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Bihar wants to be the next tourism hotspot. Drone influencers are rushing to Rohtas

Bihar has long been trying to shed its badlands image and tourism is its latest pitch. In the absence of big industries, the state has chosen an easier way of building up revenue.

RSS has remained relevant for 100 yrs despite challenges. World now embraces its ideologies

Being a nascent organisation and its membership composed primarily of middle-class Hindus, RSS never had the financial wherewithal to combat the narrative set against them.

US and allies boast of killing whomever they want, yet lecture India on morality

To believe that educated Indians will never question their government is silly. We question the government every single day. Currently, we are worried about how our spy agencies are run.

R&AW must answer why it tolerates poor tradecraft, recruitment standards, officer oversight

The alleged plot to kill Khalistan propagandist and lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had all the comic elements of an old-fashioned Bollywood cop movie.

Indian spy Vikash Yadav was fighting R&AW in CAT for his job while ‘targeting’ Pannun

Questions have arisen over how a junior officer, denied permanent appointment despite nearly 9 years in service and ongoing litigation, became involved in highly sensitive case.

Bharat Mata image, freedom struggle songs had videshi touch: Harvard Prof Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose calls it the ‘colourful cosmopolitanism’ and the ‘border-crossing possibilities’ of India’s nationalist freedom movement—where foreign influences could happily coexist with surging patriotism.

Waqf Amendment Bill isn’t radical enough. Reinvent or wind up

The near total absence of any visible charity by Waqf should bring us to its real character and organisational structure.

Justin Trudeau is rewriting Nijjar killing as a morality play. The real story is more complex

India is learning that lesser nations must pay a price for invoking the principles that govern the great.

Masjids, migrants, mobility. Himachal is becoming a new anti-mosque hotspot

‘This is a class issue that has been turned into a religious issue by Hindu organisations.’

If you believe the theories, Lawrence Bishnoi is doing what even Dawood Ibrahim couldn’t

Bishnoi was five years old when Salman was accused of killing the black buck. So either this was a formative childhood experience that led to a life of crime or this story is a lie.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.