The Quint

15/07/2025

Fact-Check | A misleading post, which talks about the saturation percentage of Aadhaar in poll-bound Bihar and carries figures from Muslim-majority districts, is doing the rounds on social media platforms.

15/07/2025

Opinion | The growing controversy about the manipulation of electoral rolls goes beyond elections. While it may be aimed at winning elections, the strategy itself emanates from the underlying political philosophy of Hindutva — of control, exclusion, and an opposition missing in action. Ajay Gudavarthy writes.

Read here: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/bjp-voter-roll-delhi-hindutva-evolution


[Elections, Hindutva, Government, Politics]

15/07/2025

In December 2020, reports of China’s plan to construct the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in Medog, just 30 kilometres from the Indian border, triggered a familiar pattern in New Delhi: alarm, media soundbites, and hurried statements of concern.

While India rightly flags China’s upstream leverage as dangerous, its own record downstream tells a different story. Sangmuan Hangsing writes.

Read here: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/india-dam-politics-brahmaputra-china-arunachal-pradesh-assam


[India. China, Pakistan, North East, Brahamputra, River, Dam, Indus Water Treaty]

15/07/2025

Opinion | The unflattering new moniker seems to have stuck with Trump. New Delhi cannot afford to antagonise the US when it has a hostile neighbour in the form of China. Sanjay Kapoor writes.
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Trump's TACO policy threatens India's agricultural sector as BRICS faces US hostility and tariff unpredictability.

14/07/2025

Ordinary Indians deserve extraordinary awards for surviving daily chaos. It's crucial we recognise the 'ordinary Indians' who fight the battle of survival—and make it. illustrates.

14/07/2025

Opinion | Released silently online without any fanfare, the 15-page preliminary report by the AAIB on Air India's flight crash was perhaps aimed for minimum exposure but created maximum impact. Dead men tell no tales, and the secret of the flight AI-171 crash may go down with its victims, writes Sanjay Lazar.
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Flight AI-171 Crash of Boeing 787: Preliminary report raises questions on fuel control switches, sparking controversy over investigation transparency.

14/07/2025

Fact-Check | A misleading post is doing the rounds on social media platforms claiming that around 14,000 women were recently found to be suffering from cancer in Maharashtra's Hingoli.

14/07/2025

Fact-Check: Recently, a video aired on social media which showed a mass of people protesting, and the uploader claimed that people in the video are voicing against the release of an upcoming film "Udaipur Files" because of its provocative content

14/07/2025

A photo of DCOAS Lt Gen Rahul R Singh has gone viral with a fabricated statement about Pakistan surprising India with its electronic warfare and C4 intelligence being attributed to him. The statement is fake.

14/07/2025

Fact-Check | An old image from a textbook chapter showing late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini listed as one of the 'most evil people of the world' is being falsely shared as a recent incident.

14/07/2025

Fact-Check: A viral post has claimed that it notes AAIB's report on the Air India aeroplane crash in June. However, PIB denied it. Additionally, the AAIB released its actual report on 12 July.

14/07/2025

Opinion | While India rightly flags China’s upstream leverage as dangerous, its own record downstream tells a different story. India’s dam spree in the Northeast echoes the centralised, top-down logic it criticises. Sangmuan Hangsing writes.
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India’s credibility in countering China’s Medog dam lies not in retaliation but in ecological statecraft—one that invests in climate-resilient infrastructure, decentralised water governance, and honours the floodplains and federal justice.