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SATYA NIKETAN COLLAPSE | Delhi to Mandate Structural Audits for PGs, Schools and Nursing Homes
SATYA NIKETAN COLLAPSE | Delhi to Mandate Structural Audits for PGs, Schools and Nursing Homes
4 min read
After six people died in the collapse of a student PG, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said buildings used for public activity would require periodic structural audits and safety certification. Non-complia ...
SINGAPORE SIA-AIR INDIA ROW EXPLAINED | How a $1.5-billion Investment Debate Turned Anti-Indian
8 min read
A legitimate question about Singapore Airlines putting more money into loss-making Air India descended into racist attacks on Indians, Temasek’s chief executive and even Singaporeans missing after the ...
9/11 at 25: How the Day That Changed the World Redefined War, Security, Privacy and American Life
10 min read
Donald Trump remembers watching the second aircraft strike and realising that history had changed. He was right about the rupture, if not every detail of its aftermath. Twenty-five years later, 9/11 s ...
Why China’s New Ethnic Unity Law Is Raising Fresh Concerns Over Uyghur Rights 
3 min read
A new Chinese law on ethnic unity has reopened an old and deeply contested question over Uyghur identity. This time, the consequences extend beyond Xinjiang, into international diplomacy, human rights ...
From Fast Bowler To World No. 1: Who Is Rumesh Tharanga, Sri Lanka’s New Javelin Star?
4 min read
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage has just become the first Sri Lankan to win a Diamond League title. But his extraordinary 2026 has been building for months, from a 92.62m national record in Rome to a Common ...
The space between us: Humanity is defined not by likeness but by difference
3 min read
We have become too careful about discomfort. We call speaking up ‘political’ when what is really being asked is moral. The decent place is beside those pushed aside
Ultravolt Has ₹1,800 Crore and SRK. Havells Has Five Words
9 min read
Aditya Birla enters India’s wires market with the second-largest capacity, UltraTech’s trust and Shah Rukh Khan preaching responsible power. Polycab owns the market. Havells owns five unbeatable words ...
‘ECI Eliminated 15% of India’s Population’: Why Ex-CEC SY Quraishi Is Questioning SIR
4 min read
Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has questioned the Election Commission over the scale of voter exclusions, asking how many illegal immigrants were actually identified during the elector ...
Why Did These Indian Politicians Die Young? Sudivya Kumar Sonu and Six Ministers Who Never Reached 60
2 min read
Cancer, cardiac emergencies, post-COVID complications, a shooting and a helicopter crash ended seven political careers before 60—a roll call of lives, legacies and ambitions left unfinished.