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‘BJP, TMC Jointly Involved,’ Say Villagers as Bankura’s Sand-Mining Devours Land, Lives and Law Madhu Sudan Chatterjee✍️ #Special #BengalPolls2026 thewire.in/special/bjp-tm…

What the court said in its judgement was the legal equivalent of looking at a marathon runner, who completes the race on a broken leg, and concluding that the fracture could not have been serious because they finished. Arya Suresh✍️ thewire.in/law/what-a-sup…

What a Supreme Court Observation on Disability Rights Got Wrong Arya Suresh✍️ thewire.in/law/what-a-sup…

When Iran’s Naval Ship Was Torpedoed by US Near India | A Survivor Recounts An Iranian naval ship returning from Visakhapatnam was attacked near India–Sri Lanka waters, killing nearly 100. A survivor recounts his escape as questions rise over India’s silence.

Tamil Nadu Campaign Ends as State Shapes Into a Three-Cornered Contest As the noise of campaigning fades, what remains is the electorate’s judgment. thewire.in/government/tam…

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A large share of the Indian Navy’s submarine fleet will retire over the next decade, and this visit, while diplomatically significant, is unlikely to meaningfully accelerate or resolve the crisis. Rahul Bedi✍️ thewire.in/security/as-ra…

As Rajnath Singh Lands in Germany, Two-Decades-Old Submarine Project Still Awaits Deal Rahul Bedi✍️ thewire.in/security/as-ra…

Govt Tells HC: '4 PM' YouTube Channel Blocked For 'Lobbying', 'Conspiracy Theories' on Pahalgam, Manipur The news platform had approached the high court after its YouTube channel was blocked in March this year, citing national security and public order. thewire.in/media/govt-tel…

A Year After Pahalgam, Modi Govt Yet to Clarify 'Lapses' That Led to Attack 'Nobody is saying that the government is culpable for the failure but what people are entitled to ask is how Baisaran was missed altogether.' @Gaamuk✍️ thewire.in/security/a-yea…

Amid West Asia Crisis, NSA Ajit Doval Makes One-day 'Surprise' Trip to Riyadh Doval was received at the airport by Saudi Deputy Minister for Political Affairs Saud Al Sati, who has been the Saudi Ambassador to India for nearly a decade from 2012-2021. thewire.in/diplomacy/amid…

Congress MP K.C. Venugopal has said that PM addressing the nation on government not being able to muster requisite majority in parliament and criticising the opposition ‘constitute a serious breach of privilege and contempt of the House’. thewire.in/politics/blata…

‘Blatant Abuse of Power’: Congress MP Submits Privilege Motion Against PM Modi in Lok Sabha thewire.in/politics/blata…

BJP MLA Pritam Singh Lodhi Allegedly Threatens Cop Over Probe Into Son’s Car Crash Case The MLA's son, Dinesh Lodhi allegedly drove his Thar into five people last week. thewire.in/politics/bjp-m…

Over 400 Hospitalised After Food Poisoning in Gujarat

Record FPI Outflows, Crude Price Surge, Even as India Inc Expands Overseas thewire.in/economy/record…

Probe Underway After Fire Breaks Out at Rajasthan Refinery a Day Before Modi's Visit thewire.in/energy/probe-u…

From @chhuti_is’s deep dive at @thewire_in into SIR deletions in three West Bengal constituencies, together, it is clear that the biggest victims are Muslim voters and the Matua community, that there is a political method in the bureaucratic madness — and that the Supreme Court needs to step in to prevent the deliberate disenfranchisement of voters. “In Mothabari and Nakashipara, the burden fell overwhelmingly on Muslim-concentrated booths, shrinking an electorate that forms the core of [TMC/INC] strength in those constituencies. “In Habra, the pattern flipped demographically but not structurally. The same opaque categories appear to have fallen hardest on Matua-dominated areas, non-elite-caste Hindu refugee settlements marked by chronic documentary vulnerability, citizenship anxiety and dependence on bureaucratic recognition”. She concludes: “In sum, the SIR appears to have worked most harshly against those communities for whom paperwork, presence and political belonging are already fragile. The most obvious forms of electoral manipulation are usually imagined as things visible on polling day – intimidation, capture, coercion, violence. But the SIR in West Bengal shows that a new form of electoral engineering now deserves equal scrutiny, one carried out much earlier, through bureaucratic invisibility.”

The rupee too has weakened by 3.5% in 2026, including a 2.3% drop since the conflict began, to 93.1 per dollar, eroding returns for overseas investors. thewire.in/economy/rs-1-6…

Rs 1.68 Trillion Cumulative FPI Outflow So Far in First Four Months of 2026, More Than Any Previous Full Year thewire.in/economy/rs-1-6…

Normal Life Continues to be Impacted in Manipur Amid Shutdown Call by Multiple Groups Meanwhile, protesters from two tribal communities on Tuesday (April 21) clashed on the borders of Senapati and its adjacent Kangpokpi districts of Manipur. thewire.in/government/nor…