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Why is Chhath Puja 2021 crucial for the Kejriwal-led Delhi government?
Delhi is due to have Municipal body elections in 2022, which the BJP has won for decades, AAP needs to make its mark, before next state elections, and ahead of UP elections 2022
More skeletons tumble out of the Rafale closet
French portal Mediapart reveals how Dassault paid huge bribes but the CBI failed to investigate the alleged kickbacks despite having documentary evidence!
Will the US tag India a ‘country of particular concern’?
Recommendation by USCIRF timed in anticipation of the State Department’s announcement about the CPC and Special Watch List (SWL) designations
Assam: Day 1 of eviction in Hojai passes peacefully
Families had already vacated the area in the Lumding Reserve Forest after verbal assurance of rehabilitation, though there is no commitment on paper yet
Assam: CBI arrests Opposition leader’s brother
Ashok Saikia furnishes proof of loan repayment, was there an ulterior motive behind arrest?
Afghanistan: Bullet riddled bodies of women activists found in Mazar-e-Sharif
Frozan Safi (30), who had taught at a private university in Balkh the northern Afghan province, was one of the victims identified
Evicted families will be rehabilitated only if name appears in NRC: Assam Gov’t to Gauhati HC
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State claims 1,000 bhigas of land set aside for rehabilitation, but it is not for “encroachers”
BJP regime’s words don’t match actions: Farmers
Farmer leaders warned that Tuesday’s bypoll results foretell BJP’s fate if they do not heed peasant’s demands
What Adityanath can do, Kejriwal can replicate faster
Delhi CM recreates Ayodhya temple for ‘official puja’
Bye election results: AITC sweeps WB, BJP-UPPL win in Assam
Polling was held across 13 states and one union territory on October 30, in seats where sitting candidates had either died or switched parties
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Kerala court grants bail to T.G. Mohandas in Jantar Mantar remarks case, cites arrest procedure irregularity
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Education
August 11, 2026: A decade plus of students challenging a regime that seeks to control thought & ideas
The pushback to the Modi 1.0 regime came within months of it being sworn into office, and it emerged from the student of the Central University, Hyderabad & JNU among others, that had been creations of independent India’s intellectual and organisational fashioning; while Gen Z’s 2026 protests are a breath of fresh air to the battle weary, India’s students in universities have never been silent
Minorities
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