Opinion

How allegations of child sexual abuse, media voyeurism, and suspected institutional complicity collided with electoral realpolitik.

UPITS can be described as a global proclamation of the new capabilities of a new Uttar Pradesh, backed by the unique combination of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's visionary foresight, strong administrative will, and business- and public welfare-friendly policies

The UN was built to stop the next big war, but it saw annihilation threats and blasting devices. Trump, Netanyahu and Milei used a global stage for local Reel-centric politics.

Two hundred people applied for 50 spots at a party built around unapproved compounds. Then a regulator asked one simple question nobody wanted to answer: what exactly is in the vial? A satirical look at the night wellness culture tried to skip its own science homework.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now give us a finished intellectual product before we have gone through the struggle that once taught us how to produce it. The danger of "Just ask ChatGPT" is not that machines are learning to think, but that by outsourcing difficulty, humans might slowly lose the habits of attention, memory, reasoning and perseverance that made us capable in the first place.

Asked to define enlightenment and self-realisation, Sadhguru said such states cannot be understood through description alone. He argued that progress lies in breaking present limitations rather than imagining ultimate freedom.

Jamui is only a symptom of a chronic disease that ails Bihar: Brutalism brought upon by lost culture and poverty and poverty politics.

FSSAI has opened three cases against Nestle India over claims on NAN Excella and Lactogen Pro, and a biotin shortfall found in a separate follow-up formula. We explain why a baby cannot read a label, question a claim or choose another meal, making this one category where marketing and harm sit dangerously close.

How the party of protests mutated into a quasi-AIADMK, chased a 1976 ghost, and lost the plot to a generation that scrolls.

When a system flags nearly two million people under one category, the question cannot simply be whether each individual citizen can prove themselves innocent of the discrepancy. It must also be whether the mechanism generating the discrepancy is sufficiently transparent and reliable.

The Telangana High Court disqualified Danam Nagender after he contested as a Congress candidate while remaining a BRS MLA. The ruling has revived scrutiny of India's anti-defection framework and the Speaker's role in deciding such disputes.

This country was promised one trick: anything, anywhere, within 10 minutes. A raid on a shed in Bengaluru has now exposed the trick behind the trick.

Vijay will not lose much sleep over the Madhurantkam and Dharapuram bye-elections. A bitterly divided opposition and a five-cornered contest will ensure that in this farce of an election.

The outrage over the Ganga Aarti on the Thames is Deracination performing Aarti to its own ignorance. If you take offence, read on.

Eggs as a weapon are cruder than the crude bombs Bengal was so used to. Now, they have brought about an eggjistantial crisis to a state that prided itself in the Bhadralok culture.

The benefits of keeping UPI free outweighed the cost of keeping UPI free, but the government had an itch to fix what ain't broken. And that too, at a remarkable time.

Tukaram Mundhe's raids have also taken place ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi, the most widely celebrated festival in Maharashtra. When I spoke to him about it, his response was characteristically direct: the law is not religion-specific. Anyone who violates it will be brought to task.

Uttar Pradesh has framed women's empowerment as a driver of economic growth, not only social recognition. The shift is reflected in stronger participation, wider institutional support and expanding roles in policing, enterprise and village economies.

Iran has stepped up attacks on US forces and shipping lanes while the Houthis have widened pressure on Saudi Arabia. The escalation suggests Tehran is trying to raise military, economic and political costs before any wider war resumes.

A post boldly claims that vegans eat the most ultra-processed food. The data tells a quieter, far more interesting story. As a food technologist, I can tell you the problem was never the absence of meat. It is what we build to replace it.