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TopicUrban Naxal

Topic: Urban Naxal

SubscriberWrites: Naxal-free India needs Naxal-free universities

Urban Naxalism is shifting from forests to campuses. Universities must counter extremist ideologies, promote critical thinking, and build resilient, nation-focused youth.

Firearms, forests & fugitives constant in Bollywood’s Naxal films—politics keep changing

From Ghaath and Bastar: A Naxal Story to Newton and Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Indian filmmakers keep coming back to Naxal themes. Who’s the hero or villain depends on who’s telling the story and when.

‘Urban Naxals stalled Narmada project’, Modi tells environment ministers, urges faster clearances

PM asserts environment ministry's role is more than a mere regulator. It is necessary to remember that development will be faster if green clearance is available promptly, he adds.

From RBI & CBI to #MeToo & Rafale, here are the top 10 newsmakers of 2018

ThePrint looks at those who were in the news this year, for right or wrong reasons

Narendra Modi’s ‘urban Naxals’ jibe works like a charm in Chhattisgarh for Congress

Jagdalpur, where Narendra Modi had labeled the Congress ‘urban Naxal’ sympathisers, is among the five seats BJP won in 2013 but lost this year.

I am not an ‘urban naxal’, Mr Mohandas Pai. I am just a student

We are none of the hashtags you throw at us. We are normal people who are citizens of this country.

Congress is ‘breaking India’ while the BJP is ‘making India’, says Amit Shah

BJP president says that the difference between Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi is that the former follows the party and the latter leads the party.

Rising fuel prices leave common man worried, and Congress has Brahmin DNA

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

BJP leaders’ demand for men’s rights, and fuel prices up again

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.