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Floods and foes: On Pakistan floods and Indian response
India and Pakistan are best placed to help each other during natural disasters
India’s trial by fire for soldiers from Nepal
Narendra Modi’s new military recruitment plan has implications for Nepal’s economy and politics
Take ‘Note’: This is How Cattle is Smuggled from West Bengal
Sources say smugglers use note identification to give out the batches of cattle With the arrest of Birbhum Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Anubrata Mondal, various aspects of cattle smuggling in West Bengal have come to the fore. For…
Durga Puja 2022: Big Plans in Bengal after UNESCO Heritage Tag, Covid Lull
On September 1, the Trinamool Congress government will organise a big thanksgiving rally for UNESCO, and chief minister Mamata Banerjee will participate
The Politics Of Hate And Why Gujarat Will Not Do Justice To Bilkis Bano
Nothing in Gujarat is devoid of a political angle in New India. Politics is to Gujarat what Bollywood is to Mumbai. So, those trying to brush off the release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists as a “local decision” smacks of hypocrisy and typical…
TMC Goes All Out to ‘Clean Its Image’ in Bengal as Govt Sends New Rules to Districts to…
The new rules issued state that if money has been disbursed in the name of any project, and is seen utilised for any other purpose, legal action will be initiated against the culprits
Move to India or trust Taliban? Kabul’s Sikhs in doubt, 2 months after IS attack on gurudwara
The 18 June attack has made many in the already-dwindling community want to leave Afghanistan. But the Taliban realises that treating Sikh-Hindu community well may help relations with India. Kabul: In a wealthy quarter of Kabul known as…
Why Taliban wants India in Kabul and New Delhi is upscaling mission
The Taliban and India are joined at the hip by a single date – 15 August. The similarity ends there. The rise and fall of empires have neither diminished Kabul’s beauty, nor its brilliance. On the eve of the first anniversary of the Islamic…
‘What’s there to celebrate,’ Afghans ask as Taliban mark one year in power in Kabul
As former Taliban fighters roamed the streets of Kabul to mark their victory over the old regime, several Kabulis stayed at home out of fear. Kabul: Taliban foot-soldiers were out on the streets in full strength in Kabul Monday to mark…
Making khadi Tiranga: Women in Bengeri down but not out
Disappointed with government’s new diktat allowing the national flag to be made of polyester and in varying dimensions, the women continue to weave the Tiranga in khadi and hope for better days