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Indians don’t know how their credit scores are calculated. CIBIL needs govt oversight

A lower CIBIL score enables banks to charge higher interest rates. This raises questions about a concerning nexus between financial institutions and credit bureaus.

Taliban’s Afghanistan has become a giant prison for women. The world couldn’t care less

Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.’ Except, it wasn’t.

Tollywood trade union is ‘bleeding’ Bengali cinema—forced hires, work limits, boycotts

Bengal’s film industry is in the throes of an existential crisis as union rules hike costs, block talent, and stall shoots. Film projects have plunged from 134 in 2023 to just 37 this year.

Vibrant village programme bringing people back to LAC villages; tourists knocking

Out-migration from border villages emboldens the Chinese to further expand their territorial claims beyond the existing deployment.

UP, Bihar and the dancing women obsession

Forced to perform socially sanctioned sleaze, young women in UP and Bihar fight a daily battle against exploitation and danger—both on and off stage.

Ajmer Dargah survey isn’t about righting historic wrongs. It’s an assault on Indian history

There is nothing a premodern Muslim ruler, teacher, or devotee could ever do to be accepted as Indian by the far Right—even if premodern Hindus accepted or even worshipped them.

It’s too much to hope for BJP to give up Mandir-Masjid or for Indians to say enough is enough

Were Indian Muslims right to reject Babri compromise? Sambhal, Ajmer is what they said would happen.

It’s jihadists vs secularism in Syria again. Aleppo crisis is a dangerous new turning point

Members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—or Commission for the Liberation of the Levant—brushed aside the Army’s 46 Regiment and captured Aleppo for the second time last week.

Avadh Ojha said in Allahabad one could either become a gunda or IAS. Then he joined politics

As the news of Ojha joining the AAP flashed on TV screens, many WhatsApp groups of coaching institutes started buzzing. While some teachers laughed, many appreciated his move.

Naga society wants peace talks to reach logical end. ‘Lollipop assurances by govt dividing Nagas’

Nagas say ‘fed up with extortion in name of nationalism’ & warn that if ‘ceasefire between Govt and Naga groups breaks down, there could be violence among Naga tribes as well’.

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.