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Intelligence Bureau has been tasked with overseeing preparation of agenda for conference, proposed weeks after new law on deputation of IPS officers was cleared.

Court was hearing plea of woman whose husband, an army officer, is in a vegetative state following an accident. She pled for extraction & cryopreservation of his genetic material.

Russian Embassy in Pakistan posts article by retd Russian ambassador extraordinary calling Islamabad an 'effective player in resolving external problems not directly related to its interests'.----more----https://theprint.in/world/after-us-china-russia-praises-pakistans-effective-role-as-peace-broker-in-west-asia-war/2906138/

Concerns around law and order or anxieties over religious conversion must be weighed against the developmental reality that the State cannot, on its own, meet the scale of India’s needs - Explains Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah in this week's column for #ThePrint----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/indias-non-profits-are-in-a-regulatory-hell-state-surveillance-to-confiscation-of-a...

Recent evidence from Mohenjo Daro does not suggest that urbanisation at the site is dated to 3300 BCE. Rather, it indicates that the site is rooted in a much earlier, pre-urban phase. Some media outlets also claimed that the city of Mohenjo-daro is the earliest in the world—older than the Egyptian cities—which is a misleading, wrong claim. Watch this week's column for ThePrint by Archaeologist Dis...

In February, MMRDA earmarked Rs 400 crore for Ambedkar memorial at Indu Mill in Mumbai’s Dadar. Part of the project is a 350-feet tall bronze statue of Dr Ambedkar.

This special edition of #CutTheClutter from Siliguri corridor details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to rest of India. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also explains why Siliguri Corridor has dominated West Bengal election campaign, & what India is doing to secure it.

In Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak’s Lucknow Cantt, deletion over 34%. Among top 15 seats with deletion rates exceeding 25 percent, 13 are represented by BJP and two by SP.

No matter what some Pakistani experts might say, India's gap is not the same as Pakistan's disconnect when it comes to the tax base. Start with the latest official numbers.

What is the status of the current war in the Gulf? On one plane, the war persists with unabated brutality; on another, it appears momentarily paused under a fragile ceasefire. At yet another level it is about keeping energy supplies to the world open, anxiously tracking the prices of Brent Crude and Natural Gas amid deteriorating investor confidence as US puts blockade on Hormuz for Iranian Ships....

It started with a police complaint alleging violations of Section 118—which restricts transfer of agricultural land to non-agriculturists—of the HP Tenancy and Land Reforms Act.  

An important scientific achievement for India in the past week was the ‘going critical’ of India’s indigenously designed nuclear reactor in Kalpakkam.  

Rupi is the 28th Maoist cadre to have been killed in an encounter in Bastar. Just this year, nearly 400 Maoist cadres have surrendered in the region.  

Coyle will take over from Gen Simon Stuart following his retirement. Australian navy chief Mark Hammond, a submariner, will now head nation’s Defence Force.  

Is there a version of belonging to Goa that is not predicated on consumption and extraction? 'Appetite'- a new anthology of 36 stories, poems, essays—and even a graphic piece—is interested in capturing what happens to a place when everyone’s busy wanting it. Published by Penguin Random House earlier this year and edited by Shivranjana Rathore and Tino de Sa, the collection brings together original...

The world is distracted with multiple wars, shifting and fraying alliances and the return of hard power is only a greater reason for India to refocus within. It’s another crisis not to be wasted. We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in th...

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As Islamabad hosts Iran-US ceasefire talks, #CutTheClutter looks at the bumpy & transactional alliance between Pakistan and America over the years, from 1950s to now. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also explains how & why Pakistan manages to take centre stage despite setbacks.

SharpEdge: Trump’s fanboys in BJP are now proved wrong. Lesson here is to never personalise diplomacy