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Tawang to AIIMS, Chinese intrusion has a pattern—to keep India in a reactive mode

After every diplomatic engagement with India, China seems to read the tea leaves far better than New Delhi does.

Protests ended, but Shaheen Bagh’s young Muslim women have been launching daily mutinies

Shaheen Bagh’s long sit-in gave the women a voice against CAA. But they didn’t stop at it, now they are questioning everything.

Pending under UPA, speeding under NDA — 10 big-ticket infra projects that picked up after 2014

Prime Minister Modi has often claimed that the BJP government fast-tracked or completed big-ticket projects that had languished under UPA dispensation. Here are 10 such projects.

Indira Gandhi began it, now Modi, Kejriwal swallow taxpayer money for self-promotion

If by spending hundreds of crores of public money on advertising, political leaders could guarantee their own popularity, then they would never lose elections.

Tawang skirmish shows LAC’s volatile. Army risking getting mired in Siachen-style resource trap

To avoid unsustainable confrontation along the LAC, India will have to avoid the missteps made in 1962—carefully judging just what lines to hold and how to defend them.

Indian women are breaking the silence on menopause. Retreats, start-ups, diets rise

Bombay Begums to Maheep Kapoor—Cultural expressions of menopause in popular cinema are only a reflection of what’s changing on the ground.

10 highways, 3,000 km: Maharashtra’s grand plan to connect almost every district in next 5 yrs

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation pegs total investment at Rs 3 lakh crore. Longest among these projects is Nagpur-Goa highway, or Shaktipeeth expressway.

Assam no longer fears ULFA(I). But it’s what angry, jobless youth turn to when all else fails

Defence sources reveal there are 3 ULFA(I) camps active under their Eastern Command: The Arakan Gut or 779, the Nilgiri Gut, and the Everest or Hoyat camp.

‘Felt like a spy’ — an undercover Indore policewoman busts ‘ragging gang’ at medical college

Constable Shalini Chauhan, 25, posed as a student at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College for 2 months to identify perpetrators & victims. Eleven arrests have been made.

Membership puzzle for Modi: 7 cr ‘new BJP members’ enrolled but not many voting in elections

BJP became world’s largest party in 2019, claiming to have 18 crore members—64 per cent more than 2015. Election result data doesn’t reflect those numbers.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘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.