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The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding — the US-Iran agreement brokered by Pakistan to end the 2026 conflict, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and launch negotiations on Iran's…
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The ₹11,718 Crore Data Exercise That Will Rewrite India When enumerators fan out across India in 2026, backed by a newly approved ₹11,718 crore budget, they will be conducting…
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India is embarking on its most expensive and politically explosive demographic exercise to date. After a half-decade of administrative paralysis and pandemic-induced delays, the…
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The Demographic Paradox In 2026, the institutional architecture of the world's largest democracy is scheduled for a seismic, mathematically inevitable shock. The impending…
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Benami Politics In Indian real estate, benami means buying property in someone else's name. On paper, it belongs to them. In reality, it belongs to you. Parliament passed the…
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What Was Found, and Where On Saturday morning, June 6, 2026, the Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police — now operating under the new BJP-led state government —…
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On June 5, 2026, the Bharatiya Janata Party officially accepted the resignation of K. Annamalai, its former Tamil Nadu state president, from the party's primary membership. The…
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No Ceasefire in Cyberspace The ships are moving through Hormuz. The bombs have stopped. The MOU has been signed. The war, by every kinetic measure, is over. But Israel's national…
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On Tuesday, June 2, the Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Union School Education Secretary will walk into the Parliament House Annexe to answer…
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The Era of Executive Memos The architecture of India’s digital public square is being aggressively rewritten. Yet, this transformation is not occurring through rigorous…
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The Bengal Story: A Defeat That Refuses to Be Defeat Mamata Banerjee lost. The numbers are not in dispute. The BJP has become the first right-wing party to be elected in West…
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Somewhere in Chennai, on the morning of May 6, 2026, a phone call was made. We don't know exactly who dialled first. We don't know exactly who said yes. But we know what was…
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Structural Friction: The Math Behind the Howrah Unrest As the BJP's 150+ seat victory triggers an institutional shift, Howrah has become a flashpoint for transition friction. We…
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Six Changes. Three Cost You More. One Saves You Money. Two Require Action. Every July 1 brings a fresh set of regulatory and financial changes. Most coverage lists them. The…
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In Kuzhumur, a village in Ariyalur district most of India had not heard of until September 2017, a seventeen-year-old named Shanmugam Anitha had spent her school career proving…
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has launched a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi government over a fresh wave of fuel price increases, framing the relentless, incremental…
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For most of the past month, the conversation around CBSE's botched digital evaluation has been about everything except the company that built it. Wrong answer sheets. Broken…
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The story of India's examination crisis is usually told as a sequence of separate scandals — a leak here, a postponement there, a Supreme Court hearing in between. Told that way,…
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The National Testing Agency has issued the revised schedule for the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate admissions, CUET-UG 2026, after the papers originally…
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