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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: United Kingdom

A tale of two proposals: Contentious bills driving politics in UK and Hong Kong

Britain's House of Commons has passed the ‘Brexit delay’ proposal and Hong Kong protestors have dismissed withdrawal of the extradition bill as 'too little and too late'.

Forcible retirement of erring central officers welcome, but due process must be followed

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Conservative rebels defeat British PM’s Brexit gamble. What happened in there

Around 21 legislators from Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party aligned with the Labour Party to prevent the British PM from taking UK out of the European Union without a formal agreement.

Mecca of parliamentary democracy in ‘constitutional coup’ as Boris Johnson suspends House

Britain PM Boris Johnson shuts down parliament for 5 weeks, leaving just a couple of weeks for MPs to discuss Brexit plans before the 31 October deadline.

Katju on how UK’s ‘anti-India’, Karkaria on `universal’ identity crisis, Muzzafar Ali on Khayyam

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Boris rebranded: The making of Britain’s Prime Minister

A media star with a gift for comedy, Boris Johnson won fame and fans among the British public in a way few politicians ever achieve.

Priti Patel appointed as Britain’s first Indian-origin home secretary

Priti Patel is one of three Indian-origin ministers to make up new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet.

Winston Churchill — war criminal, enemy of humanity & decency

Churchill's principal victims were Indians. He fantasised about having Mahatma Gandhi tied to the ground and trampled upon by elephants.

Three Indian-origin students named among Time’s 25 most influential teens of 2018

Kavya Kopparapu, Rishab Jain, and Amika George were named for spearheading development in the field of health.

Bipin Chandra Pal: As much a revolutionary in politics, as in his private life

Bipin Chandra Pal, who was born on 7 November 1858, is best known as a part of the radical freedom-fighter trio Lal-Bal-Pal.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?