A paramilitary jawan near the Dal Lake in Srinagar amid soaring India–Pakistan tension

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You can’t just bomb away terrorism

NSA Ajit Dival of the ‘Doval Doctrine’ — likely forbear of the 'ghar ghuske marna'

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India’s need for a coherent national security strategy

Enumerators collect socio-economic and caste data in Hyderabad, November 2024

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Caste census for real or a pre-poll ‘jumla’?

The Jagannath temple in Digha

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West Bengal: Will happy pilgrims make happier voters?

A forest fire in Uttarakhand (file photo)

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Why the world needs to declare ecocide an international crime

Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and Shehla Rashid protest in JNU, April 2016

Opinion

The dismantling of our education system

Enumerators collect information in Patna during the 2022 Bihar caste survey (file photo)

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Making sense of the BJP’s census gambit

Foreign secretary Vikram Misri (C), Col. Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh brief the media

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A strategic pursuit of ‘national interest’

A house damaged in cross-border shelling by Pakistan in Salamabad village in J&K's Uri, 8 May

Nation

Caught in the crossfire on the LoC

The border at Attari-Wagah (photo: PTI)

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The pairing we love to hate

SAD president and former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal at the Golden Temple

POLITICS

The secret of Sukhbir’s speedy rehabilitation

US President Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi in 2020 (Getty Images)

World

Pahalgam attack: Why India can’t count on the US in this conflict

Adil Thoker’s house in Bijbehara demolished by security forces

Opinion

Fear and loathing in Jammu & Kashmir