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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicCell tower

Topic: cell tower

Stuck in time — no mobile network, river & jungle only route to Indo-Nepal border villages

Six villages on India-Nepal border in UP's Bahraich — Bharthapur, Kartaniya, Amba, Bardiya, Fakirpuri, and Bisunapur — remain cut off from dreams of digital India & development.

‘No tower, no power’, polling officers on boats — many struggles of UP border villages going to polls

Villagers threaten to boycott polls if they don't get mobile phone network. It's also an issue for polling & security officials, who'll need wireless headsets to relay information.

Why are TV towers so terrifying? It’s more than fear of heights—they symbolise our anxiety

A steel cell tower or sleek 5G box is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a visible sign of global communication networks gradually eroding our autonomy.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.