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Bengaluru Stampede After RCB Event: A Failure of Planning, Policing and Political Optics

Bengaluru Stampede After RCB Event: A Failure of Planning, Policing and Political Optics

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A crowd of fans gather in large numbers during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s felicitation ceremony after winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, in front of Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru on June 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A day after the tragic stampede outside M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, a first information report (FIR) was

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Mumbai-Nagpur expressway now operational, cuts travel time by 10 hours

Mumbai-Nagpur expressway now operational, cuts travel time by 10 hours

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Newly constructed Samruddhi Expressway which connects from Nashik to Mumbai scheduled to be inaugurated in next few months. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini   Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the final leg of the Samruddhi Expressway on Thursday. He said the project is an “economic corridor of Maharashtra’s prosperity.” With the 76 km final

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South Korea’s New Leader Is Facing an Old Problem

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South Korea’s new president has only been in the job a few days, but he already risks repeating past mistakes. The moment calls for a rethink in the US ally’s defense posture.  It’s unclear if Lee Jae-myung is up to the task — or whether he will cling to failed strategies to deal with nuclear-armed North Korea. The left-leaning leader secured victory

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Telangana Cabinet clears Hyderabad Metro Phase 2B expansion, DA hike and ₹33,000 crore for road development

Telangana Cabinet clears Hyderabad Metro Phase 2B expansion, DA hike and ₹33,000 crore for road development

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Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka, Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar briefing the media after the Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat in Hyderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT The State Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, has approved a wide range of decisions, including payment of another instalment

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Flipkart secures NBFC license from RBI—becomes first Indian e-comm player to offer direct lending

Flipkart secures NBFC license from RBI—becomes first Indian e-comm player to offer direct lending

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Flipkart has received a lending licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Walmart-backed ecommerce company confirmed on Thursday. The nod came in March this year, according to sources. When contacted about the grant of the NBFC licence, Flipkart confirmed the development but did not divulge any details. The move could pave the way

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RCB Victory Parade Tragedy: A. Narayana Questions Governance and Public Complicity

RCB Victory Parade Tragedy: A. Narayana Questions Governance and Public Complicity

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A. Narayana says political leaders seek photo-ops with achievers, not accountability. | Photo Credit: YouTube Screengrab A. Narayana, a Professor of public policy and governance at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru over two decades of experience in the fields of media, academics, policy consultancy and social activism. A keen observer of the linkages between politics and

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Trump’s Administration Has Asked Ally Serbia to Accept Deportees

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President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing Serbia and other Balkan nations to take in migrants deported from the US, according to people familiar with the matter.  The requests to countries in the region are ongoing and part of a broader strategy to find foreign governments willing to receive migrants sent from the US, including some

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Column | Dalit rights activist and lawyer Manjula Pradeep’s circle of care

Column | Dalit rights activist and lawyer Manjula Pradeep’s circle of care

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It was 1993 and Manjula Pradeep’s fingers were flying over an electronic typewriter as she tried to make sense of the evidence, testimony and haunting postmortem report of a young Dalit man who had died of custodial torture. The victim’s mother had brought the case to Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat’s leading anti-caste grassroots organisation where Pradeep was

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Karnataka govt to formulate new SOP for mega events, celebrations

Karnataka govt to formulate new SOP for mega events, celebrations

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Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara speaking to reporters a day after the stampede on Thursday (June 5, 2025). | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Karnataka government will formulate a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for mega events, meetings and celebrations aimed at preventing any untoward incidents, State Home Minister G. Parameshwara said on Thursday (June 5,

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