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Long arc of Nitish Kumar: From Modi-baiter to BJP’s bridge in Bihar

Nitish Kumar (75), Bihar's longest serving CM, filed nomination on Thursday for Rajya Sabha elections, clearing the decks for a change of guard in Bihar.

Sex, spa and two Muslim women. The Bhopal crime drama that’s in every WhatsApp chat

Local newspapers in Bhopal initially ran wild stories about 'love jihad' and Muslim women running sex racket, but have stopped the follow-up coverage. Some are calling it a “perfect” plot line for Anurag Kashyap’s next film.

Nitish’s exit is good for Bihar. It’s the beginning of JD(U)’s end and BJP’s supremacy

The JD(U) may still have 12 members in the Lok Sabha and 85 in the state Assembly, but without Nitish Kumar as its face, the party is confronted with a big leadership vacuum.

Indians laughing at their countrymen in Dubai are a disgrace. We have much to learn

While some Indians were spewing hatred, the government of Dubai got on with the job. The city coped with the crisis magnificently because of the quality of its leadership.

The story of India’s forgotten Afghans — horse-traders, mercenaries, kings

The relationship between Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent was built over five centuries by people who were entrepreneurial, mobile, literate, and commercially connected.

Naxal-turned-Telangana minister Seethakka’s message for surrendered cadres—‘jobs, dignity, opportunity’

In an interview with ThePrint, Telangana minister for panchayat raj and rural development explains how she turned rebel when she was a teen & what led her out of the movement.

Assam went to war on Kaziranga poachers. Rhinos are winning

Rhino poaching at Kaziranga National Park dropped to zero in 2025. Its conservation model includes 253 anti-poaching camps, drones, ‘Van Durgas’, and shoot-on-sight orders.

From streets, GenZ once toppled Nepal govt. They are now fighting battle for reforms up to Parliament

As Nepal election begins 5 March, ThePrint speaks to five prominent faces of the GenZ movement about the shift—and splintering—of youth politics in the country.

Empires inflicted a century of regime change on Iran. Each wanted a compliant, powerless nation

The lessons of earlier American regime-change efforts should be obvious. The dismantling of Iran’s regime could lead to the breakdown of state authority and the rise of warlords.

India-Iran ties were always more promise than reality. Real risk for us is a distracted US

Iran becomes an added concern for India because Trump could have one more reason to lose focus.

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Indian welfarists destroyed right to property by guaranteeing rights to life, liberty

A welfare state grows out of mutual co-operation and spontaneity, not through measures thrust forcibly upon the masses, wrote G Jayachandran in 1959.

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.