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Pro-jallikattu protesters and the police clash near Marina beach in Chennai on January 23, 2017. The report by the Justice S. Rajeswaran Commission of Inquiry exonerated the police from committing any excesses during the protests.

FRONTLINE EXCLUSIVE

Tamil Nadu police actions during 2017 Jallikattu protests justified: Justice Rajeswaran commission

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, November 19.

Will Trump break world’s faith in US dollar?

Global markets brace for impact as Trump’s economic threats and spending plans risk undermining international confidence in America’s currency.

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Editor’s Note: Trump’s second coming will reset world’s moral compass

Trump 2.0—The Lede

India’s strategic agility will define its US ties in Trump’s second act

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How Maharashtra’s Ladki Bahin scheme transformed women’s political power | Aditi Tatkare interview

Sri Lanka is the only country in South Asia that has some political hope: Jayadeva Uyangoda

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Editor's Pick

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner (at centre, with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu) has substantial involvement in the Israeli real estate sector. A picture from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017.

Trump’s brand of diplomacy can push the world to the edge

The potential for global unrest is likely to be higher, given Trump’s volatility, transactional approach, and unorthodox diplomatic dealings.

Palestinians walk at a closed street market at sunrise, ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, set to take effect on January 19, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 16, 2025.

FRONTLINE EXCLUSIVE

The high-stakes negotiations that stitched the Israel-Hamas ceasefire

Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani and Egyptian intel chief Abbas Kamel kept the talks moving forward through their calm, dedicated mediation efforts.

Iftikhar Gilani

In November 2024, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, headed by the LG, announced its plan to instal a ropeway for pilgrims. Here, devotees near the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine on January 1, 2025, in Katra, Reasi district, Jammu.

Jammu and Kashmir

Why BJP’s promised prosperity in J&K has done little to quell people’s anger

Despite the saffron party’s best-ever performance in the Assembly election, there has been a festering resentment over its economic policies.

Zaid Bin Shabir

IIT Bombay has scheduled a lecture on “the science of begetting a good progeny.”

IIT Bombay’s ‘Garbhavigyan’ lecture: A reflection of ‘saffronisation’ of educational campuses?

An ‘expert’ to speak on the “science of begetting good progeny”, leaving students, faculty perplexed by the institute’s eroding scientific temper.

Audio Stories

FRONTLINE AT 40 | PUBLIC HEALTH

All is not well

FRONTLINE AT 40 | EDUCATION

The blackboard crisis

The steady immiseration of labour

FRONTLINE at 40 | AGRICULTURE

Agriculture in the age of inequality

Spotlight

During a consultation, a majority of farmers stated that only those who own fewer than 10 acres of farmland should benefit from investment support. Here, farmers in Dulapuram village, Mulugu district, Telangana on November 26, 2024.

Telangana’s Rythu Bharosa: Old promises, new disappointments

PM Narendra Modi presents a cheque to a beneficiary under the Mukhyamantri Mazi Ladki Bahin scheme during a public event, in Thane in October 2024 with then-Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and State Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

Mahayuti’s vote-winning cash scheme for poor women shrinks under financial strain

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant addresses a public meeting at Karad for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, in Satara district on November 13, 2024.

A broken hiring system has spawned the Rs.300 crore cash-for-jobs scam in Goa

With allegations against Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s handling of the issue, the scam threatens to become a major crisis for Goa’s BJP government.

The Kedarnath temple standing amid the destruction caused by massive floods, in June 2013. The Supreme Court initiated an inquiry into the impact of hydroelectric power plants on the environment following the flood in Kedarnath that year.

Ganga asks to be left alone

Mallika Bhanot,C.P. Rajendran

Aerial view of a waterlogged coastal village on Kamorta Island, photographed from an Indian Navy Helicopter on February 28, 2005.

How tsunami aid triggered a social disaster in Nicobar

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