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Bihar has many Khushboo Kumaris who score 400 but don’t get to study science. Arts their fate

A wave of ambition has swept across the girls of Danapur after Khushboo expressed her desire, refusing to be yet another girl with educational certificates in the marriage market.

Tharoor is a misfit in Rahul’s Congress. Why outspoken leaders are on margins in all parties

Shashi Tharoor’s diagnosis, prognosis and prescription for Congress' problems were all perfect. But Rahul Gandhi and his coterie in the CWC looked rather upset by it.

Why the US can devastate everyone and still emerge stronger

The US is the most irresponsible superpower the world has seen in peacetime, but trying to fight it politically and economically will end up damaging you more than Uncle Sam.

Husband-killing is a new small-town India buzz. Meerut drum, Jaipur fire, Auraiya supari

Cases of wives killing husbands have become a national obsession in recent weeks. Behind the ‘illicit’ lovers and gore, there’s another story too.

India’s courts place conditions on women’s rights—can’t drink, trust men, get married

Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh of the Allahabad High Court recently ruled that a woman who was sexually assaulted 'invited trouble' by drinking alcohol with the accused.

How Hindi became Tamil’s ‘sworn enemy’, long before the Stalin-Modi govt tussle over language

The Hindi-Tamil row has reared its head again, with CM MK Stalin accusing the Centre of imposing Hindi through its three-language policy. Tamil Nadu currently follows a two-language policy.

Brahmins, BJP, and Waqf—the story of Tamil Nadu village’s fight for land

A Waqf dispute in Tamil Nadu’s Thiruchendurai village became an example to push the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in Parliament. It’s become the stuff of Hindutva folklore.

Amit Shah’s support to Kerala village Waqf protest is shaking up state politics

When Parliament passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, cries of 'Jai Modi' and 'Jai Amit Shah' broke out in Munambam. But the protesters say they won’t stop until the law is made retrospective.

Now at steering wheel, MA Baby has to navigate the believers’ road, Pinarayi’s grip on CPI(M)

A college dropout, Baby is second Keralite to be elected general secretary of CPI(M). He was elected to SFI state committee in 1972, and nominated to its central executive committee in 1974.

Trump’s reckless policies won’t be the end of the American era or its global leadership

Leadership is not just about being a leader but also having others who are willing to be led.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.