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20% ethanol, 80% anger: BJP’s core voter is furious and looking for answers

Shekhar Gupta - September 5, 2026

While ethanol-blended petrol may be a great idea, it needed 3-4 years of preparation. Now, we have a sugar shortage and surging prices with the festive season upon us. To top it off, we’re bleeding foreign exchange.

Swatantra Bhardwaj: How a 21-yr-old from Patna became digital poster boy of Hindutva ecosystem

Samridhi Tewari - September 5, 2026

How a Hindutva influencer’s ‘skull-cracker’ brag brought CJP & Congress to the same table

Esha Mishra - September 5, 2026

India’s 7.8% GDP number has convinced no one and everyone

Bidisha Bhattacharya - September 5, 2026

SC collegium extends tenure of 6 Calcutta HC judges for 3rd time, gives them 6 months to improve

Bhadra Sinha - September 5, 2026

Ex civil servant Ashish Joshi recalls Delhi Police interrogation—Signal calls, contacts & ‘HM-HS’ X post

Alisha Dutta - September 4, 2026

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Exclusive: Escorts, booze, ‘mujra’—CBI details ‘inducements’ to IAS officers in IDFC public funds scam

Ananya Bhardwaj - September 4, 2026

From China to X: Chinese academics enter India’s foreign policy debate pushing Beijing’s view

Keshav Padmanabhan - September 4, 2026

Dwarka was Delhi’s middle class dream. Now it’s fighting traffic, garbage, water woes daily

Almina Khatoon - September 4, 2026

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Europe’s summer felt like a gamechanger. Will next year be any different?

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In 1st foreign visit as PM, Balen to make case for flash flood-hit Nepal, climate change at UNGA

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‘Reflection of trust’: Modi congratulates Meloni on becoming Italy’s longest-serving postwar PM

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Ruto ousts Tata from century-old soda-ash mineral operation in Kenya

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Opinion

India’s 7.8% GDP number has convinced no one and everyone

Bidisha Bhattacharya - September 5, 2026

The govt's stance appears more robust: the standard practice involves comparing GDP within a single, consistent series, and Subhash Chandra Garg's widely circulated 2.6% figure indeed combines two different series.

India’s GDP may be strong—global inflation, debt and war could change the picture

Swasti Rao - September 4, 2026

Pope Leo XIV gets India. Rome shouldn’t listen to India only when Christians are threatened

Riccardo Benotti - September 4, 2026

Do feminists ever retire? Gloria Steinem died fighting last century’s battles

Rama Lakshmi - September 4, 2026

Water backlash is hitting India’s data centre boom. Learn from paper mills and the Dutch

Rwitwika Bhattacharya - September 4, 2026

Dear Rahul Gandhi, your smash patriarchy push must cover Kerala cleric on Muslim women too

Amana Begam - September 4, 2026

India joined SCO’s Iran statement. It must ensure China-Russia agenda doesn’t shape BRICS

Seshadri Chari - September 4, 2026

Features

Why ISRO chose GSLV Mk-II over its trusted workhorse PSLV to launch EOS-05

Soumya Pillai - September 4, 2026

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Politics

How a Hindutva influencer’s ‘skull-cracker’ brag brought CJP & Congress to the same table

Esha Mishra - September 5, 2026

The Congress has kept the CJP at an arm’s length so far. Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj booked under SC/ST Act and POCSO.

A tyring moment for TVK: 1st time MLA wants tyre factory shut in her constituency. But it does not exist

Shweta Tripathi - September 4, 2026

The curious delay in the Amruta Fadnavis blackmail case: 3 years on, court still awaits forensic reports

Apoorva Mandhani - September 4, 2026

OP Rajbhar 9th in list of UP ministers upset with top officers; seeks removal of principal secy, director

Prashant Srivastava - September 4, 2026

Oppn ridicules BJP as Nitin Nabin welcomes Russian envoy Alipov with Rasputin playing in background

Esha Mishra - September 3, 2026

Haldwani ‘shuddhikaran’ row: Kharge seeks FIR, questions Nadda over delayed action

Esha Mishra - September 3, 2026

Vijay govt to drop cases against farmers & teachers in Tamil Nadu, opposition DMK questions intent

Shweta Tripathi - September 2, 2026

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Nepal tunnel rescue is a story of hope amid the disaster. This is the power of collaboration

ThePrint Team - September 4, 2026

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Ground Reports

Dwarka was Delhi’s middle class dream. Now it’s fighting traffic, garbage, water woes daily

Almina Khatoon - September 4, 2026

17 days, 14 demands. How Pune tribal students made Maharashtra listen

Kasturi Walimbe - September 3, 2026

Bengaluru startup builds India’s 1st private nuclear fusion tokamak. Next step is a reactor

Soumya Pillai - September 3, 2026

Harish Rana’s eyes now belong to someone else after euthanasia. His parents long to meet them

Vitasta Kaul - September 2, 2026

Diplomacy

After Nepal’s call for ‘compensation’, India says developed countries should take lead on climate change

Keshav Padmanabhan - September 4, 2026

Walk the Talk

Caste riots & an all-woman railway coach: Gloria Steinem’s most ‘transformative’ experiences in India

Shekhar Gupta | Walk The Talk - September 4, 2026

Go To Pakistan

Pakistan’s war on terror gets a new weapon—trials without names, faces or scrutiny

Debdutta Chakraborty - September 4, 2026

India

Swatantra Bhardwaj: How a 21-yr-old from Patna became digital poster boy of Hindutva ecosystem

Samridhi Tewari - September 5, 2026

Earlier this week, Bhardwaj admitted on a podcast that he “cracked open” a man’s skull during the CJP protest, but no action was taken against him.

Ex civil servant Ashish Joshi recalls Delhi Police interrogation—Signal calls, contacts & ‘HM-HS’ X post

Alisha Dutta - September 4, 2026

Phuket-Delhi flight altitude scare: Air India fires pilot who failed drug test

Esha Mishra - September 4, 2026

Exclusive: Escorts, booze, ‘mujra’—CBI details ‘inducements’ to IAS officers in IDFC public funds scam

+TFP Ananya Bhardwaj - September 4, 2026

Manjit Singh Bedi arrested in Punjab. Grocery store owner on FBI’s Most Wanted for ‘defrauding US govt’

Samridhi Tewari - September 4, 2026

Haryana transfers Karnal IG and SP weeks after Ror community’s ‘fake encounter’ protests

Sushil Manav - September 4, 2026

Shooting champion Ankur Mittal among 7 sportspersons appointed as HCS, HPS officers in Haryana

Sushil Manav - September 4, 2026

Environment

North Pakistan communities are marrying glaciers to make new ones

Janaki Pande - September 4, 2026

Gilgit-Baltistan contains the Earth’s third largest ice reserves after the Polar regions. The landscape has over 5,000 glaciers from a few meters to nearly 70-km long.

Economy

India’s key money market gets unusually quiet at the start of trade

Bhaskar Dutta - September 4, 2026

India’s GDP data, new methodology & the arguments: CEA V Anantha Nageswaran on CutTheClutter

Shekhar Gupta | Cut The Clutter - September 4, 2026

HDFC Bank is at risk of losing its top Nifty spot to rival ICICI

Ashutosh Joshi - September 3, 2026

India’s rupee gains as RBI capital-raising measures bring in bumper $136 billion

Bhaskar Dutta - September 3, 2026

LPG consumption falls 16% as govt steps up piped gas push amid energy supply disruptions

Udit Bubna - September 3, 2026

Governance

Haryana transfers Karnal IG and SP weeks after Ror community’s ‘fake encounter’ protests

Sushil Manav - September 4, 2026

Forging consensus: CM Shivakumar sets up 10-member GoM to discuss key matters before they reach cabinet

Sharan Poovanna - September 4, 2026

Vijay govt plans new integrated Assembly-Secretariat complex in Chennai, 4 sites under consideration

Shweta Tripathi - September 4, 2026

Vijay’s big sporting bet: Chennai set for new Olympic City, Motor Sports City to nurture young talent

Shweta Tripathi - September 4, 2026

Global Pulse

Global media delves into Naidu’s ‘dizzying’ Amaravati dream & a chink in India’s internet boom

Vidhi Bhutra - September 4, 2026

Science

What is cryospheric glue? A mix of ice, soil, sediment that holds mountains together

When land remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years, a permafrost forms, and cryospheric glue seeps into the pores and cracks between soil or rocks.

Around Town

Billionaire Ajay Piramal wants people to have an ‘owner’s mindset’, take risks in business

Kasturi Walimbe - September 4, 2026

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