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MP district Burhanpur declared itself 100% Har Ghar Jal. But that’s just a start

How many taps get water — and how often — is completely a call of the local ‘water men.’ And that is where organisational lapses become clear.

PM Modi wants India to shed its colonial past. He should begin by reforming the police

Indian musical instruments in Army bands, new naval ensign, Raj Path renamed Kartavya Path. But one colonial legacy Modi hasn’t shown interest in eradicating is Police Act of 1861.

Meet Shinde’s doppelganger. He poses for pics, hears people’s problems & is now in the dock

When Eknath Shinde became Maharashtra CM, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha member Vijay Mane became famous overnight. But his looks have now led to FIR & claims that he 'hurt CM's image'.

Mathura, Hapur, Jhajjar – Small-town divorces rising and shocking courts, lawyers, families

A common sentiment that is prevalent in smaller towns at large is, "80 per cent of this is coming from women."

Modi’s reforms, Ambedkar’s ideals – It’s time to debate bringing back original Preamble

At the launch of a new book, ‘Ambedkar and Modi’, it is important to remember Modi’s Constitution yatra 12 years ago.

‘Rahul, Priyanka have no time for senior leaders’, says poll-bound HP’s Cong chief Pratibha Singh

Rahul needs to learn political manoeuvres, she says, adds there are many leaders & stalwarts who can fill that space if the Gandhi scion doesn’t want to devote time to the party.

AAP is a lazy and guilt-free version of the BJP

For all its talk of honesty, the Kejriwal-led party’s identity-free identity is anything but authentic.

‘Murderer’s mom’—Not just the prisoner, their family also goes on death row in India

Life of Indian families with a prisoner on death row stops on its tracks. It will 'start again only when he comes back…or goes away forever'.

AAP-ruled Punjab is missing the ‘Delhi model’ Kejriwal is promising in Gujarat and Himachal  

If BJP has the Gujarat model, AAP has the Delhi model. But the Chandigarh University video clip leak shows one has a glaring problem.

1 mn backlog, 37% vacancies, but Allahabad HC lawyers don’t want ‘outsiders’ to fill judges’ ranks

What started as pushback against elevation of former SC judge's son, has extended to UP lawyers practicing in SC, with bar associations demanding judges to be from within Allahabad HC lawyers.

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.