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One year of Yogi: 50% UP residents satisfied with govt, 70% feel law & order has improved

Survey says people are happy about electricity supply, municipal & civic services, and ease of doing business, but corruption and healthcare remain a problem.

Angry with MPs fighting, Venkaiah Naidu cancels special dinner for them

Naidu had planned an Andhra Pradesh special dinner, with specialist cooks called from the state.

They fooled us: Families of Indians killed in Iraq question why they weren’t told earlier

Over a dozen meetings with the external affairs minister, the families were assured that their missing kin were alive. But now, Swaraj has declared them dead.

The firm at the centre of FB data leak row: A mining behemoth of a different sort

Cambridge Analytica, headquartered in London, is known to aid political campaigns through voter profiles crafted via extensive data mining. New Delhi: A UK-based data analytics...

Rahul Gandhi to have an ‘Amar, Akbar and Anthony’ day in Karnataka

Rahul will visit a temple, a church and a shrine; his itinerary seems to have been designed to re-affirm syncretism in the political ideology of Congress party.

To understand the debate on Lingayats, one must know how they’re different from Hindus

In half a dozen public rallies seen in north Karnataka last year, a few lakh people convened to express support for delinking Lingayat dharma from Hinduism.

Siddaramaiah’s Lingayat gamble: Can minority status swing BJP’s votebank?

Minority status has been a long-standing demand of the community, which constitutes 17 per cent of the state’s population.

Bypolls won’t impact future elections, Modi magic not waning: BJP gen secy Bhupendra Yadav

The man expected to be BJP’s in-charge for Rajasthan polls says there’s no question of replacing CM Vasundhara Raje before elections.

Rahul Gandhi may be a good human being, but he isn’t a politician: Himanta Biswa

No possibility of early Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s key figure in northeast says quoting Amit Shah.

A status-check of all the grand promises TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu made in 2014

While lack of central funds was the reason for the TDP’s exit from the NDA, how much has the state govt been able to do with what it had? ThePrint finds out.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

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.