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Waqf hearing in SC: Why CJI-led bench flagged four key amendments in new law

Ruchi Bhattar - April 18, 2025

Concerns under scrutiny were drawn from a batch of nearly 100 petitions challenging the law, and revolve around significant changes to waqf governance and property recognition.

India, Bangladesh in EU’s proposed list of ‘safe countries of origin’ as it seeks to tighten asylum laws

Keshav Padmanabhan - April 18, 2025

In key FOC talks, Bangladesh seeks Pakistan’s apology for 1971 ‘atrocities’, $4.52 bn as rightful share

Debdutta Chakraborty - April 18, 2025

Scientists swarmed Maharashtra’s ‘bald village’. 4 months on, new symptoms, zero answers

+TFP Soumya Pillai - April 18, 2025

How does a singer bring emotion in Thumri? Vidya Rao answers through many voices

Shubhangi Misra - April 18, 2025

How AIADMK plans to convince its workers & voters to bet on alliance with BJP

Prabhakar Tamilarasu - April 18, 2025

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‘This tunnel took something from me, I came to take it back’—in Silkyara breakthrough, some closure

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Geriatric medicine is India’s new priority. Elderly were forgotten in Youngistan for 2 decades

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Betbona’s exodus: How Murshidabad violence turned a village to rubble & drove hundreds across Ganga

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Trump hints at ending tariff tit-for-tat with China, TikTok deal on hold

Trevor Hunnicutt - April 18, 2025

38 dead, 102 injured in US strike on Yemen fuel port, says Houthi-run media

Ismail Shakil - April 18, 2025

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, 2 partners are frontrunners to develop Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield

Mike Stone - April 18, 2025

Bilkis Bano to Gachibowli, Telangana IAS Smita Sabharwal has ruffled feathers before too

Prasad Nichenametla - April 18, 2025

Opinion

‘Puncturewalas’ slur shows Muslims as unskilled. No one’s asking the right question though

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The debate now circles around whether PM Modi insulted Muslims in his speech, or whether his comments were taken out of context.

Covid to Kumbh—India counts on civil servants during crises

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The Kerala Consensus is breaking. Is L2: Empuraan row the new way now?

Anand Kochukudy -

I feel bad for AS Dulat—wrote a book to celebrate Farooq Abdullah, only to be disowned by him

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What makes someone a Hyderabadi—Irani chai, biryani, Nizam nostalgia, or Dakhni?

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Not just bangles and bhangra—Vaisakhi is a spiritual uprising against Brahmanical orthodoxy

Kanwal Singh -

DPDP Act offers no special protection for disability data. It leaves PwDs vulnerable

Nipun Malhotra -

Features

How does a singer bring emotion in Thumri? Vidya Rao answers through many voices

Shubhangi Misra - April 18, 2025

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How AIADMK plans to convince its workers & voters to bet on alliance with BJP

Prabhakar Tamilarasu - April 18, 2025

BJP, AIADMK have revived alliance ahead of TN polls. Ground realities have forced rethink on strategy for how EPS-led party can convince voters to look beyond opposition to BJP's policies.

Why Pinarayi’s defending Vellappally Natesan, who he once slammed for ‘surpassing all communal lunatics’

Aneesa PA - April 18, 2025

BJP to highlight waqf law ‘benefits’ in Christian-dominated districts of Kerala, 13 other states

Neelam Pandey - April 17, 2025

‘Backdated land deal’ was impetus for ED summons to Robert Vadra

Mayank Kumar - April 17, 2025

Telangana’s top IAS officer under fire for reposting ‘Ghibli-style’ image in Kancha Gachibowli land row

Prasad Nichenametla - April 17, 2025

National Herald case: Congress’s ‘selective justice’ rebuttal to ED charge sheet against Sonia, Rahul

Mayank Kumar - April 17, 2025

No coalition govt, alliance only for 2026 polls—EPS contradicts Amit Shah on AIADMK-BJP tie-up

Prabhakar Tamilarasu - April 16, 2025

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UK Supreme Court’s legal definition of a woman is an important course correction

ThePrint Team - April 17, 2025

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Ground Reports

Scientists swarmed Maharashtra’s ‘bald village’. 4 months on, new symptoms, zero answers

Soumya Pillai -

Geriatric medicine is India’s new priority. Elderly were forgotten in Youngistan for 2 decades

Shubhangi Misra -

Patna University Students Union is now run by women. ABVP prez calls it arts students’ lab

Jyoti Yadav -

Bihar has many Khushboo Kumaris who score 400 but don’t get to study science. Arts their fate

Jyoti Yadav -

Macrosutra

With tariff-related uncertainties piling, India must quicken US deal talks, engage more trade partners

Radhika Pandey - April 18, 2025

Diplomacy

In key FOC talks, Bangladesh seeks Pakistan’s apology for 1971 ‘atrocities’, $4.52 bn as rightful share

Debdutta Chakraborty - April 18, 2025

World

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, 2 partners are frontrunners to develop Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield

Mike Stone - April 18, 2025

India

Panic-stricken amid Trump’s visa purge, Indian students look at private universities back home

Fareeha Iftikhar - April 18, 2025

Counselling agencies say Indians studying in the US are also considering relocating to countries like Canada, Australia, and UAE.

Bilkis Bano to Gachibowli, Telangana IAS Smita Sabharwal has ruffled feathers before too

Prasad Nichenametla - April 18, 2025

Quake or fake? Science frowns as India’s earthquake prophets cause stir with cat & cardboard theories

Akanksha Mishra - April 18, 2025

‘This tunnel took something from me, I came to take it back’—in Silkyara breakthrough, some closure

+TFP Falguni Sharma - April 18, 2025

Himachal chief secy in soup after Rs 1.2 lakh bill for Holi party sent to govt for clearance

Saurabh Chauhan - April 17, 2025

Judges acting like ‘Super Parliament’—V-P Dhankhar on SC’s deadline for President to decide on bills

Apoorva Mandhani - April 17, 2025

What is CBI’s FCRA case against AAP’s Durgesh Pathak? It all started with a raid on a Congressman

Mayank Kumar - April 17, 2025

Kerala Konnect

The Kerala Consensus is breaking. Is L2: Empuraan row the new way now?

Anand Kochukudy - April 18, 2025

Economy

V is not for victory, but volatility—what is VIX & why are Trump’s tariffs roiling the ‘fear gauge’

Sampurna Panigrahi - April 10, 2025

RBI MPC slashes repo rate by 25 basis points to 6%, second cut in a row

Sampurna Panigrahi - April 9, 2025

Maharashtra ready to face global headwinds, US tariffs are ‘huge opportunity’—Fadnavis

Purva Chitnis - April 8, 2025

Why Trump’s tariffs are unlikely to severely impact the Indian economy

Sampurna Panigrahi - April 4, 2025

National Skill Development Corporation, WRI India partner to address green skill gap

ThePrint Team - April 3, 2025

Governance

Bilkis Bano to Gachibowli, Telangana IAS Smita Sabharwal has ruffled feathers before too

Prasad Nichenametla - April 18, 2025

Judges acting like ‘Super Parliament’—V-P Dhankhar on SC’s deadline for President to decide on bills

Apoorva Mandhani - April 17, 2025

Record 16 IPS officers to be posted to conflict-ridden Manipur as Centre cites ‘backlog’

Ananya Bhardwaj - April 17, 2025

Telangana’s top IAS officer under fire for reposting ‘Ghibli-style’ image in Kancha Gachibowli land row

Prasad Nichenametla - April 17, 2025

Environment

Quake or fake? Science frowns as India’s earthquake prophets cause stir with cat & cardboard theories

Akanksha Mishra - April 18, 2025

Science

First ‘dire wolf’ in over 10,000 years. It isn’t an exact copy but a stand-in

US-based biotech firm Colossal Laboratories announced Tuesday that it has 'brought back' the extinct dire wolf species using genetic engineering, 13,000 years after it disappeared.

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Pakistan making a colony out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, say Pashtuns on new mining bill

Debdutta Chakraborty - April 17, 2025

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