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Mumbai underworld gone, Bollywood gets a menace for the digital age: Lawrence Bishnoi

For Mumbai, Baba Siddique's killing was a nasty déjà vu. Lawrence Bishnoi is now seen as attempting to fill the void left by the city's once powerful organised crime syndicates.

‘Leopard Trail’ is Gurugram’s wildest hangout. Party animals are taking over Aravallis

The once tranquil ‘Leopard Trail’ in the Aravallis has become a hub for birthday bashes and boozy nights. But the party’s over for illegal cafes, says Gurugram’s new 'demolition' officer

Kho kho reborn

No longer just another game millions of Indians played in their childhood, kho kho now holds the power to change lives.

At first, Bangladeshi media denied attack on Hindus. Now, India’s TV news stands vindicated

The indignation became shriller as news channels replayed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s remarks last week on ‘Babur, Bangladesh and Sambhal'.

DU’s Northeast students’ union fought prejudice with politics—now it’s pulling back at a price

NESSDU earned police and political backing after the 2014 murder of Northeast student Nido Tania. Now it’s ditching politics to focus on student welfare—but losing out on funds and clout.

Sambhal: A history of violence

‘Sambhal doesn’t have a perfect history, but it has a long history.’ And this Jama Masjid is no ordinary masjid. It’s one of the oldest surviving Mughal mosques in the country.

Serendipity Arts Festival is inviting Panaji, its people to co-author a new cultural chronicle

Next week, Panaji will revisit London's Poems on the Underground tradition. In shuttle cabs moving between Serendipity Arts Festival venues, six poets will share verses through intimate performances.

The Assad regime fell due to its own failures, not geopolitical plots. Syrians face new fears

Even though Tahrir al-Sham has promised to protect minorities, and to crush transnational jihadist groups in Syria, exactly what comes next is impossible to predict.

Budget 2025—three reasons your income tax isn’t going down

Income tax is such a steady and reliable revenue stream, and an increasingly vital one, that the government simply cannot afford to do anything that would curtail it.

Putting state-run hospitals in private hands is an ongoing experiment. It doesn’t always pan out

In Part 1 of this two-part series, ThePrint looked at Madhya Pradesh government’s attempt to implement a PPP model across 12 district hospitals and...

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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.