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On a stifling afternoon in May 2026, the air in the Panihati constituency of North 24 Parganas was thick with pre-monsoon moisture and a quiet, almost sacred tension. Walking through the crowded lanes was a woman whose physical appearance carried a heavy symbolic message: her hair was completely uncombed, flowing wild and unbound over a shoulder draped in a simple cotton saree. The saree itself bore a sharp message printed across its border: Merudanada Bikri Nei—"My Spine Is Not For Sale".

SANT KABIR NAGAR — In the flat, sun-baked plains of eastern Uttar Pradesh, justice is no longer just a slow, quiet argument conducted in the high-ceilinged courtrooms of Lucknow or Allahabad. Today, it arrives with the mechanical roar of a diesel engine and the smell of pulverized brick.

A severe judicial ruling in Iran has ignited a fresh wave of international outrage among cultural figures and global human rights watchdogs. Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi has been sentenced to 74 lashes after performing in an online concert without wearing a hijab. This development has led activists and fellow artists to openly accuse the authorities in Tehran of intensifying their ongoing crackdown on cultural dissent across the nation.

In a major achievement for India on the global stage, the country has been chosen for the vice-presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international body that works to fight money laundering and terror financing. Senior IAS officer Vivek Aggarwal has been elected as the FATF Vice-President for the term from July 2026 to June 2027.

On the morning of June 19, 2026, a dubbed translation broadcast across Italian living rooms shattered whatever fragile peace remained in the Atlantic alliance. For months, the relationship between Washington and Rome had been quietly fraying behind closed doors, strained by the geopolitical fallout of a devastating war in the Middle East and a profound dispute over the moral authority of the Catholic Church. But it was an exclusive phone interview on La7’s morning program, L’Aria che tira, that finally dragged the private hostilities of statecraft into the public glare.

A tectonic shift along the India-Bangladesh border has completely disrupted a highly lucrative, underground machinery. The implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) alongside the fall of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government has brought the massive underground network facilitating illegal border crossings between India and Bangladesh to a complete halt. This multi-million rupee shadow economy, which went unchecked for years, suddenly found its operations frozen by a combined wave of strict political mandates and unprecedented electoral cleanup.

The legacy of colonial rule continues to cast a long shadow over modern India. While the British Empire formally exited the subcontinent in 1947—leaving behind a deeply scarred landscape fractured along communal lines—the underlying strategy of "Divide and Rule" remains active. Today, this classic tactic is being deployed with renewed intensity by internal actors. Instead of foreign imperialists, specific political and religious factions are actively working to exploit historical fault lines within Hindu society, attempting to reclassify large segments of the population as entirely separate f…

On any humid afternoon in New Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar, the ambient soundtrack is a mix of generator hums, the rustle of photocopied study materials, and the intense discussions of civil service aspirants gathered near tea stalls. This neighborhood is the epicenter of India’s coaching-industrial complex, a multi-million-dollar ecosystem designed to prepare candidates for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination. Here, success is measured in fractions of a percent, and the cost of entry is remarkably high.

MUMBAI — It appears that managing a political party in Maharashtra is increasingly resembling a game of musical chairs, except the chairs are chartered flights and the music is the rustle of multi-crore bundles. In the latest dramatic turn of events, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) faction is facing another existential headache. Party strongman and professional fire-breather Sanjay Raut has thrown open a fresh chest of explosive allegations. On Thursday, Raut claimed that his party’s dissident Lok Sabha Members of Parliament (MPs) were handed a lavish parting gift—an additional Rs 1…