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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicGeneration Nowhere

Topic: Generation Nowhere

‘Hi, I’m calling from…’ – Why tele-calling is a hit among India’s youth desperate for a job

For many first-generation educated Indians, tele-caller jobs are the easiest to get – even if it means being paid pittance for day-long calls about loans, phones, modelling.

‘Overage’ at 21, rural India’s Army aspirants are running for their lives — and out of time

Making a living, manliness, marriage — all hinges on the Army for many in Rajasthan and Haryana’s military-obsessed belts. But no recruitments in 2 years means boys are aging out.

‘Sold goats to buy him a phone’: How 31 youth from 1 Bihar village were nabbed for cybercrime

Amid the scrubby farmlands of Thalpos village in Nawada, dozens of youth used their smartphones to run a cybercrime enterprise until the police swooped in. What went wrong here?

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.