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Sunday, July 27, 2025
TopicNational Interest

Topic: National Interest

The bomb and the bombast

Our nuclear power plants are inefficient, super-expensive and are behind targets on most parameters. The excuse, always, is sanctions and denial of technology. That must end now.

Incredible India’s junk yards

You can go around the country, from Hampi to Bodhgaya, and from the Taj Mahal to the Jagannath temple in Puri, and find the same story of callousness and neglect repeated.

Mumbai shanghaied to Patna

You cannot deny that demolitions are inhuman, and reasonable rehabilitation is a fair demand. But should there be no punishment for anybody for allowing encroachments in the first place?

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.