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Girl kills father, lover turns murderer. Are rural romances growing deadlier?

Love affairs in rural India seem to be turning deadlier, more brutal, and increasingly gender-agnostic. These breathlessly covered ‘prem prasangs’ suggest a churning among rural youth and a society that’s unprepared.

Young Indians are making Khatu Shyam cool. Govt is playing catch-up with new temple corridor

From 2 lakh weekly visitors to Rs 250 crore annual donations, Khatu Shyam temple in Rajasthan's Sikar draws massive crowds and investment, with govt pumping Rs 350+ crore into infrastructure.

Kashmiri jihadists more resilient than we think. Rebuilding J&K Police is key to counter them

The new jihadists in J&K have harried Indian forces, staged a series of ambushes, and now begun to target Indian civilian infrastructure projects.

A to Z of AQI—Why Delhi can’t breathe easy

ThePrint looks at how and why Delhi is vulnerable every year. It’s the annual ritual of masks and air purifiers.

My question on Canada: Are these spies really the best India can find in the 21st century?

Senior officers at R&AW do not know how to conduct covert operations. Many are police officers who don’t seem to understand the difference between an encounter and a covert hit.

Is Donald Trump a fascist or clown? He’s just following the playbook

Trump’s rise has meant a hollowing out of the unstated social agreement on which all democracy rests. Even if he loses this election, repairing that damage will be a challenge.

DY Chandrachud’s legacy is he put a fresh coat of paint on SC. It needed structural changes

Superficial steps that only burnish the CJI’s image has been a hallmark of DY Chandrachud’s changes on the administrative side of the SC.

In ANI vs Wikimedia, Round 1 goes to India’s tech law. The US firm has taken a beating twice

During the trial, Wikimedia did something that it hasn’t done anywhere else in the world. It took down an English article after the Delhi High Court order.

In Pawar bastion Baramati, Yugendra up against his own Goliath. Uncle Ajit has never lost an election

Second nephew versus uncle tussle in Pawar family, with Sharad & Ajit Pawar at loggerheads following latter’s rebellion. Yugendra is son of Ajit’s elder brother Shrinivas.

Who wrote the letter alleging sexual harassment against Jind SP? No one is coming out

Fatehabad SP Astha Modi, who is probing allegations, has so far questioned 19 women police personnel whose names match with those mentioned in the letter.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

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.