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There’s a lot of South in Ayodhya Ram temple. Modi trying to take BJP to Southern India

The Ram temple is trying to widen its cultural lasso to appease an India beyond the cow belt.

Ayodhya Ram temple a political game-changer for Modi, BJP? Pew survey on religion has answers

If religion is crucial in the lives of 80 per cent of Hindu non-BJP voters, the effectiveness of the Opposition's argument about the BJP mixing politics with religion comes into question.

Pakistan Army’s power is eroding. Baloch protestors are sending a message to the world

The Pakistan Army is in a funk because its traditional methods of dealing with dissent and handling these kinds of protests are no longer working.

Is there a ‘void’ in Indian history? Brahmagiri, Maski hold the answer

It’s unfortunate that history books still echo an age-old narrative of the past where archaeological data is only to be used as supporting evidence.

For 500 years, Ayodhya was ‘Shriheen’. Now, it’s all aglow

Something seems to have shifted. There is no animosity against anyone. Small things matter – from tiny pouches of akshat to five diyas, simple songs and aartis.

Ram is home, it’s time to celebrate. Forget the bitterness of the Ayodhya agitation

A mammoth effort was made to create false narratives against this agitation, especially in English-language media.

Three steps to resolve India-China boundary question — delimitation, delineation, demarcation

This unsettled frontier hurts China more than it does India, as it casts them in the light of the 'neighbourhood bully'.

Ram Mandir construction shows a wounded civilisation healing itself. Muslims will gain from it

The advent of Indian Muslims under Hindutva is best reflected through the rise of Pasmandas.

GST is squeezing states, but RBI’s ‘solution’ of more taxes is unfair

The RBI suggested in a December 2023 report that with GST impacting ‘vertical fiscal imbalance’, states should consider collecting additional taxes under the head ‘States’ Own Tax Revenue’.

Ram Temple inauguration brings smug satisfaction to Pakistan—vindication of two-nation theory

Just as Pakistan treats its Hindu population as inferior citizens with fewer rights, so too Muslims in India must never forget they are the unwanted progeny of invaders who despoiled a pristine land and robbed it of its glories.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘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.