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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
TopicNational Interest

Topic: National Interest

Committee on insecurity

The UPA has to start something imaginative if not disruptive at the top. That is the only way to bring this government back to life.

Pranab, we presume

If Pranab Mukherjee wants the job of being the president, he is not only the natural front-runner, he should have the right of first refusal on it.

Ministry of indefensible

The 4th largest army in the world cannot be run by the CBI and motivated leaks from all sides, but that is where UPA's spineless leadership has brought us to.

The Trivedi tutorial

It will be noted that Dinesh Trivedi will be the first minister to be fired for doing something good, selfless & risky in a system where no minister ever loses the job for stealing.

One Raja in jail, all of UPA in handcuffs

The government may have managed to stay out of jail, in a manner of speaking, but it is caught in multiple wars, all with its own.

Jan Lok Sabha

Before the next Parliamentary session, it is important to analyse the scandals, cover-ups and popular anger around the Lokpal Bill that threatened to collapse the system.

Aam aadmi vs sab chor

The four most important men in the UPA-2 cabinet are entirely clean. And yet, if you held an opinion poll, a vast majority would say corruption is India's biggest challenge today.

The India verdict

L.K. Advani and his partymen have not discovered a new liberal approach to politics. Just like the Congress, they have also figured that India’s politics has changed.

New mandate, new limits

The intellectual Left's sympathy for Maoists is not only strikingly similar to General Musharraf's unsympathetic comments about terrorism in Kashmir, but is also losing relevance.

A week in politics

Pranab Mukherjee's budget marks the UPA-2 government's coming of age, as it backed its own convictions amid pressure from the opposition as well as from within the Congress party.

On Camera

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.