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13/12/2025

Opinion | The ideological and substantive shift in American security and foreign policy contained in the US National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025, released last week, did not surprise us. It is now abundantly clear that the US no longer guarantees world order.

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The Pax Americana, as we have known it for the past 70 years is in its last throes, and the maneuvers of the Donald Trump administration will only serve to hasten its end.

13/12/2025

Opinion | On the morning of 8 December 2025, when the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court announced that Malayalam actor Dileep had been acquitted of all charges in the 2017 abduction and sexual assault of a popular Malayalam actor, the reaction across India was that of an expected and exhausted kind of fury. It shocked nobody.

We should have been raging in the streets. But given that we’re living the Sisyphean sequel nobody asked for, fighting one battle after another (from environmental crisis to economic failures), we have become selective in our rage.

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13/12/2025

Opinion | India’s climate justice movement has a new opponent, and it isn’t a coal baron or a reluctant foreign donor but it is a spreadsheet. While activists rightly target fossil fuel subsidies and emissions targets, a quieter crisis is undermining the foundation of a fair green transition, which is the country’s own economic data.

India’s outdated economic data and a “C-grade” IMF rating are hampering fair climate action. Poor data obscures the informal sector and green economy, risking unjust transitions.

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13/12/2025

More and more officers in charge are now flaunting demolitions on Instagram reels.
Police officers like ACP Dinesh Kumar who post these reels in their uniform, violate the guidelines of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) for social media usage by government employees.
Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora in 2023 issued a similar memo reiterating it as “abuse of the uniform.”

The influence of such reels can also be charted through the positive engagement of the public with such reels. There are many comments on these reels that invite these officers to conduct similar bulldozer-led encroachment drives in their areas too, in what can only be construed as a dogwhistle for the normalisation of what is endearingly termed as ‘bulldozer justice’.

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13/12/2025

Kolkata turned into an absolute bedlam of chaos and mayhem, as Lionel Messi's GOAT Tour took an unfortunate turn. Messi took an early escape, Shah Rukh Khan fled the scene, thousands of chairs were uprooted, dugouts were burnt and fans ended up getting lathi-charged by police after failing to see the superstar despite spending thousands. reports from the ground.

13/12/2025

Opinion | The rupee sank to 90.42 to a US dollar on 4 December before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened to pull it back to just above Rs 90 to a dollar. This decline is due to persistent trade deficits, weak capital inflows, and less liquid forex reserves writes former Finance & Economic Affairs Secretary, Subhash Chandra Garg.

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13/12/2025

Opinion | The Dileep verdict is not just about one case. It is about a system that protects the powerful at every turn, writes Debiparna Chakraborty. Read:

Malayalam actor Dileep's clean chit shows that laws alone cannot fix a culture where women who speak up or dare to have a mind of their own are punished by process and society, long before their cases ever reach judgment.

13/12/2025

Do you remember the famous Lockie Ferguson expression? When he was left speechless by MS Dhoni leaving the ball in the 2019 World Cup semi-final, despite the required run rate being 9+?

Six years on, Lockie tells that he is still surprised at Dhoni leaving a ball that most players would've sent for a six.

12/12/2025

From Dynasties to Democracy | From forced conversions in 1947 to lynchings now, a new book chronicles history of communal violence in Rajasthan. Read the excerpt from and 's book: https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/rajasthan-cow-protection-meo-muslim-hindutva-lynching-bjp-hate-crime





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12/12/2025

“When you can't change the metric, change the metric.”

In the latest saga of pollution-related headlines you didn't want to read, the government told Parliament that global air-quality rankings come from no ‘official’ authority, and that WHO pollution limits are merely advisory — not binding.

Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said the WHO's guidelines are meant to help countries set their own standards, taking into account geography, environmental conditions, background levels and national circumstances. He said India has already notified its National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for 12 pollutants to protect public health and environmental quality.

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12/12/2025

Fact-Check | A post is being circulated on the internet claiming that an Indian navy officer named Abhishek Chakraborty had purportedly participated in 'Operation Black Cobra'. However, there is no evidence to prove the claims.

12/12/2025

On the latest episode of 🎙️Tell Me All with The Quint, Madhuri Dixit () speaks to our Entertainment Editor and shares the spontaneous behind-the-scenes moment that made ‘Ek Do Teen’ the iconic song that it is today, navigating four decades as one of Bollywood’s most loved stars, her upcoming Jio series ‘Mrs Deshpande’,  and more.

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