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BJP supporters hold party flags during an election campaign in the Budgam constituency for the byelections at Mirgund, Budgam district, Central Kashmir, on November 8, 2025. A representational photograph.

Booked one after another, BJP’s Kashmir leaders face fraud, extortion trail

Tukaram Mundhe, Commissioner of the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA), addresses the media during a press conference in Mumbai, August 20, 2026.

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Raghuram Rajan at a book launch in Chennai on January 6, 2024.

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The former RBI governor cautions India against industrial policy, arguing that its jobs crisis cannot be solved by manufacturing alone. India must invest in education, skills and a skilled, blue-collar services revolution.

When a flood crosses three countries, why can’t South Asia’s disaster plans?

The surge and its shadow

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Demonstrators taking part in the Reservation Hatao Andolan Jan-Jagran rally organised near the Vidhan Bhavan in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on July 30, 2026.

Caste in the season of the cockroaches

The CJP’s strength lies in its cross-caste Gen Z coalition united by anger over the broken education system. The growing anti-reservation movement could weaken that coalition by reviving caste divisions and pulling general category students away.

K.P. Kumaran’s Adhithi challenged conventional ideas of family, marriage, desire, and social morality in Malayalam cinema.

Adhithi: The 1974 film that put the ‘happy’ out of the Malayali family

Director K.P. Kumaran used a troubled middle-class family to explore female desire and a woman’s attempt to leave a dead marriage. The film’s failure showed how strongly it challenged the sexual and moral rules of its time.

Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, addresses a press conference at Indira Bhawan in New Delhi, on August 29, 2026.

Why the Manusmriti row exposes the myth of Hindu unity

Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the “Manusmriti mentality” has provoked anger from dominant-caste Hindus but little from Dalits—revealing how unevenly the text is actually claimed.

Lift-off of ISRO Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) heavy-lift rocket at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, on December 24, 2025.

Is ISRO losing what it needs to lead?

The government is asking ISRO to focus on its hardest missions while allowing the infrastructure and expertise needed for those missions to move out of its control.

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An aerial view shows houses deluged in sludge following flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality, along the confluence of the Trishuli and Tadi rivers in Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 27, 2026.

Nepal floods leave a trail of death and devastation

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Cockroach Janta Party supporters sitting beside a poster of mainstream television anchors during a mass youth-led protest over exam irregularities at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 24, 2026.

A generation that television can no longer command

Students in Patna on August 25, during a march from Gandhi Maidan to Raj Bhavan demanding the cancellation of the 70th BPSC examination.

Bihar’s job aspirants run out of patience

As BPSC protests turn violent in Patna, economists and opposition leaders point to two decades of stalled recruitment behind the anger.

An attendee wears an American flag pin and a cross necklace during a Republican special primary runoff election watch party in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, on August 25, 2026. Beneath America’s polished consumer culture lies widening class inequality, elite privilege, and a political system that serves wealth and power. (Image is for representational purposes only)

Return of the Ugly American

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay felicitated by farmers opposed to the Parandur project, after the government announced its cancellation, in Chennai, on August 25.

Tamil Nadu decision to cancel Parandur airport project invites praise and criticism

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