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Removing a Chief Election Commissioner is hard; holding one to account should not be. India’s election referee must be independent, yet independence cannot mean freedom from scrutiny

As AI agents enter the real world, four gaps matter: containment, infrastructure, resources, and regulation. Can we close them before capability outruns safeguards?

There is no universal inhibitor in global politics. Power must be restrained by both countervailing strength and political judgement

Did Narendra Modi make India perform better than it would otherwise have? A new study reconstructs the India that might have been and draws a stark conclusion: his era represents a “tale of broken promises”

From Pochampally and Gadwal to Narayanpet and Siddipet, Telangana’s handloom traditions carry generations of skill, but recognition seldom translates into fair incomes for weavers

A closer look at how electoral roll revisions have changed the numbers of male and female voters across Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal

The protective framework of the Fifth Schedule and Regulation 1 of 1970 must be understood in the context of the historical exploitation, dispossession and displacement of tribal communities

The story of Telangana’s irrigation politics is ultimately one of promise versus delivery. The Congress promised Pranahita–Chevella, which remained on paper, while the BRS delivered Kaleshwaram with detailed planning, assured funding, and on-ground execution

Conquest, colonisation, governance and politics are central to The Odyssey. The capture of households, women, slaves, mass killings and destruction make Homer’s epic a horrific tale of human hubris

Hyderabad-based Skyroot’s orbital success signals a startup revolution, and a turning point for India’s private space industry

Just a few kilometres from Ramappa, Ganapuram Kota Gullu, one of Telangana's least-known archaeological treasures, preserves Kakatiya grandeur and the fading echoes of a worldview that embraced both the sacred and the sensual

The country cannot become a developed nation while smuggling and counterfeiting fuel a parallel economy. Combating illicit trade must become a national economic priority

Long before social media campaigns and environmental documentaries, India’s postage stamps carried messages of conservation, biodiversity and sustainable living across the world 

For many tribal children in Telangana, learning Hindi means navigating four languages at once—making a compelling case for mother tongue-based learning

While prices have risen across India, southern States, particularly Telangana, have consistently recorded inflation rates above the national average in recent months. What is fueling this gap?

With El Niño intensifying, Telangana faces drought and rainfall deficits, making the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project vital to the State’s water security

Expanded format, new rules, soaring costs and geopolitical tensions surround football’s biggest spectacle starting June 11

Many of Telangana’s 1,080 zero-population villages may not be abandoned at all. Duplication, GPS errors and conflicting entries expose flaws in Mission Antyodaya data, raising serious questions about the reliability of Union government’s rural development database

Tata Sons faces pressure to list after RBI’s NBFC classification. Can it remain a philanthropic guardian, or will it reshape into a transparent entity answerable to shareholders and markets?

The Telangana government’s proposed relocation of Chenchus from Amrabad Tiger Reserve raises serious constitutional and humanitarian concerns — Adivasis are forest custodians, not intruders

Once a multidirectional eco-memory of trees, dogs, and other nonhumans, the road to glitzy corporate, educational, and industrial hubs in Hyderabad is now a mono-memory — dominated by humans and their wheels

From iconic portraits to moments of tragedy, Raghu Rai’s six-decade journey captured the spirit of a nation, proving that while photographs fade, truthful images endure as lasting witnesses

Telangana’s decade-long high-growth model kept the economic cycle dynamic—wages, welfare and investment drove circulation. Today, policy shifts and reduced household cash flow are slowing the cycle, weakening demand, rural incomes and employment

Our oldest inheritances are living ecosystems that hold together ecology and economy. As World Heritage Day passes, nature’s warning lingers—if forests lose their breath, so will we