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Malegaon & its many rewrites. Riots, bombs, Superman & now Reels

The ‘Malegaon Boys’ button up brand-new shirts, set up their cameras, and strike Shah Rukh Khan poses to 1990s Bollywood songs between grueling loom shifts. Their Reels draw lakhs of views. For the first time, they feel seen.

Three Hyderabad start-ups are conquering the new frontier in space race — Low Earth Orbit

Half a dozen graduates from IIT, BITS Pilani, and other engineering colleges are propelling India into the next frontier of modern spaceflight — satellites in LEO. Hyderabad is a hub.

RSS is warming up to Yogi Adityanath. CM has many more boxes to tick

It’s not just the Opposition parties Yogi Adityanath has to contend with. His detractors within the BJP are no less formidable.

12 officers, a tip-off, and a 7-day operation—how DFO Parveen Kaswan caught ‘Veerappan of East’

Rikoch Narjari’s men used military-grade tranquilisers and high-powered rifles. The only proof of his brutality would be the mutilated bodies of rhinos collapsed in the brush.

A dargah & a ‘boycott’—how village in Maharashtra’s Ahilyanagar became a communal tinderbox

In Guha, Muslims allege ‘social & economic boycott’, while Hindus deny claims. The communal flare-up has seemingly had ripple effects in neighbouring villages & talukas.

Washington shooter’s story is about American barbarism, not ‘Third World’ backwardness

Part of a CIA-trained zero unit, Rahmanullah Lakanwal was evacuated to the US before the fall of Kabul in 2021. But his long journey failed to wash the blood from his mind.

‘Two Sinners’ is about vigilante justice. It asks tough questions in a 12-minute runtime

In Two Sinners, Azhar and his brother Hussain are on the brink of delivering vigilante justice to Mushtaq. The only information the audience knows is that he has assaulted a woman.

Night before VIT Bhopal burned—A slap, a Reddit post, and a jaundice scare

The violence, now under a state govt investigation, raises tough questions for a university that touts national stature, yet failed to prevent its campus from descending into disorder.

Terror trials stuck in time: German bakery to Mumbai train blasts, an endless crawl through courts

Starting from the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blasts to the 2011 Delhi high court blast, terror cases are often just languishing in the judicial maze.

Is Delhi University no longer in demand? Vacant seats, misfit faculty, bloated syllabus

The silent but stunning slide of Delhi University is one of the biggest shocks to the public university system in India. And yet, nobody seems to be in a hurry to rescue it.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.