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Karnataka election 2023 — eight lessons for the BJP, Congress, and all of India

Kudos to the Congress for maintaining an edge over BJP in public perception. The only solace for the BJP is that it’s out of power but not out of the state.

IWL tells what’s wrong with women football—player burnout, no non-veg food, no broadcaster

The players who fall prey to injuries have no time to bounce back, and the ones who are exhausted have no time to recover.

Tractor ride, midnight fear: Muzaffarnagar victims recall riots but unmoved by rape verdict

Ten years after the 2013 UP riots, a court convicted two men of gangraping a Muslim woman fleeing with her 3-month-old child. But for many families, life is stuck between ‘before riots’ and ‘after riots’.

More than Imran, it’s jihadist influence on Pakistan army that’s Gen Asim Munir’s headache

For the first time in Pakistan’s history, action against a political leader has inspired an impromptu mini-intifada against the military itself.

Karnataka shows no magic needed to defeat BJP in 2024. Answer is ‘ridiculously simple’

A Congress victory would show the path to a possible defeat for the BJP at the national level. The challenge for the opposition is to understand this path & stick to it.

Tharoors and Shabana Azmis took a classic liberal stand on ‘Kerala Story’. They must rethink

I do think we should debate how to respond when popular culture is used to divide the Indian people. India is changing. Perhaps our responses should change too.

Dream11 to PokerBaazi—Indians have a new online gaming addiction. And they are losing big

New Delhi: At 9:30 pm on a Saturday, a group of 14 men gathered on a Zoom call to talk about their addiction to...

Imran Khan’s arrest in Pakistan proof the Army has won. But silencing him won’t help govt

The Al-Qadir Trust case is just the beginning of the military’s plan to lock up Imran until he surrenders.

Blinkit deliverymen would rather work for Uber-Ola, run YouTube channels. Dignity comes first

Young delivery executives brave more than just heatwaves and traffic. They also deal with dismissive family members, indifferent employers, hostile guards, and rude customers.

The Kerala Story—It’s time Muslims give up their medieval ideal of conquest, conversion

The liberal-secular patrons of the Islamic preachers neither talk about conversions nor let others do the talking. They are devoid of integrity and lack tools to analyse the phenomenon.

On Camera

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.