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Friday, January 9, 2026
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Topic: Modi

Modi’s India lost an opportunity by hosting SCO summit online with Xi, Putin, Sharif

PM Modi could have used the chance to deliver some homilies about Democracy over One-Party Dictatorship

SubscriberWrites: Modi placed a ten before Subrahmanyam Jaishankar & then made him a hundred

S. Jaishankar’s appointment by PM Modi was like the Manmohan Singh moment for his premiership

‘Aimed at polls’: NCP takes swipe at Modi for UCC push, but is ‘neither for nor against’ it as of now

NCP working president Praful Patel asks why BJP is suddenly showing interest in UCC after 'doing nothing on this front in last 9 yrs', says govt should have held 'wider consultations'.

‘Will fight tooth and nail,’ says Muslim board after Modi’s UCC pitch in poll-bound MP

The AIMPLB held an emergency online meeting late on Tuesday night, and have drawn up a draft to present to the Law Commission.

Release of terrorist in Manipur means surrendering state authority

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Vajpayee’s loss in 2004 should be a warning to Modi. Global acclaim won’t win elections

It is precisely good macro numbers and foreign praise that I submit is a cause for worry. They were not vote-winners in 2004. They may not be now.

India is ready to take stock of tech trade with US. But ‘strategic convergence’ is must

India and the US must de-jargonise the notion of ‘trust’ in technology, which features prominently in the iCET, in the Quad and in other strategic initiatives.

Tesla just can’t ignore India now. Don’t go by the length of Modi-Musk meeting

If Tesla enters India with a full-fledged factory, it could completely upend its luxury car market with the Model Y and Model X.

White House says Biden won’t ‘lecture’ Modi on human rights amid ongoing concerns

Washington wants India to be a strategic counterweight to China while Modi is seeking to raise the influence that his country, now the world's most populous, has on the world stage.

On Camera

Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

2025: Pakistan’s deadliest year in over a decade

Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.