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Rahul Gandhi has wasted yet another opportunity of being a serious politician

The BJP would be well advised to refrain from taking any serious legal action against Rahul Gandhi for his ‘lies, half-lies and fulminations’.

‘Muslim’ in AMU doesn’t make the university anti-national, just like ‘Hindu’ in BHU doesn’t

Calling AMU as Allah Miyan’s University is opposing PM Narendra Modi’s accurate description of Aligarh Muslim University as ‘Mini India’.

Waqf boards are India’s big urban landlords. But whose interest are they serving?

Waqf boards are the third largest landowners in India, after Armed Forces and Railways. But India's Muslim community is still struggling for basic needs.

TRAI’s OTT regulation agenda is confusing. It forgets consumers, serves telco interests

TRAI is a carriage regulator, which means it governs the network and not the content. It does not have the expertise to regulate OTT services.

With each election win, BJP is bridging the gap between Northeast and rest of India

BJP and its allies' victories in Tripura and Nagaland show how Northeast people’s political aspirations have risen beyond the narrow ideological politics of divisiveness.

Indian military finally spoke on Ukraine war. Now it must see the Donbas-Punjab similarity

From high-precision weapons to logistics, Agniveers to fighting in built-up areas, India can take insight from Donbas on what it would have to face in a fight in Punjab.

A medieval Malayan king beat Cholas at their game. Almost created a superpower

Not all invasions went from India/Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia. The Malayan rulers of Tambralinga tried to establish an empire across the seas.

Harry Potter sealed the defeat of Hindi books for children. But a new ‘pitara’ looks promising

Sooner or later, our English-speaking elite will realise that they don’t want their children to be poor cousins of American brats.

India’s auto component industry is clocking billions but road to Atmanirbhar is still bumpy

India makes 36 to 40 million airbag modules every year. But the high-strength fabric used to make each one of them is imported.

K Madal is Yediyurappa’s protégé. And so BJP is silent on Lokayukta raid at his son’s house

When Yogi speaks everyone else moves down TV's priority list. Even BJP chief JP Nadda

On Camera

New promo video by PLA Navy is a teaser of China’s deep blue capabilities

Rather than functioning as conventional propaganda, the video operates as a device for interpretation, subtly shaping expectations about future developments in China’s naval trajectory.

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

The 500,000 tonne-per-year plant produced just 94,000 tonnes of refined copper from April 2025 to February this year.

JD Vance worried Pentagon not giving Trump the full picture of the war—The Atlantic report

Vance, originally sceptical about US launching strikes against Iran, is reported to be worried that the US does not have enough interceptors and offensive missiles, something he has raised with Trump.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.