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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Marathas

Maratha forts, Khudiram Bose & Shubhanshu Shukla—highlights of PM Modi’s latest ‘Mann ki Baat’

In the 124th edition of the radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat', Prime Minister Modi also termed the first grassland bird survey in Assam's Kaziranga as 'a significant milestone'.

How was the great Tanjore Renaissance born? When the British took over Maharaja Serfoji’s land

In 'Gods, Guns and Missionaries', Manu Pillai describes how the British Raj led to the birth of Hindu nationalism in India.

Babur, Akbar, and Abdali—the losses Panipat doesn’t want to battle anymore

From crumbling memorials to misplaced narratives, Panipat's historic battlefields bear witness to a legacy of defeat—and the struggle to reclaim it.

Why Maratha reservation crisis shows a deadlock in Indian political imagination

In the field of higher education, Marathas could neither compete with the upper castes nor with the Dalits.

Union minister Ramdas Athawale calls for caste-based census

Addressing tribals in Maharashtra's Palghar district Saturday, the union minister also demanded that Marathas be given reservation without disturbing quota for other castes and communities.

Panipat was a bloody military debacle for Marathas. Will patriotism-high India see the film?

Panipat, releasing 6 December, the day Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya, is about battle that Amit Shah said ‘paved way for foreigners to enter India’.

Village at centre of Bhima-Koregaon violence is peaceful, but uneasy

Since clashes over a piece of history involving Dalits and Marathas, the village of Vadhu Budruk has lived under constant police presence. 

16% quota for Marathas gets unanimous thumbs-up from Maharashtra assembly

Bill specifies that new quota will not affect the 52 per cent reservation existing for OBCs, SCs, STs and others. Move comes 5 months ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.