On September 5, 2026, a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh, convicted 10 surviving cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), including three women, for their
India continued to lead the world in mobile app downloads in 2025, according to a new report from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, but the country remains absent from the top 20
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India is planning a major expansion of its space-based surveillance capabilities, including the launch of more than 50 spy satellites and the addition of night-time imaging, according to people familiar with the
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The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF)’s belated official recognition by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Veterans Day, January 14, is welcome. He scored a political point without naming the Congress government which
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A day after the UN freshly repeated the allegation this week that sexual violence had been “part of a deliberate, widespread, and systemic pattern of violations” by the Sri Lankan military and
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Nagaland continued to experience a markedly subdued insurgency landscape through 2025, a trend that has extended into the opening weeks of 2026, with militant activity remaining sporadic, fragmented, and largely non-kinetic. The
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Operation Sindoor last year drew a new strategic picture between India and Pakistan. The most important aspect of this redrawn strategic picture was setting a new normal and attempting to achieve a
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Despite official data showing India’s economy expanding at 7.4% in the year ending March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a high-stakes decision that could determine whether the country’s growth story continues or
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On January 14, 2026, the Karkardooma Court in Delhi convicted Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) ‘chief’ Asiya Andrabi, Sofi Fehmeeda ‘press secretary’ of DeM, and Nahida Nasreen ‘general secretary’, for their involvement in a terrorist
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Development-related environmental debates in Sri Lanka rarely stay rooted in ecology—they are almost always colored by politics. The abandoned Adani wind power project in Mannar is a striking example. Not long ago,
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This column was originally published in Sunday Morning, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. India was not in the West’s favour until the early 1990s, maintaining a close and unapologetic alignment with the Soviet
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