A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.
Indian Army’s search for a new rifle, away from Chambal
As a team of nine officers from the Indian Army gets set for globe-trotting in search of a rifle, Sujan Dutta writes about how a high-tech one is made in Chambal.
IAS officer facing probe says opportunity to start debate on primitive rules
IAS officer Shah Faesal, who is facing a departmental inquiry for a remark on rampant rapes in south Asia on Twitter, tells Mahrukh Inayet and Sanya Dhingra that this inquiry is “an opportunity to reopen the debate around primitive service rules for government employees”.
Democratic forces are fighting back in Pakistan, but there aren’t enough liberals
In his column ‘Factivist’, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta writes that India’s democracy may not be perfect, but it is nowhere close to the mess in Pakistan, which is fully in the grip of the army & judiciary, with liberal voices in a minority.
Tide turning for CPI(M) in Kerala
Feeling the political heat in Kerala where the BJP is slowly establishing a base, the atheist Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to back events organised by a group of Sanksrit scholars and cultural outfits during the Ramayana month, Ruhi Tewari reports.
Will Islamic clerics change their position on homosexuality?
Questions on homosexuality are often posed to those who support RSS, but they are not posed often enough to Islamists and their apologists, writes Raghav Awasthi.