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Amit Shah rejects ‘south losing seats’ narrative: ‘LS seats in south states will go up from 129 to 195’

Neelam Pandey - April 16, 2026

Speaking on delimitation in Lok Sabha, Amit Shah said proportion of Lok Sabha seats in southern states will increase from 23.76 per cent to 23.87 per cent after increase in size of Lok Sabha.

SC restores voting rights of Bengal electors cleared by tribunals 48 hrs before polling day

Ruchi Bhattar - April 16, 2026

Telangana caste survey: SCs & STs are 3 times more backward than general castes

Deepika Amirapu - April 16, 2026

Defence, high-level tech in focus as India-Austria sign letter of intent to cooperate on military matters

Keshav Padmanabhan - April 16, 2026

Rajma-chawal in the morning? How breakfast exposes the hidden hierarchies of Indian cities

Saman Husain - April 16, 2026

TV news was unusually sympathetic to Noida protest until Monday. Then came ‘toolkit’ talk

Shailaja Bajpai - April 16, 2026

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Opinion

The Delimitation Dilemma—What Southern politicians should be bargaining for

R Jagannathan - April 16, 2026

Instead of fighting the inevitable population shift, southern leaders should seek to integrate migrants and preserve their local influence.

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Anirudh Kanisetti - April 16, 2026

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Amit Krishankant Paul - April 16, 2026

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Amit Shah rejects ‘south losing seats’ narrative: ‘LS seats in south states will go up from 129 to 195’

Neelam Pandey - April 16, 2026

Speaking on delimitation in Lok Sabha, Amit Shah said proportion of Lok Sabha seats in southern states will increase from 23.76 per cent to 23.87 per cent after increase in size of Lok Sabha.

Congress won’t buy Modi’s delimitation ‘guarantee’, slams BJP while underlining pro-women’s quota stance

Sourav Roy Barman - April 16, 2026

TDP backs Modi govt’s delimitation push, says women’s quota law ‘awakened the power of every woman’

Esha Mishra - April 16, 2026

Haryana Congress suspends five MLAs for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha election

Sushil Manav - April 16, 2026

Modi delimitation ‘guarantee’ in LS—no ‘discrimination’, states’ seat share won’t change now or in future

Neelam Pandey - April 16, 2026

Tejasvi Surya makes case for delimitation formula. ‘South India couldn’t have got better deal’

Sharan Poovanna - April 16, 2026

‘Naari ko naara banana chahti hai BJP’: Akhilesh tears into Modi govt over women’s quota law in LS

Prashant Srivastava - April 16, 2026

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Modi-Shah explanation on delimitation is reassuring, but legitimate concerns remain

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Ground Reports

The Big Battle for transgender certificates—official apathy, confusion, red tape, bias

Sakshi Mehra - April 16, 2026

A year after Pahalgam, Lt Vinay Narwal’s death haunts family. Guilt, grief, lonely evenings

Sakshi Mehra - April 15, 2026

Bohra Muslim women are fighting against FGM anonymously—they fear community boycott

Saman Husain - April 15, 2026

Kashmiris with Pakistani MBBS degrees are desperate for jobs. ‘My father was militant, not me’

Sagrika Kissu - April 14, 2026

Books

When a mill worker’s clenched fist in a 1934 film worried British censors in colonial Bombay

Debashree Mukherjee - April 16, 2026

Judiciary

CBI challenges Kejriwal’s recusal plea submissions about RSS legal arm, judge’s son & daughter

Khadija Khan - April 16, 2026

Global Pulse

Women quota issue or ‘north-south’ debate? Global media’s eye on Modi’s ‘nari shakti’, delimitation push

Vidhi Bhutra - April 16, 2026

India

Telangana caste survey: SCs & STs are 3 times more backward than general castes

Deepika Amirapu - April 16, 2026

Backward Castes form largest chunk of southern state's population at 56.3% followed by Scheduled Castes at 17.4%, according to SEEEPC 2024 survey.

Amit Shah rejects ‘south losing seats’ narrative: ‘LS seats in south states will go up from 129 to 195’

Neelam Pandey - April 16, 2026

Minor collision between SpiceJet & Akasa Air aircraft at Delhi airport; both planes damaged, none hurt

Esha Mishra - April 16, 2026

Iran war shock could be as disruptive as Covid, Indian officials say

Shruti Srivastava - April 16, 2026

Iran war spillover: India urea tender draws near $1,000 per ton offers ahead of monsoon sowing season

Pratik Parija - April 16, 2026

Longer, messier, costlier: War in Iran cripples Indian airlines & fliers, fares spike as high as 14x

+TFP Esha Mishra - April 16, 2026

Lenskart CEO Peyush Bansal apologises. No ban on tilaks or bindis

Triya Gulati - April 16, 2026

World

After US & China, Russia praises Pakistan’s ‘effective’ role as peace broker in West Asia war

Debdutta Chakraborty - April 16, 2026

Economy

Indian LNG importers accelerate spot market purchases as prices dip

Stephen Stapczynski - April 16, 2026

Russia raking in a windfall from Hormuz blockade. Export revenues doubled to $19 bn in March, says IEA

Udit Bubna - April 15, 2026

Indian negotiating team headed to US next week for another round of trade agreement talks

Keshav Padmanabhan - April 15, 2026

Oil supply fell by 10 million barrels per day in March. IEA raises alarm over largest disruption ever

Udit Bubna - April 14, 2026

US blockade of Iran ports in Hormuz may hit China hardest, but India could feel price pain too

Udit Bubna - April 14, 2026

Governance

Amit Shah rejects ‘south losing seats’ narrative: ‘LS seats in south states will go up from 129 to 195’

Neelam Pandey - April 16, 2026

RTE hurt school learning outcomes, affecting both reading & math proficiency—NITI Aayog working paper

+TFP Vrinda Tulsian - April 16, 2026

Proportional freeze, ‘latest Census’ & 850 seats in LS—what’s in new delimitation, women’s quota Bills

Apoorva Mandhani - April 14, 2026

Needle moves on Dharavi revamp, work on 1st set of rehabilitation houses to be begin post monsoon

Manasi Phadke - April 14, 2026

Entertainment

Scrubs is back! Millennial nostalgia drives TV’s reboot boom in America

Sarah Rappaport - April 16, 2026

Science

India is racing to decode its ancient manuscripts & medical texts. AI is helping—but only so far

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From OCR data extraction to language models, technology is unlocking access, with Gyan Bharatam Mission prioritising digitisation—but interpretation remains a deeply human challenge.

PoV

Sorry, sprinters! It’s midfield generals who are running the show this Champions League

Saptak Datta - April 16, 2026

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