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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicCaste-based discrimination

Topic: Caste-based discrimination

‘Hounded for entering temple, denied leave to meet dying father’—Haryana IPS’s ‘final note’ on seniors

Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who died allegedly by suicide, names 15 serving & retired officers in his ‘note’, says FIR against his gunman was attempt to eventually trap him.

I once supported SC quota for ‘Dalit’ Muslims and Christians, but here’s why I don’t anymore

Caste-based discrimination is common across South Asia, but untouchability exists primarily within Hinduism. Muslims and Christians practising untouchability contradict the tenets of their religions.

MP govt’s ‘sensitive approach’ & ‘double engine session’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.