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ThePrint.in is a news, analysis, opinion & knowledge media company that sharply focuses on politics, policy, government and governance. Start your mornings with our journalists who bring you the big story of the day in ThePrintAM. ThePrintPod offers you our special reports and opinions for when you‘re on the go. End your day with our most popular show ‘Cut The Clutter’ by Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. But that’s not all. We also have Pure Science, National Interest, ThePrint Uninterrupted…
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ThePrintThePrintPod: Odisha’s top Maoist Sukru surrenders weeks after hacking deputy to death over laying down arms
https://theprint.in/india/odishas-top-maoist-sukru-surrenders-weeks-after-hacking-deputy-to-death-over-laying-down-arms/2887883/
ThePrintThePrintAM: What are the highlights of AIADMK's manifesto for Tamil Nadu polls?
ThePrintAM: What are the highlights of AIADMK's manifesto for Tamil Nadu polls?
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Complexities as Pakistan plays mediator between Iran & US-Gulf states, & why India should keep away
Pakistan has offered to mediate & resolve the war in Iran. While US President has shared Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif’s post on his country’s offer to host…
ThePrintThePrintPOD: ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel gets started on building India’s largest greenfield steel plant in Andhra
ThePrintPOD: ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel gets started on building India’s largest greenfield steel plant in Andhra
ThePrintThePrintPod: ‘No error, it’s a warning’: Furore in Kerala over EC letter with BJP seal even as CEO suspends official
Letter, dated 19 March 2019, had guidelines on candidate disclosure rules, was sent to all parties in Kerala. EC said it was a ‘clerical error’ & that the…
ThePrintPoliticallyCorrect: How and why ex-Odisha CM Patnaik is emerging in a new avatar, doing what he seldom did in 24 years
Vajpayee and Mahajan were instrumental in creating Biju Janata Dal in 1997. Modi-Shah BJP is on a mission to destroy it now. What’s the possible endgame…

ThePrintCutTheClutter: Nuclear weapons,Regime change,deal:Trump’s incoherent & changing Iran goals,& Pakistan ‘peace talks’
Trump today said US is postponing strikes on Iranian power plants & energy infrastructure as the two countries hold negotiations to end the Gulf war. Rejecting…
ThePrintThePrintPod: App-based cab drivers go on a strike in Gurugram: Here's why
App-based cab drivers in Gurugram associated with platforms like Uber and Ola went on strike on March 23, demanding mandatory KYC verification for passengers…
ThePrintThePrintAM: Political film Adamya thralls Kolkata before West Bengal Assembly polls
The low-budget movie, Adamya (The Unbroken), captures the life of a young Communist who chooses the barrel of the gun over the ballot box. Released on 13…

ThePrintSecurityCode: 'Nehru and Modi’s dilemmas are similar, secret documents on 1953 nuclear crisis show'
As critics accuse PM Modi of surrendering national sovereignty and India’s moral compass over Iran crisis, declassified documents show the dilemmas he faces…
ThePrintOpinion: Iran & Israel used to be allies, what went wrong?
Today’s tensions between Iran and Israel dominate global headlines—but this conflict was not always inevitable. Once strategic partners, the two nations…
ThePrintNationalInterest: India’s ‘Vishwaguru’ delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world
The Iran war is escalating and one side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Tiny Kharg island- Iran’s key oil hub at the centre of Gulf war with Trump mulling a takeover
Iran’s Kharg island is at the centre of Gulf war, with Trump reportedly mulling a takeover as tensions escalate. #CutTheClutter Episode 1814 looks at the…
ThePrintThePrintAM: What has SC squashed the case against Elvish Yadav?
What has SC squashed the case against Elvish Yadav? ----more---- https://theprint.in/judiciary/anti-bodies-not-snake-venom-why-sc-quashed-case-against-youtuber-…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Iran strikes Gulf states after Israel's South Pars escalation: Why it's a turning point in Gulf war
Iran targeted energy infrastructure across Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & UAE, after Israel struck South Pars- Iran's biggest natural gas complex. South Pars is…
ThePrintThePrintAM: Why did MP Pradyut Bordoloi quit Congress & join BJP ahead of Assam polls?
https://theprint.in/politics/was-insulted-had-difficulty-surviving-assam-mp-pradyut-bordoloi-joins-bjp-after-quitting-congress/2882369/
ThePrintThePrintPod: Mamata says ECI transferred officers by breaking convention. What former ECs say on the norm
Soon after announcing assembly poll schedule Sunday, Election Commission transferred 44 IAS, IPS, other civil servants in 4 states, including Bengal, ‘without…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: We take a break from Iran war, & explain what's at stake in Assam, WB, Kerala, TN & Puducherry polls
Assembly Elections will be held in 4 states and one Union Territory next month. With the election schedule announced, the campaigning has already begun and…
ThePrintThePrintPOD: 14 held in Varanasi for Iftar party with chicken biryani on boat in Ganga, ‘hurting Hindu sentiments’
ThePrintPOD: Complaint filed by members of BJP Yuva Morcha after video of Muslim group on the boat went viral. Police say appropriate action will be taken…
ThePrintThePrintPod: Joe Kent, top US Counterterrorism official in Trump administration who resigned over Iran war
Joe Kent, who led the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation in a letter addressed to President Donald Trump and posted publicly on X on…
ThePrintPoliticallyCorrect: It’s both personal & political for Amit Shah in West Bengal polls. He needs this win more than ever
BJP has tamed many regional parties—both allies and adversaries. How Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry polls are a win-win for BJP in terms of its expansion…
ThePrintNishikant-led House panel flags ‘regulatory gaps’ in online media & OTT, calls for more PIB fact-checks
Nishikant-led House panel flags ‘regulatory gaps’ in online media & OTT, calls for more PIB fact-checks
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Iran’s most powerful leader Ali Larijani ‘killed’ by Israel: Why it’s a blow to Tehran's leadership
Israel has claimed that it killed Iran’s most powerful leader & country’s top security official Ali Larijani in overnight strikes. #CutTheClutter Episode 1804…
ThePrintThePrintPod: In voting math for Haryana RS seats, near-misses for BJP & hard truths for Congress—despite win for both
What began as a routine two-seat election to Rajya Sabha turned into a midnight drama of cancelled ballots, EC scrutiny and voting patterns likely to have left…

ThePrintCutTheClutter: Saudi Arabia & UAE oil pipelines, & Gulf rivalries that prevented alternative to Strait of Hormuz
As Iran chokes the Strait of Hormuz, #CutTheClutter Ep 1810 looks at rivalries between gulf countries that prevented an alternative to the critical water…
ThePrintThePrintPod: What Gulf states would say to Iran. War is temporary, geography is permanent
Iran faces a choice that is larger than the immediate conduct of war. It can continue the logic of short-term escalation, or it can think in the longer…
ThePrintNationalInterest Pod: Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in Nepal, Bangladesh & SL - A sign of mature democracies
Rating democracies is a tricky business. Something makes the Indian Subcontinent different. All of its nations, from the Maldives through Sri Lanka, India…
ThePrintShekharSeSawal: LPG shortage,Trump's war on Iran, Iran's nuclear program,India-Bangladesh ties | ShekharSeSawal Ep50
एलपीजी की कमी, ईरान के खिलाफ छेड़ा गया युद्ध और ईरान के परमाणु कार्यक्रम से लेकर भारत-बांग्लादेश संबंधों तक-- दिप्रिंट के शो #ShekharSeSawaal में दिप्रिंट के…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: India’s LPG ‘crisis’ as Iran war escalates: Where our imports come from,concerns & what’s govt doing
Iran war & the closure of Strait of Hormuz has affected global oil supply and resulted in LPG ‘crisis’ in India. In episode 1809 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Trump & Netanyahu’s goal,what air power can achieve by itself & Iran's damage to US missile defences
Two weeks on and the US-Israel and Iran war has only escalated. And what we have been seeing is aerial warfare. Israel & US have been launching attacks from…
ThePrintThePrintAM: Why did SC allow passive euthanasia in Harish Rana case?
ThePrintAM: Why did SC allow passive euthanasia in Harish Rana case?
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Why tiny sea passage Strait of Hormuz is a critical oil chokepoint & Iran's 'Trump' card in the war
Three commercial ships were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz as tensions escalate in the US-Israel Vs Iran war. Nearly one-fifth of global oil supply passes…

ThePrintThePrintPod: Why is North India in the Grip of Dense Fog in March? Reason Revealed
The IMD Tuesday announced that Delhi is undergoing a spell of dense fog, but what are the underlying reasons? What is the reason behind Delhi's AQI rising…
ThePrintThePrintPod: Why These Five Iranian Women Footballers Won't Go Back To Iran
Five members of Iran’s women’s national football team have been granted humanitarian visas in Australia after refusing to sing the Iranian national anthem…
ThePrintThePrintAM: WHY DID HC ACQUIT RAM RAHIM IN JOURNALIST MURDER CASE?
https://theprint.in/india/ping-pong-witness-satsang-that-never-was-gaps-in-cbi-probe-that-led-to-hc-acquittal-for-ram-rahim/2874087/
ThePrintCutTheClutter: In clutter of many laws of war,why 2 Iranian ships found refuge from India,SL but one was sunk by US
#cuttheclutter The sinking of Iranian warship IRIS Dena in international waters off the Sri Lankan coast in Indian Ocean has raised questions over the…

ThePrintNationalInterest: Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi’s stoicism abroad needs much humility at home
#nationalinterest Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. How do India and Modi…
ThePrintThePrintPod: Racism in Antarctica? Bangladeshi YouTuber Salahuddin Sumon faces racial profiling
Salahuddin Sumon and Nilay Kumar Biswas were the two Bangladeshis on a recent trip to Antarctica. Ice caps and penguins weren’t the only highlight. The duo…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: China sets lowest growth target since 1991,moves priorities & what US gets wrong about Indian growth
CutTheClutter: China sets lowest growth target since 1991,moves priorities & what US gets wrong about Indian growth
ThePrintThePrintPod: Israel-Iran conflict won’t replicate 1973-like scenario for oil—but it’s a warning for India
'India is not alone in encountering this dynamic, but its high oil import dependence and increasing energy demand render its exposure particularly…
ThePrintThePrintPod: Days after IRIS Dena sinking, Sri Lanka starts evacuating 208 crew members from Iran Navy’s IRIS Bushehr
Colombo mounts rescue op for IRIS Bushehr, whose engine malfunctioned near its Exclusive Economic Zone, while upholding neutrality after US torpedoing of IRIS…
ThePrintThePrintPod: How China sees Iran’s post-Khamenei trajectory & how it depends on four factors
Chinese discourse places particular emphasis on the role of the US, evaluating both the strategic feasibility of deeper American involvement and the broader…
ThePrintSharpEdgePod: Indians laughing at their countrymen in Dubai are a disgrace. We have much to learn
Did you expect Dubai to become a target in the current Iran conflict? I certainly did not. And neither, I suspect, did the residents of Dubai themselves. When…
ThePrintThePrintAM: Who is Christopher Tilak, Congress’s choice for Rajya Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu?
https://theprint.in/politics/who-is-christopher-tilak-congresss-unusual-choice-for-rajya-sabha-seat-in-tamil-nadu/2870418/
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Iranian warship torpedoed by US submarine:Questions,political blamegame in India & Tehran's 2 navies
CutTheClutter: Iranian warship torpedoed by US submarine:Questions,political blamegame in India & Tehran's 2 navies
ThePrintPoliticallyCorrect: 'Nitish Kumar’s exit is good for Bihar. It’s the beginning of the JD(U)’s end & BJP’s supremacy'
What compelled Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to pave the way for the likely installation of a BJP CM? What does it mean to the BJP, the JD(U) and the Opposition RJD?…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: US-Israel war on Iran: Why Trump-Netanyahu regime change goal is perilous, learnings from ME
CutTheClutter: US-Israel war on Iran: Why Trump-Netanyahu regime change goal is perilous, learnings from ME
ThePrintOpinion: 'Don’t frame Modi's Israel visit as ‘this hurts Indian Muslims’,We don’t mix faith & foreign policy'
'Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel has not only dominated domestic headlines but also gained sharp attention in international circles. The timing…

ThePrintThePrintPod: India, Canada agree to cooperate in fight against ‘terrorism, extremism’ as Modi, Carney reset ties
Carney is 1st Canadian PM in 8 years to have a bilateral India visit. Ties nosedived almost 3 years ago after Canada's allegations that New Delhi was of…
ThePrintThePrintPod: Judge’s ‘selective reading’: CBI’s 974-page challenge to Kejriwal discharge order in excise policy case
On 27 February, a Delhi trial court dismissed the CBI case against the 23 accused in the Delhi liquor policy case, slamming the CBI for procedural lapses &…
ThePrintThePrintPod: China’s long shadow over the upcoming Nepal elections—Red Lines and regional rivalries
China has been quieter since the Gen-Z Movement in Nepal, considering Beijing has its own red lines, especially after Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989—a…
ThePrintThePrintPOD: What closure of Strait of Hormuz means for India’s oil & gas supply
ThePrintPOD: What closure of Strait of Hormuz means for India’s oil & gas supply
ThePrintNational Interest Pod: Pakistan is fighting a two-front war - 2011 National Interest predicted it, 15 years ago
A semi-war has broken out on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border involving jets, drones & artillery. A 2011 National Interest headlined “Leave Af to Pak” had…
ThePrintCutTheClutter: Political & legal implications as Kejriwal,Sisodia,21 others get a clean chit in Delhi liquor 'scam'
CutTheClutter: Political & legal implications as Kejriwal,Sisodia,21 others get a clean chit in Delhi liquor 'scam'