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Two Muslim women are waging war against polygamy, halala. And paying a heavy price for it

Sameena Begum and Benazir Hina have been isolated, threatened by extremists, and forced into a financial crisis since they started their battle against polygamy, halala, and talaq-e-hasan.

Women’s quota is fine but BJP must do more to make women vote for party & not just PM Modi

BJP has good reasons to hope that women will rally behind PM Modi and the party after women’s quota legislation, but it poses many challenges too.

‘You Kashmiris are like this’—Rafik’s wrongful arrest for rape, murder in Mumbai cost him 7 yrs

One night, 'The Kashmir Files' was screened in Arthur Road jail. Rafik was riveted. An inmate suddenly turned on him. “You Kashmiris are like this,” he shouted.

Crumbling homes, vanished people—Gujarat Parsis stare at their roots turning into ghost towns

Udvada and Navsari towns in Gujarat were once home to a thriving Parsi community that is now rallying to increase its numbers, archive its history, safeguard its memories, and restore its records.

5 Eyes hold the secrets behind Trudeau’s charges. India must worry about its vulnerabilities

For all the talk of cyber-espionage by China or Russia, the Five Eyes are the largest intelligence-gathering organisation in the world, with the capability to harvest all global communications.

‘I feel like Salman Rushdie’ – Bangladeshi atheist blogger on the run has been hiding in India

Now that the calls for his killing have gone international, Asad Noor says he must tell the world about how radical society has become in Bangladesh.

Justin Trudeau is living in a world of make-believe. India has evolved, writes Manpreet Badal

For Khalistan sympathisers in Canada or elsewhere, the message is unequivocal: This is not the India of 1980s and 1990s, grappling with insurgencies or addressing separatist movements.

A dairy disruption is brewing in Indian startups—making protein without animal cruelty

Venkatesh Kareenhalli, a professor at IIT, is taking a different approach to producing proteins for human consumption that mimic meat. He is working with algae.

Why India won’t see women’s reservation in effect until 2039—it’s about trickery

Women’s reservation bill is less than precise, sub-optimal, and uncertain. But the history of such reforms tells us something: once enacted, it cannot be rolled back.

Palki Sharma is the unofficial ambassador of rising, angry India. Her list of foes is long

She writes a letter calling out Xi Jinping, 'cancels' New York Times and attacks the Soros cabal every night on Firstpost Vantage.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.