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Disability influencers on Instagram have one loud message. They don’t exist to inspire you

This club of influencers resides within very high walls, and not by their own choice. Even algorithms are not on their side.

Why Rampur turned against Azam Khan & voted BJP — ‘corruption, instigation, economic decline’

This month's bypoll, necessitated by Khan's conviction in hate speech case, saw a Hindu candidate, BJP's Akash Saxena, win in the Muslim-majority constituency for the first time.

Tawang to AIIMS, Chinese intrusion has a pattern—to keep India in a reactive mode

After every diplomatic engagement with India, China seems to read the tea leaves far better than New Delhi does.

Protests ended, but Shaheen Bagh’s young Muslim women have been launching daily mutinies

Shaheen Bagh’s long sit-in gave the women a voice against CAA. But they didn’t stop at it, now they are questioning everything.

Pending under UPA, speeding under NDA — 10 big-ticket infra projects that picked up after 2014

Prime Minister Modi has often claimed that the BJP government fast-tracked or completed big-ticket projects that had languished under UPA dispensation. Here are 10 such projects.

Indira Gandhi began it, now Modi, Kejriwal swallow taxpayer money for self-promotion

If by spending hundreds of crores of public money on advertising, political leaders could guarantee their own popularity, then they would never lose elections.

Tawang skirmish shows LAC’s volatile. Army risking getting mired in Siachen-style resource trap

To avoid unsustainable confrontation along the LAC, India will have to avoid the missteps made in 1962—carefully judging just what lines to hold and how to defend them.

Indian women are breaking the silence on menopause. Retreats, start-ups, diets rise

Bombay Begums to Maheep Kapoor—Cultural expressions of menopause in popular cinema are only a reflection of what’s changing on the ground.

10 highways, 3,000 km: Maharashtra’s grand plan to connect almost every district in next 5 yrs

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation pegs total investment at Rs 3 lakh crore. Longest among these projects is Nagpur-Goa highway, or Shaktipeeth expressway.

Assam no longer fears ULFA(I). But it’s what angry, jobless youth turn to when all else fails

Defence sources reveal there are 3 ULFA(I) camps active under their Eastern Command: The Arakan Gut or 779, the Nilgiri Gut, and the Everest or Hoyat camp.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?