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‘Individual’s choice outweighs’—SC won’t hear AIIMS curative plea over termination of 27-week pregnancy

Bhadra Sinha - April 30, 2026

Rejecting curative petition to revisit court's earlier order, CJI-led bench urges reform of 24-week abortion deadline.

North & Northeast pay more for treatment at govt hospitals, south & border states in private—NSS survey

Sneha Richhariya - April 30, 2026

Hrs after sharing map showing J&K as part of Pakistan, Nepal Airlines regrets ‘cartographic inaccuracy’

Debdutta Chakraborty - April 30, 2026

Supreme Court lets BJP leaders Parvesh Verma and Anurag Thakur off the hook in 2020 hate speech case

Bhadra Sinha - April 30, 2026

Ghaziabad high-rise fire: Residents recall the chaos. ‘Tenders had low water pressure, cars blocked way’

Samridhi Tewari - April 30, 2026

Tel Aviv-Beirut ceasefire teeters as Hezbollah influence in Lebanon faces new test

Jaydeep Gadhavi - April 30, 2026

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That yellow mango may be a chemical trick. What calcium carbide ripening does to your fruit & body

Sneha Richhariya - April 30, 2026

Now, 10-minute delivery of fresh air, escape. Delhi’s affair with hidden lakes, secret trails

Manisha Mondal - April 30, 2026

Charas peddler-turned-MDMA kingpin, Salim Dola dodged justice for over 20 yrs. Now he’s back in the net

Ananya Bhardwaj - April 29, 2026

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Indians are now Australia’s largest migrant group, surpassing the English

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Will urge King Charles to return Kohinoor diamond to India, says NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

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Opinion

Keeping CAPF in Bengal for 60 days raises constitutional questions. It’s not an occupying force

K.B.S Sidhu - April 30, 2026

Under Article 324, the ECI requisitions central forces to ensure free and fair polling. But once the ballot boxes are sealed, that authority begins to fade.

History of Indians in the Arab world—port builders, Jat governor, translators, and slaves

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Anirudh Kanisetti - April 30, 2026

Newspapers, TV channels hesitate to name a victor in Bengal. ‘Kaante ki takkar’

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2026

How India should prepare for a future war with Pakistan and China

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) - April 30, 2026

Eight journalists, four states and 1 UT—how ThePrint covered 2026 Assembly elections

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2026

New promo video by PLA Navy is a teaser of China’s deep blue capabilities

Sana Hashmi - April 29, 2026

Why Hyderabadis need a history lesson beyond the Mughal court

Yunus Lasania - April 29, 2026

Features

India’s LPG subsidies are keeping money from clean energy. This report has a solution

Akanksha Mishra - April 30, 2026

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Exit polls bet on LDF upset in Kerala, BJP & DMK return in Assam, Tamil Nadu; edge for BJP in Bengal

Neelam Pandey - April 29, 2026

Exit polls have in the past gone wrong with their predictions. Counting of votes for West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry is scheduled for 4 May.

Pink toilets to house tax exemption, BJP makes a women-first pitch for Haryana civic polls

Sushil Manav - April 29, 2026

‘Healthy politics’? What’s behind Akhilesh’s hospital visit to BJP MLA injured while burning his effigy

Prashant Srivastava - April 29, 2026

A KCR comeback on the cards? What’s behind BRS founder’s reappearance on political stage

Deepika Amirapu - April 29, 2026

BJP sweeps local body polls in Gujarat, Congress improves tally; AAP fails to pull off 2021 repeat

Purva Chitnis - April 28, 2026

Why Rahul attacked Mamata in West Bengal poll rallies and what it means for INDIA bloc

Esha Mishra - April 28, 2026

Calling Kerala ‘mini Pakistan’ to pouring mud on govt engineer—Nitesh Rane & his rowdy politics

Purva Chitnis - April 28, 2026

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Zero deaths in West Bengal polls departure from bloodied past. Credit goes to CAPF, ECI

ThePrint Team - April 30, 2026

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Ground Reports

Now, 10-minute delivery of fresh air, escape. Delhi’s affair with hidden lakes, secret trails

Manisha Mondal - April 30, 2026

NIMHANS set to bring India’s first digital repository of psychiatric disorders

Soumya Pillai - April 29, 2026

‘Calendar artist’ to Rs 167 cr sale—how Raja Ravi Varma still defines India’s imagination

Sakshi Mehra - April 29, 2026

Punjab farmer who climbed tower says, ‘Don’t want to get into politics, want to do Guru’s seva’

Anushka Srivastava - April 28, 2026

Tele-scope

Newspapers, TV channels hesitate to name a victor in Bengal. ‘Kaante ki takkar’

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2026

Elections

Exit polls bet on LDF upset in Kerala, BJP & DMK return in Assam, Tamil Nadu; edge for BJP in Bengal

Neelam Pandey - April 29, 2026

Global Pulse

Battle for Bengal draws global media gaze & the ‘will India age before it grows wealthy’ question

Vidhi Bhutra - April 29, 2026

India

Ghaziabad high-rise fire: Residents recall the chaos. ‘Tenders had low water pressure, cars blocked way’

Samridhi Tewari - April 30, 2026

Despite 'regular mock drills', fighting the blaze was an uphill task. Fire safety personnel & residents had to deal with obstructions, locked houses & infra issues.

Punjab freight corridor blast probe proceeds apace, explosives & weapons recovered in Tarn Taran

Mayank Kumar - April 30, 2026

Why Uddhav Thackeray has refused a second MLC term

Purva Chitnis - April 30, 2026

Haryana women’s panel chief visits suicide-hit NIT Kurukshetra, cites ‘online gambling, credit card debt’

Sushil Manav - April 29, 2026

Punjab freight corridor saboteur’s past throws up links with Amritpal campaign, Bhindranwale portraits

Mayank Kumar - April 29, 2026

Pink toilets to house tax exemption, BJP makes a women-first pitch for Haryana civic polls

Sushil Manav - April 29, 2026

Charas peddler-turned-MDMA kingpin, Salim Dola dodged justice for over 20 yrs. Now he’s back in the net

+TFP Ananya Bhardwaj - April 29, 2026

World

Tel Aviv-Beirut ceasefire teeters as Hezbollah influence in Lebanon faces new test

Jaydeep Gadhavi - April 30, 2026

Economy

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

Julian Luk - April 29, 2026

Lesson for India from the West: AI is hollowing out white-collar jobs & birthing a new middle-class elite

+TFP Saurabh Mukherjea - April 28, 2026

As govt weighs mandatory silver hallmarking, new report flags economic & operational bottlenecks

Ajay Mathur - April 27, 2026

Strategic petroleum reserves: Why India needs bigger oil buffers & how others compare | Cut The Clutter

Shekhar Gupta | Cut The Clutter - April 25, 2026

RBI cancels Paytm Payments Bank licence citing rule violations

Anup Roy - April 25, 2026

Governance

As govt weighs mandatory silver hallmarking, new report flags economic & operational bottlenecks

Ajay Mathur - April 27, 2026

India’s drug approval system set for big digital overhaul to weed out multiple portals, glitches, delays

Sneha Richhariya - April 25, 2026

‘Romanticising organised crime’: Govt tells Zee5 not to release Lawrence Bishnoi docuseries

Chitleen K Sethi - April 24, 2026

Maharashtra govt to hold Marathi lessons for auto & taxi drivers. Pilot underway, tests from 1 May

Purva Chitnis - April 24, 2026

Readers' Editor

Eight journalists, four states and 1 UT—how ThePrint covered 2026 Assembly elections

Shailaja Bajpai - April 30, 2026

Science

Severe pregnancy vomiting has genetic roots—6 new genes discovered in major study

A new study in Nature Genetics identified six new genes linked to hyperemesis gravidarum — severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy — across European, Asian, African, and Latino ancestries.

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ThePrint Team - April 29, 2026

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