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‘No place for violence in democracy,’ Atishi condemns attack on Delhi CM Rekha Gupta

Earlier on Wednesday, the Chief Minister was attacked during a weekly Jan Sunvai event at her residence in the national capital.

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta attacked during ‘Jan Sunwai’ at residence, probe underway

Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, in an official statement, condemned the attack on the chief minister. Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav also termed the incident 'unfortunate'

Slaps, sex & saas-bahu—what Hindi TV serials say about ‘traditional family values’

The joint family, the parivaar, is dressed up and then layer after layer of emotional atyachaar is stripped bare, exposing the ploys, the plots, and tricks of its members.

A ‘tight slap’ only exists in Indian English. Everywhere else, they hit ‘hard’

In his book 'Mind it!: A Tongue-in-Cheek Look at How Indian English Can Amuse and Even Confuse', Sandeep Nulkar chronicles the uniqueness of Indian English words and phrases and the amusing reasons they came to be.

Bigg Boss going soft on Armaan Malik’s slap is a new low. Salman wouldn’t have let it slide

YouTuber Armaan Malik was given a free pass after he slapped Bigg Boss OTT-3 co-contestant Vishal Pandey. The reason: Pandey called Malik’s wife ‘beautiful’.

YSRCP MLA detained at home after slapping voter at polling booth & getting it back in kind

Voter standing in queue at booth in Ithanagar locality in Tenali objected to MLA jumping queue-line to cast ballot. Clip shows MLA’s men pounced on man & raining blows on him.

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Hindu leaders have been backward-looking. It started with Gandhi

Indian leaders take pride in 'persons of Indian origin' who run American companies. They forget that this is the result of Macaulay’s vision.

Underlining sluggish exports, NITI Aayog flags need to jump-start India’s automotive market

Govt think tank flags India’s skewed auto export mix, warns domestic focus and high tariffs are limiting its global footprint; also highlights how auto components are a bright spot.

S-300, Su-30 jets, T-72 tanks: Inventory of Venezuela’s largely Russian-origin arsenal

Venezuela also boasts of a diverse portfolio of unmanned aerial vehicles capable of carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance and being employed for kinetic purposes as well.

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.