pakistani cleric awarded for religious harmony has family links to a ‘blasphemy gang’

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 26, 2026

Science

Traffic jam in space, with a chance of collisions. European Space Agency’s warning

The European Space Agency highlighted that countries will need to focus on active debris removal to ensure that the growth in orbital objects do not lead to collisions in the future.

Viral Spiral

Politics has gone to the fat dogs in Delhi — ‘Aayega toh Kutta Singh hi’

Himanshi Aggarwal - September 26, 2026

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