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Indians prayed for Thai cave rescue, but why no outrage for Meghalaya’s trapped miners?

ThePrint Team -
Rescue workers have been trying to reach the coal miners trapped in east Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya since 13 December. The rescue team has...

No one is bothered because we are poor, say families of trapped Meghalaya miners

Moushumi Das Gupta -
It has been over a week since waters from a river flooded an illegal Meghalaya mine, trapping at least 15 people inside.

15 feared dead in coal mine: Come to Meghalaya to see just how ineffective NGT ban can be

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Coal mining is said to be a big revenue generator for Meghalaya, where the collapse of an illegal mine this month left 15 people feared dead.

13 trapped in Meghalaya coal mine feared dead as rescue efforts over 5 days remain futile

PTI -
5 days on, Meghalaya's effort to trace trapped miners fails to yield results 13 miners are reportedly trapped in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district.

Meghalaya HC judge does about-turn on ‘Hindu nation’ after CPI(M) threatens impeachment

Ritika Jain -
Justice S.R. Sen says secularism is one of Indian Constitution's basic structure – after CPI(M) said it was considering impeaching him.

Governor Tathagata Roy targets Gandhi, blames Nehru for Bengal’s high Muslim population

Ruhi Tewari -
During an interview on Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Tathagata Roy claims Gandhi conspired against Netaji, says Nehru-Liaquat pact ‘bordered on stupidity’.

Senior Meghalaya police official says state emerging as heroin distribution centre

PTI -
Davis Marak says many players are involved in the drug trafficking in Meghalaya, with Shillong as the transit point.

When the marginalised strike back: Lessons to learn from Shillong

Patricia Mukhim -
Fake news, lack of decisive police action and breakdown of local institutions led to the Shillong incident. The city can ignore all this and its minorities at its peril

Fear and suspicion in Shillong: How civic and political apathy led to a fractured society

Sankalita Dey -
After a week of violence, calm has returned to Shillong. But for how long? The root cause of the communal flare-up is yet to be addressed.

No fresh violence in Shillong, curfew relaxed for 7 hours in ‘vulnerable’ areas

PTI -
Shillong authorities say they will examine the possibility of relaxing night curfew imposed in the Meghalaya capital.
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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

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With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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