PM Narendra Modi reminded people of an incident when Gujarat being rated No. 1 left the Congress leadership in Delhi fuming. Economist Bibek Debroy had in 2015 claimed that Sonia Gandhi tried to intervene after the report was published, which led him to resign from a Congress-linked think tank.
Using the theme of India Today Group's Kisan Tak Bharat Agriculture Conference 2026, PM Narendra Modi said smart farming is needed to fulfil the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.
When US President Donald Trump set the world on fire by turning the Middle East into a war zone, he thought geography would provide a buffer. He probably didn't realise how fast petroleum fires spread, and that a consumerist society would punish him for the high cost of living.
While people highlight the long incarceration of activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, there are close to 9,000 undertrials who have spent over five years in Indian jails without being convicted. In fact, 72% of all prisoners in India are undertrials.
In India, which wants to be counted among developed nations, there is a rush among communities to be counted as backwards, because of caste-based reservation benefits. A post on X after the IIT Bombay suicide sent me researching about Devendrakula Velalar, an SC community in Tamil Nadu that is demanding it be removed from the Scheduled Caste list. Here's what I found out about the unique demand of the DKV.
The FSSAI has said in the Bombay High Court that Old Monk can't be sold as rum. The food regulator's action has revealed how most rums sold in India aren't rum. Most mass-market IMFL whiskies aren't whisky either. Nor are they rum. Here's addressing the elephant in the tavern.
India rushed the E20 mandate and built a huge ethanol set-up with ready loans. Now, it is diverting rice bought with taxpayers' money to ethanol distilleries at a 40% less price. Despite that, ethanol remains costlier than petrol. The questions here. Who's subsiding whom, and who is really gaining?
Abhijeet Dipke and his CJP are highlighting the poor condition of government schools. But barging into classrooms risks putting schoolchildren in the crosshairs. The activists should keep raising the issues and force officials to act without turning schools into sites of confrontations.
The state has submitted meekly to hooliganism. The hockey sticks or deafening decibels aren't supposed to be a part of the solemn journey, piety and penance are. The state is proving over and over again that you need to be part of a herd to be heard.
The second anniversary of Sheikh Hasina's exile to India, after her regime was overthrown in a bloody agitation, is all about her return to Bangladesh. Her return will not only give the Awami League a future, but preserve the legacy of Mujibur Rahman and the ethos of the 1971 Muktijuddho. We do not know how it will unfold, but we know how it will end.
Many believe Gen Zers crossed the line by abusing the prime minister at the CJP protest at Delhi and Mumbai. Actor-MP Kangana Ranaut called them the Gutter Generation. The Gen Z isn't that. Do not blame the victim for what the virus does.
The BJP is a party which obsesses over the future. That a resignation would create precedence was one of the key reasons it didn't want Dharmendra Pradhan to go. But then, the BJP has bigger Parliament plans, and Pradhan was but a tiny sacrifice.
Activist Sonam Wangchuk, whose hunger strike nourished the protest against the NEET-UG paper leak at Jantar Mantar, has given the government an off-ramp. An end to the protests might be in sight with Wangchuk toning down his demand for Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. This, as Rahul Gandhi had just begun.
Nitin Gadkari is back monitoring highways and Hardeep Singh Puri is defending the ethanol policy. What's behind the reshuffle that's confusing people?
India's biggest experiment isn't happening in a laboratory. It's happening at fuel pumps, with 1.4 billion people as the sample. Welcome to the world's biggest fuel trial, where every Indian motorist is unwillingly, a participant.
Giving our body for medical studies, knowing it will be dissected multiple times, is the highest form of donation. This is how cadavers are received, preserved, used with respect and disposed of. But India needs to urgently improve the process of final send-off for cadavers, which might help end their scarcity too.
For generations, Indian schoolchildren have turned not to an erotic but a blind eye to the 4,500-year-old Dancing Girl. By masking the Mohenjo-daro brass figurine's bare torso, the NCERT was trying to cultivate inquisitiveness in adolescents, who would have dug deeper. But we have failed the NCERT.
The grand welcome accorded to Rabi Lamichhane, Chairman of Nepal's ruling Rashtriya Swatantra Party, in India has made everyone sit up and take note. The question being asked is it a signal for PM Balendra 'Balen' Shah, whose remarks have triggered controversy in both Nepal and India?
K Annamalai has resigned from the BJP and is likely to float an outfit. Taking a leaf out of the Volkswagen-Skoda book, the BJP should back Annamalai's new party to have an entity from the same production line but with a different badge in Tamil Nadu. The BJP's Hindi-Hindutva plank has slid against the Tamil subnationalism wall, and Annamalai has all that is needed to capture the Dravidian fortress.
The Trinamool Congress is facing an existential crisis with several leaders having left or on the verge of quitting. Will TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee be able to fight the desertions and planned defections, and rebuild the party, or will it slip away from her hands?
