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Quota for women, minorities & civil code — where India’s ‘founding mothers’ stood on key issues

Supreme Court in a judgment earlier this month used term ‘founding parents’ to refer to makers of Constitution. Of 389 members of Constituent Assembly, 15 were women.

MV Ruen hijacking had unmissable message—naval patrolling is a costly band-aid, not solution

Like it has done on the high seas, India needs to show leadership on dry land, too, and push the world into committing to the military and economic reconstruction of Somalia.

Bengaluru museum is making science artsy, buzzy. And it won’t stop changing

The Science Gallery Bengaluru is ensuring that science is not confined to institutions, creating a two-way bridge between research and the public.

How tussle in SC over little-known shrine in Telangana has revived ‘state control over temples’ debate

Veerabhadra Swamy temple is located on 6 acres of land alongside the elite anti-Maoist combat unit of the Telangana Police & managed by Madapathis who identify as ‘Lingayat Brahmins’.

West Bengal politics has to be de-Brahminised. Dalit aspirations get dismissed daily

A ‘casteless Bengal’ is a carefully curated facade by the upper caste 'Bhadralok' society, which gets a free pass and is never questioned.

Modi govt is changing rural India. They are spending differently from MGNREGA era

The highlight of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 is that the share of rural households' expenditure on cereals has fallen below 10% for the first time.

Bengaluru has a difficult choice—save a 230-year-old stud farm or stay congested

In the tug-of-war between development and green lungs, the racehorse-breeding Kunigal Stud Farm in Karnataka may join the long list of open spaces that have been sacrificed at Bengaluru’s altar.

A new language war in Karnataka is brewing. This time over Tulu dignity

The Kannada-Tulu bitterness is showing up in Karnataka. The calls to stop the imposition of Kananda come even as the Siddaramaiah government continues to target BJP for imposing Hindi.

BL Santhosh, BJP’s rock star general secretary, has all but lost to Yediyurappa in Round 4

BL Santhosh stopped being useful to BJP when he used Modi-Shah's trust in him to settle scores with BS Yediyurappa, leading to the party's loss in the 2023 Karnataka election.

‘Viksit Bharat’ will face many threats on a 2047 battlefield. Warfare has diversified into new domains

Given the complexities of the challenge, it is not the Armed Forces alone but all organs of the government that must dwell on these issues. Technologies and doctrines must develop concurrently.

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Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.