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Sword of Hasina hangs over Bangladesh’s India policy as Tarique juggles pro & anti India powerplay

Keshav Padmanabhan - August 20, 2026

Strain in ties since Hasina ouster has become a lightning rod for Bangladeshi politicians. Divide is not just between BNP & Oppn in Dhaka, but also within ruling establishment.

SC ex-judge to head 5-member panel probing ‘police excesses’ during CJP protest march

Bhadra Sinha - August 20, 2026

Kingpin in Dubai, fake drugs in Bengaluru—Karnataka govt sets up SIT to probe ‘inter-state’ racket

Sharan Poovanna - August 20, 2026

Under Pakistan’s new defence Act, CDF Asim Munir can hire, fire and retire armed forces personnel

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 20, 2026

A man must earn Rs 25 lakh to be ‘marriage-ready,’ say 55% of India’s techies

Himanshi Aggarwal - August 20, 2026

Tukaram Mundhe shows food is a big issue in India. Just not in the way BJP thought it was

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Tejpal to Brij Bhushan, no ‘perfect victim’: How courts judge survivor’s conduct after sexual assault

Ruchi Bhattar - August 20, 2026

Gurukuls, Nalanda, madrasas: India’s ‘traditional’ education was never for everyone

Anirudh Kanisetti - August 20, 2026

Meet the men chasing monkeys with langur calls at the badminton World Cup in Delhi

Manisha Mondal - August 20, 2026

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SUVs line up at Secretariat for Tamil Nadu MLAs to pick from day after CM Vijay’s announcement

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How Gen Z protests in Delhi have fired up Gen Alpha in UP

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Jadavpur University violence: ABVP-SFI clash over general body meet leaves campus on the boil

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Jharkhand HC stays Soren govt’s order cancelling 11th and 13th JPSC Exams

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Opinion

Indian courts are using AI without accountability. SC already caught one fake case law

Angela Lusigi - August 20, 2026

Transformation without accountability is another way of failing people, only faster and at scale. Courts should therefore resist a race to adopt AI for its own sake.

Tukaram Mundhe shows food is a big issue in India. Just not in the way BJP thought it was

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Vir Sanghvi - August 20, 2026

What TV media and newspapers saw in PM Modi’s Dimagi Naxals remark

Shailaja Bajpai - August 20, 2026

What Indian universities can learn from OpenAI agents that ‘cheated’ to hack Hugging Face

Dinesh Singh - August 20, 2026

Gurukuls, Nalanda, madrasas: India’s ‘traditional’ education was never for everyone

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Anirudh Kanisetti - August 20, 2026

Indian politicians need to learn to take a joke

Mukund Padmanabhan - August 19, 2026

India’s states announce policies but don’t make documents public. It’s bad for business

Aryan D'Rozario - August 19, 2026

Features

An MIT professor-led startup wants to solve India’s drinking water problem—with a tap filter

Janaki Pande - August 20, 2026

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Politics

SUVs line up at Secretariat for Tamil Nadu MLAs to pick from day after CM Vijay’s announcement

Shweta Tripathi - August 20, 2026

CM Vijay announced Wednesday that TVK-led govt will buy new official vehicles for all MLAs. DMK has criticised move, but its MLAs are yet to state whether they would accept or decline the cars.

Baba ji, don’t dream about my jawaani—Kangana hits out at Baba Ramdev after he slams ‘gen gutter’ remark

Neelam Pandey - August 19, 2026

‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in 800 cities & nationwide protests on ‘chanda chori’, CWC decides in meeting

Apoorva Mandhani - August 19, 2026

Hits, misses & criticism: 100-day report card of Vijay’s TVK govt in Tamil Nadu

Shweta Tripathi - August 19, 2026

Chinese encroachment to Ram temple, Kharge launches all-out attack on Modi govt at CWC meet

Apoorva Mandhani - August 19, 2026

Non-veg or jackfruit? BJP chief Nabin’s Andhra meal triggers row, Congress asks ‘what about Sawan?’

Neelam Pandey - August 19, 2026

BJP’s Guna MLA refers to Sita as ‘maut ka saman’, says only men have died in wars

Neelam Pandey - August 19, 2026

Diplomacy

Bangladesh open to joining Mecca pact considering its own interests—Foreign Affairs Adviser Humayun Kabir

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 20, 2026

On PM Tarique Rahman possibly visiting India, he said ‘there is no justification for rushing into a top-level visit by going beyond the national interest’.

Ground Reports

Meet the men chasing monkeys with langur calls at the badminton World Cup in Delhi

Manisha Mondal - August 20, 2026

A Mumbai teen’s mission is helping workers register on e-Shram. Govt site is daunting

Kasturi Walimbe - August 19, 2026

Own a flat, but have no say. Gurugram residents are fighting for RWA membership

Almina Khatoon - August 18, 2026

How sewer deaths scar families for years

Vitasta Kaul - August 17, 2026

Entertainment

Tom Alter’s last film Dial 1975 releasing 9 yrs after his death. It’s set in the Emergency

Harsh Tiwari - August 20, 2026

Health

Kingpin in Dubai, fake drugs in Bengaluru—Karnataka govt sets up SIT to probe ‘inter-state’ racket

Sharan Poovanna - August 20, 2026

Tele-scope

What TV media and newspapers saw in PM Modi’s Dimagi Naxals remark

Shailaja Bajpai - August 20, 2026

India

Jadavpur University violence: ABVP-SFI clash over general body meet leaves campus on the boil

Alisha Dutta - August 20, 2026

Several students injured after dispute between ABVP & SFI. Police say they entered campus & ‘removed outsiders’, adding that some injured students are being treated in nearby hospitals.

Nalgonda principal murder: How her last words, blood-stained Rs 500 notes led police to 2 juveniles

Deepika Amirapu - August 20, 2026

Gen Alpha protests jolt Yogi govt, CMO directs senior officials to address schoolkids’ complaints

Prashant Srivastava - August 20, 2026

‘Sexual assault’, Mayfair address—why Choksi, Nirav’s lawyer Vijay Aggarwal was arrested in London

Samridhi Tewari - August 20, 2026

Rahul, Priyanka cheer mother’s memoir. ‘Papa smiling at his beautiful Sonia’

Almina Khatoon - August 20, 2026

Specific conditions unnamed, heads from RPwD Act missing: What Census 2027 disability form leaves out

Vrinda Tulsian - August 20, 2026

Managed Rs 20 cr, way beyond income: ED’s fresh allegations against Pinarayi’s daughter Veena

Mayank Kumar - August 20, 2026

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Ramdev’s outburst against exam scams is a cry for attention. He should inhale deeply, enjoy FMCG empire

ThePrint Team - August 20, 2026

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Economy

NITI Aayog wants India to reimagine skilling, pitches ‘skills not degree’, training from Class 6

Udit Bubna - August 20, 2026

India bars JPMorgan unit for alleged market manipulation

Chiranjivi Chakraborty - August 20, 2026

RBI’s hawkish minutes rattle bond market, put rate hikes in play

Ruchi Bhatia - August 20, 2026

India’s crude import bill jumped by 57% year-on-year to $63.4 bn in April-July as oil prices rose

Udit Bubna - August 19, 2026

Windfall on Day 1 of UP-Japan investment meet: Rs 3,191-cr projects for Gr Noida, 500-acre Japanese City

Prashant Srivastava - August 19, 2026

Governance

Specific conditions unnamed, heads from RPwD Act missing: What Census 2027 disability form leaves out

Vrinda Tulsian - August 20, 2026

New census questions may be meant for National Population Register, says ex-deputy Registrar General

Apoorva Mandhani - August 20, 2026

Hits, misses & criticism: 100-day report card of Vijay’s TVK govt in Tamil Nadu

Shweta Tripathi - August 19, 2026

Telcos to use subscriber photo checks to enforce 9-SIM cap in bid to curb digital arrest scams

Vrinda Tulsian - August 19, 2026

Global Pulse

India-China manufacturing gap, Reliance & Rolls-Royce collab—what’s making to global headlines

Vidhi Bhutra - August 20, 2026

Science

Hyderabad to Hawaii, journey of Rohan Naidu who discovered a black hole star

Rohan Naidu is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii, and one of the lead researchers behind the discovery of a new astronomical object — the black hole star.

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Poet Jan Nisar Akhtar wrote 150 film songs. His great love story survives in 500 letters

Debdutta Chakraborty - August 19, 2026

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