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Dalit man dies in UP police custody—’Return my son’, mother demands, gets a lathi instead

Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman visited the home of Akash Singh 'Jatav', a 28-year-old man who died in police custody in Firozabad. Mayawati and Chandra Shekhar Azad are also demanding justice.

Union Budget is not corporate India’s wishlist. Tax breaks can’t solely drive profit

The incidence of GST is higher on the poor than rich. The public would be better off pushing for faster timelines for this rather than making plaintive appeals for income tax reductions.

India’s 3rd-largest landlords, waqf boards are beset with litigations, demolitions, bias

Waqf boards are struggling to maintain control of their vast properties with mounting legal battles, a losing perception war, internal chaos, and political heat.

Rural Haryana is at war with love marriage—brother shoots sister, boasts on Instagram with gun

‘As police personnel, our duty is to protect the couple in the safe house, but as a Haryanvi, I know love marriages are a blot on our society," said an inspector from Narnaul.

Free will, dissent, defiance – signs of democracy returning to BJP

Those pushed aside during the Modi-Shah regime are beginning to find their feet and voice. And these are early days yet. The BJP must welcome these developments.

Caught between his mass appeal & internal apprehensions, how RSS is conflicted about Yogi Adityanath

UP CM is seen as ‘outsider not bred in RSS ways’, but is also widely admired as Hindutva administrator. Lacking an outfit behind him, he’s said to be in succession battle with Amit Shah.

1984 Chennai airport bombing shows what happens when spies hijack foreign policy

Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, seduced by the power covert means could give, allowed Indian foreign policy to become untethered from consideration of its real-world consequences.

UP village kids forced ISRO to bring space lab. Now they use drones, building weather station

A Bollywood movie, students with big dreams, a supportive pradhan, and ISRO's leap of faith gave UP's Hasudi Ausanpur village India's first primary school with its own space lab. Now, village elders are learning through science.

There’s a boom in senior citizens climbing the Himalayas. Risk evaluation is the first step

Senior citizens are constantly under pressure to gracefully recede from the public eye and retire. But mountaineers and trekkers in their 60s and 70s are questioning this view.

Noida has a thriving black market in farmhouses. Delhi’s partying rich are driving it

Middlemen have marketed the river side as the countryside, pitched them as weekend getaways to the rich from Delhi, and sold them at throwaway prices.

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Pakistani fundamentalists closer to controlling state. Now the battle is over baby milk bank

Islamic clerics push back against human milk banks as Shari’a proscribes marriages between so-called milk siblings. But several Islamic countries, including Iran, operate them.

Noida International Airport, Delhi NCR’s 2nd, delayed. To begin operations by April 2025

According to a statement by the airport, commercial operations likely to begin next year 'in view of the current construction status'. It was supposed to commence operations by 2024 end.

India’s 15-yr quest for anti-tank missile: Israeli Spike, DRDO option, back to US for Javelin talks

Recent high-profile visit was of US National Security Adviser this month during which a number of key issues, including military cooperation, was discussed by both sides.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.