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Read the Kashmir verdict. It’s time to stop treating it like a national security crisis

Election after election has seen Kashmir’s people demonstrate that, like other Indians, they seek a future shaped by democratic rights and norms

Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination underlines Israel’s military supremacy. Will it win peace?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of being drawn into another attritional war with Hezbollah. His commanders they are unlikely to win.

Will JVP resume war on Sri Lanka’s ethnic minorities? Party’s rise reopens festering wounds

The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the JVP’s politics and cultural imagination.

Kamala Harris seems to have won the US presidential debate. Does it really matter?

Does the debate change the opinions of voters as it famously did in 1960? The answer is about the changing role of image in American politics, not about the ideas of the candidates.

The most tragic legacy of 9/11 is a West that wants to repaint itself white

Mass immigration built the multi-ethnic societies that powered an unprecedented period of global prosperity. That era could be one of the things bin Laden’s jihadists demolished.

IC 814 hijack was a victory for Masood Azhar—and the moment of his strategic downfall

Twenty-five years on, India is debating whether the producers of a Netflix series should have mentioned the Hindu pseudonyms used by IC814 hijackers. The inchoate rage hides painful national wounds.

Chinese, Laos officials are shielding East Asian crime empires. Time to act now

For criminal cartels of all kinds, the casino cities on China’s peripheries offer security and immunity. In Kings Romans Casino, prison-like dormitories house the cyber-slaves.

Telegram CEO arrest set the stage for a law vs tech battle. It will shape norms worldwide

Across the world, though, organised crime cartels are continuing to use free, easily available tech tools, and the patience of some governments is starting to run out.

Pakistan’s battle with bandits shows why it is losing all wars within

Earlier this week, gangs of dacoits operating in the badlands between the Koh-i Sulaiman mountains, the Indus and the Cholistan desert, ambushed and killed 12 police officers.

India’s rape rage risks producing judicial lynchings, not real justice. See 2018 Lodha case

There’s no telling if the suspect held for the Kolkata case is guilty, but the Lodha case reveals the criminal justice system just doesn’t care about the truth.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.