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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.

Indian politics is going back to the pre-2014 era. What this means to Brand Modi and BJP

BJP may even end up winning Maharashtra and Jharkhand but going back to pre-2014 politics will hurt Brand Modi.

Priyanka Gandhi’s Wayanad story can take many turns–success, horror, entertainment for INDIA

It’s only now, when the Rahul formula seems to be failing, that Sonia Gandhi has allowed Priyanka to make her political debut.

South India isn’t running out of people. Solution to delimitation is in political action

Stalin didn’t ask couples to have 16 children. And it wouldn’t solve the dependency ratio problem. Southern states already have a higher-than-average unemployment rate.

Sati economy is still big in Rajasthan. No pending file on Roop Kanwar in Jaipur

‘I don’t think sati can ever happen again,’ Karni Sena member Bhagwan Singh Rathore said with a scowl. ‘Today’s women are not like women of the past.’

Iran and Israel are in a lose-lose situation. They can’t cross red line or back out

The story of an aircraft that came down in 1981 helps us understand the forces that are acting to restrain both countries, even as their leaders blow the trumpets of wars in public.

Anxious residents to warring parties, why Dharavi project is one of biggest talking points this election

As the two-decade-old Dharavi redevelopment project stumbles to take off, it has once again become a key bone of contention between Mahayuti & MVA ahead of Maharashtra's assembly polls.

Delhi’s open gyms are becoming a safety hazard. Install, inaugurate, forget

If you won’t file a complaint, they assume that everything is functional in the open gym, said a retired MCD official.

On Camera

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.