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China wants to create new order in Myanmar. India must switch gears or be dealt out of the game

India’s policy on Myanmar has been to deal with its Generals and maintain a distance from the country’s insurgent groups and political struggles. This will have to change.

A handwritten note, 2 signatures, only dead ends in Kashmir—Sarla Bhat murder is no easy case

When the case was reopened, her father went through every file, every yellowed newspaper clipping, every document he had gathered over the years. That night, he didn't sleep.

A DDA flat baithak brings intimacy back to Indian classical music. Beyond scale, spectacle

Upstairs looks like any other home in a quiet neighbourhood. But on a concert night, it transforms into something else.

The widow who turned rebel: UP MLA Pooja Pal, who was expelled from SP hours after praising Yogi

Lucknow: Of all the reasons to enter politics, hers was the strangest: Murder. And it was BSP leader Mayawati who encouraged Pooja Pal to...

Politics marked by paradoxes: Anatomy of BJP’s ‘Jat dilemma’

New Delhi: Days after Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of Jammu and Kashmir passed away, a Sarva Khap Panchayat was held at Charkhi...

Your Honour, like, share, subscribe? Legal influencers are reshaping how young Indians understand law

Bar Councils aren't amused. With line between public legal education & personal brand-building becoming more blurred, they are cracking down on what they call 'unethical canvassing'.

Dogs matter more to Indian middle class than people

Why do people who complain that our municipalities are incapable of offering proper shelter to dogs not worry about the pathetic shelter offered to refugees and victims of political persecution?

Indian cities are a mess of overhead wires. Delhi will pay Rs 8 cr to clear just 5 km

Historian Sohail Hashmi called the wires a colonial curse. While Europeans had started undergrounding wires fairly early, the same focus was not reserved for the colonies.

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Tiruppur orders on hold, pressure to sell cheap, Diwali fears—Trump tariff & Tamil Nadu hub

Senior knitwear workers recalled past slumps, including the 2008 financial crisis, GST rollout, and Covid-19. ‘Each time, the industry adapted until the scenario returned to normal.’

On Camera

Why Modi, BJP should worry about bad blood between CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Rahul Gandhi

If there is bad blood between the CEC and the Opposition leaders, it will shake the people’s faith in election results. It’s the worst thing that could happen to Indian democracy.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

Pakistan signs $1.5 billion deal to sell lethal combat weapons to Sudan’s junta

The deal, believed to be paid for by a third nation, will give the Sudanese Armed Forces access to light attack aircraft, engines, armoured fighting vehicles & unmanned aerial vehicles.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?