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Rust, rot & 2 dead athletes — Haryana’s sports powerhouse story has faultlines

From Rohtak to Jhajjar, rusted poles, broken courts and vanished accountability show how a sporting powerhouse is failing its youngest athletes.

Bhiwadi pollution nightmare is worse than Delhi. Nobody wants to talk about it

Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi has grown into an industrial and real-estate hub, but air quality and livability are collapsing. The pattern is repeating across India's industrial towns.

The silent crisis at Delhi’s CSDS. A fund freeze after show-cause notice

CSDS is India’s most influential research institute, known for larger-than-life thinkers like Rajni Kothari, Ashis Nandy, and Dhirubhai Sheth, who built an India-centric political theory.

From Bankim’s private musings to a war cry—the many lives of Vande Mataram

Idolatry is anti-science, was the private belief of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, who wrote the song whose idolatry became one of the most divisive issues during India’s national movement.

Anime’s desi soul is in small-town India. Nagpur is its capital

Japan may be the anime capital of the world, but small cities such as Nagpur, Jaipur, and Bhubaneswar are among its most dedicated Indian outposts.

Indian states are competing to be the concert capital. Post Malone in Assam a turning point

After Coldplay performed last year in Ahmedabad, the phrase concert economy was suddenly in vogue. It has set off a competition among several states to become India’s concert capital.

How a Hindu murderer on parole became ‘namazi Rahim’ and evaded arrest for 36 years

Pradeep moved to a rented house in Moradabad, married Salma, a widow, and continued working as a truck driver all these years.

Anaemic mothers of Melghat & a silent emergency. 140 child deaths in 7 months bare chronic neglect

At least 140 children have died in 2 talukas of Melghat since April. ‘Problem is’, says a doctor, ‘how can you draw water if well is empty? Mothers themselves are in poor health.’

Sanchar Saathi app U-turn is a rare victory for middle-class Indians against Modi govt

The Sanchar Saathi app saga's message to the critics of Modi government is: protest loudly because it is possible to get this administration to reverse its policy.

1989 Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case still haunts Indian policy-making in Kashmir

The kidnapping—followed by the killing of four Indian Air Force officers soon after, and the executions of Intelligence Bureau personnel—made the triumph of jihadism seem inevitable.

On Camera

Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.