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Shujaat Bukhari took on Nawaz Sharif over Pakistan luring Kashmiri youth to take up arms

 After Hazratbal siege, Shujaat Bukhari predicted that militants had tasted blood and would become more powerful and get support in Kashmir.

The tiny ad that will stop IAS officers from believing they are superior human beings

The opening up of the civil service to qualified outsiders has brought down one of India's stoutest walls.

By prohibiting marijuana, India is giving free run to illegal drug cartels: Shashi Tharoor

We should establish a government-run medical cannabis programme so that this drug can be prescribed to, and used by, patients in need.

As world celebrates the Cup, a young football team from Kashmir dares to dream big

Out of the troubled soul of the Valley, a local Muslim partnered with his Hindu friend to raise Real Kashmir Football Club

Narendra Modi rocks. Sometimes, literally on a rock

To see netas huffing and puffing and twisting themselves into anything other than unlikely coalitions is disturbing.

Modi assassination plot: Threats to leaders boost their image, gives them new lease of life

Life threats and declaring war are two powerful weapons in politics, and India is no exception.

Reham Khan is not the lovely Alice in Imran Khan’s Neverland

Reham Khan’s purported book is not really an account of a journalist on a mission to unearth the Harvey Weinstein beneath the façade of a national leader.

Imran Khan and Amitabh Bachchan: How the heroes of 80s have fallen in India and Pakistan

Amitabh Bachchan and Imran Khan epitomised an urbane, defiant modernity in the 1980s. Today, both are regressing into apologist shells of their cultural pasts.

Kargil: What kind of a democracy are we that we are shy of facing the truth about our wars?

On 20th anniversary of Kargil, letting out a story and a few secrets in the national interest. Because we won’t win unless we learn from our mistakes.

The vague ‘urban Naxal’ was invented to avoid difficult questions on Modi’s vikaas

Anyone whose work revolves around analysing, questioning and maintaining accountability of the government is now an ‘urban Naxal’ and an ‘enemy’.

On Camera

Trump’s Iran blockade isn’t just about Tehran, it’s about China

The oil math is skewed against the White House. The blockade has a slim chance of working. Iran can remain defiant, and China unconcerned, longer than Trump can remain solvent.

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

IEA projects sharp reversal from its earlier expectations, with global demand for oil in 2026 turning negative. Hormuz disruptions have pushed crude prices to $130 per barrel.

Warfare enters new dimension as Ukraine’s robot brigade records battle win against Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a group of Russian soldiers surrendered to an unmanned battle group.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.