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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicGurugram flooding

Topic: gurugram flooding

Our take on SCO summit, Rahul Gandhi’s Bihar yatra, and GST reforms—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Noida wins this round in the NCR floods. Gurugram loses

The Noida Vs Gurugram rivalry is playing out online, with Noida residents thumbing their noses while many in Gurugram concede that the grass is, indeed, greener on the other side.

Floods bring out the Great Gurugram Divide. Old city calls out ‘stepmotherly treatment’

Rain flooded all of Gurugram, but the old city fared worse with potholed roads, cramped lanes, crowded houses and failing drains. ‘The potholes have roads,’ said a frustrated resident.

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

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.