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Sooraj Barjatya’s sanskaar-sadgi-shaadi formula is now ready for OTT era

Sooraj Barjatya has updated his hasta-khelta joint-family universe with Bada Naam Karenge. ‘I'll be happiest if a youngster takes a subscription to watch this with grandparents’.

Where is Kangana Ranaut? How BJP’s favourite poster child went missing from its script

BJP MP Kangana Ranaut’s attendance plummeted to zero in this year's budget session. She has also been absent from her constituency, and has been skipping court hearings.

A teachers’ crisis is brewing across India—Chhattisgarh to UP, Punjab, Tamil Nadu

Recruitment scandals, new competency exams, ad-hocism, and low salaries—India's schoolteachers are fighting on the streets, in courts, and even online.

Was sati a British myth about India? Medieval memorial stones hold the truth

After Amish Tripathi and Bhavish Aggarwal questioned the reality of sati, liberals are claiming that the ritual was endemic to Hindu society. Neither have it completely right.

Ranveer Allahbadia fought Left cancel culture. And yet, the Right came after him

These hypocrites give comedy a bad name, but no Indian citizen should have the full weight of the state used against them over a joke, no matter how crass.

A Cloud Called Bhura to Hello Sun, Indian children’s fiction is telling climate stories

Indian children’s fiction is taking on the climate crisis. There are now mysteries, picture books, modern fables, and adventure titles with environmental themes.

Haryana khap breaks 100-yr-old marriage taboo between villages. Now waits for 1st wedding

Across Haryana, young couples have to live by socially constructed dos and don’ts and defiance would earn the wrath of Khap panchayats.

Al-Qaeda’s last Indian soldier is imprisoned in Pakistan. Is the long jihad finally dead?

It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India jihadist no longer guarantees gentle treatment in Pakistani prisons.

Trump tariff diplomacy is reversing Modi’s protectionist decade

Import tariffs are not an economic consideration for the government of India anyway, with data from Budget 2025-26 showing that customs duty isn’t a key revenue source.

Dalit on a horse

Lawyer Mukesh Parecha from Gujarat rode a horse on his wedding day, 6 February 2025, holding the Constitution instead of a sword.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.