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Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh’s candid revelations about Operation Sindoor at a FICCI event ‘New Age Military Technologies’ on 4 July in New Delhi bring home the fact that India faces a multi-pronged threat when it comes to dealing with...

The BJP’s constitution (Article 3) says, “Integral Humanism shall be the philosophy of the party.” The party’s membership form has a pledge which members are required to take. The first line of this pledge is: “I believe in Integral Humanism which is the basic philosophy...

India’s espionage architecture is quietly shifting. The appointment of Parag Jain as the new chief of RAW comes at a particularly volatile moment globally. Iran has just executed alleged Mossad assets and detained hundreds, reportedly triggering emergency backchannel coordination by several countries, including India. A...

Revolting against oppression and seeking freedom is ingrained in human nature, something that a repressive regime finds out sooner or later. Change is the only constant, and therefore, it is difficult to hold people under sway for an indefinite period of time through aggressive measures....

US President Donald Trump, who had comfortably defeated his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the recent presidential election and exuded supreme confidence since then, now seems to be rattled by the challenge posed by Democratic candidate for the mayoral election of the crucial New York...

Months ahead of the Assembly polls in Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 28 June launched a ‘special intensive revision’ of electoral rolls in the state, a move that critics argue undermines the core principles of democracy, especially, universal adult franchise as guaranteed...

We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went relatively unnoticed. This was of the formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and the reasons for its coming into being. On 5 May 1950, SP Mookerjee...

Since February, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been operating for the first time with two full principal secretaries, P.K. Mishra and Shaktikanta Das. The arrangement reflects the scale of ambition in Modi 3.0: fast-track delivery, tighter coordination, and a laser focus on 2030 goals....

A17-year-old girl was beaten to death by her father for not getting good score in a mock test for the pre-medical National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Sangli, Maharashtra, recently. The bright girl who had scored 95 per cent in Plus II lost her...

Normally, negatives do not make headlines. But, at times, they do. The recently concluded G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, turned out to be one such event when what did not happen mattered more than what did. The most crucial thing that did not take place...