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ASI spent 25% of its last 5 yrs’ excavation budget on Gujarat, 94% of it on Modi’s hometown Vadnagar

Between 2020 and 2024, ASI conducted excavations at 58 sites across 17 states at a cost of Rs 34.81 cr. Of this, Rs 8.53 cr was allocated to Gujarat, an analysis by ThePrint found.

‘Older than history,’ but slowly changing — Banaras after the Gyanvapi puja

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Could Vadnagar rewrite history? 3,000-yr-old Gujarat town holds clues to India’s ‘dark age’

India’s oldest living town Vadnagar survived climate shifts, invasions, and falls of empires. Solving the mystery of its first settlers could debunk India’s ‘dark age’ theory.

Modi & Shah wrest their hometowns from Congress, lotus blooms again in Gujarat’s Unjha & Mansa

Dubbed as prestige battle, Kiritkumar Keshavlal Patel & JS Patel ensure double delight for BJP. A first-time candidate, Kiritkumar records win margin of 51,000-plus votes in Unjha.

Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Zoroastrian images: Modi’s boyhood school in Vadnagar gets new ‘old’ look

The restored primary school will host selected students from across India to attend a week-long course on art, culture & history, and ‘take inspiration from Modi’s life’.

After 2017 embarrassment, Gujarat BJP banks on a Bhagwat confidant to win Modi’s home ground

Vadnagar falls under Unjha constituency, which Congress wrested from five-time BJP MLA in 2017 Gujarat polls. This time, BJP is fielding an electoral newcomer but RSS old-timer.

My birthplace Vadnagar once helped Rewa’s famous musician Tansen: PM Modi in Madhya Pradesh

Addressing a rally in Rewa, Modi said he has a relation with the land of Vindhya which belongs to white tigers and Tansen's musical notes.

Jai Sardar, Jai Bhawani, Jai Bheem: Rahul tries it all on Modi’s home turf

Patidars, Thakor Sena and Dalits throng Rahul Gandhi’s election meetings in Vadnagar and Vijapur in Mehsana district of Gujarat

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Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.