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Reconciliation in the Pawar family; discord in Mahayuti

30-04-2025

There is a big buzz in western Maharashtra about how NCP founder Sharad Pawar has chosen to not criticise the BJP-led NDA government over many subjects, including the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, the fall of the Indian currency against the dollar, and the recent security-related issues.

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Age no bar, Vaibhav proves that with a brilliant knock

30-04-2025

Vaibhav Suryavanshi has taken the cricket world by storm by playing arguably the most astonishing knock ever played by a 14-year-old in the history of the game. The sheer intensity, scale and audacity of the innings by Vaibhav, who smashed a monumental hundred off just 35 balls and, in the process, became the youngest T20 centurion in history, has also now stirred a hornet’s nest about what exactly is the right age to initiate a player into professional sport.

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Tearing up the treaties might work more in favour of India

29-04-2025

In the aftermath of the cold-blooded massacre of tourists in Pahalgam by terrorists owing allegiance to a Lashkar-e-Toiba affiliate, both India and Pakistan targeted long-standing treaties which govern river flows and the effective border between the two countries.

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Sonia, Rahul arrest may prove to be a risky gambit for Modi

29-04-2025

The Pahalgam terror attack may have overshadowed it and put things on hold for now, but the day may not be far when the Tihar jail authorities have to make special arrangements for their new VIP guests—the Gandhi family.

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National Herald manoeuvre isn’t internal matter of Cong

28-04-2025

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on April 9, filed a prosecution complaint against senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Sam Pitroda, and others in an alleged money laundering case related to the Associated Journals Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper.
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Why are the thinking people leaving religion worldwide?

28-04-2025

We were all humans until: Religion separated us, Politics divided us, Wealth classified us and Race disconnected us.” In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised.

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People have a different view on economy than economists

26-04-2025

India will be ending FY25 with a growth rate of 6.5%, which is quite impressive. The two lacunae, if they are to be called so, during the year were the tepid growth in consumption and private sector investment (which was not broad-based but sector-specific).

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Absolute power brings about absolute arrogance, contempt

26-04-2025

Lord John Dalberg Acton had said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He said this in 1887. Today, it can be said that power also brings about arrogance, and absolute power brings about absolute arrogance. Along with arrogance comes contempt for dissenting voices. This has been observed in India, the United States and many other countries.

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The Indian woman: Living a life one small feat at a time

25-04-2025

Great ideas often visit us when our minds are at their dullest and our hearts at their faintest. We acknowledge a stark reality of everyday life, wherein a feat is all about managing to accomplish the ordinary and holding on to it.

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Is the Thackeray reunion a bid to secure family legacy?

25-04-2025

If we fail to reunite, future generations will not forgive us,” went a line in the editorial of Saamna, the official newspaper of the Shiv Sena for decades now with Uddhav Thackeray.

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Keep your friends real close, but your enemies closer

24-04-2025

The Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, causing at least 28 casualties, mirrors the Pulwama massacre six years ago. With Article 370 abrogated and Jammu and Kashmir split into two union territories, the Modi government has been claiming that Pakistan is deterred and terrorism contained, if not eliminated. The latest attack undermines that narrative, despite recent peaceful local elections in J&K.

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Yet another massacre in the killing fields of Pahalgam

24-04-2025

The repeated assurances given by Home Minister Amit Shah that normality had returned to Kashmir seemed to have been blown aside when a group of terrorists gunned down a large number of tourists in the meadows of Baisaran, located seven kms from Pahalgam, leaving 28 dead and several questions unanswered.