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    As China salami-slices at LAC, India must not decouple border from bilateral ties

    As China fortifies military base, infra at LAC to alter status quo, India can consider negotiating new border framework, set of protocols after reviewing pacts like BDCA of 2013

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    A changing India: How the country has transformed in the past two-and-a-half decades

    On India’s 79th Independence Day, The Federal asks a Septuagenarian and a Gen Z to write about the India they saw growing up and their visions for the country’s future. In this second of a two-part series, a Gen Z recalls the country’s transformation in recent decades.
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      Mourinho review: Netflix series celebrates Portuguese football manager’s wins, glosses over losses

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      Why Operation Safed Sagar premiere in Delhi was a bittersweet moment for the team, audience

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      Operation Safed Sagar review: Why new Netflix series on Kargil mission fails to touch the heart

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      'Neglect of artefacts' to fading memory, why many Gen Z ‘know little’ about young martyr Khudiram Bose

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      How a nationalist media braved British suppression to mobilise masses, play role in India's freedom

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      How Partition left its mark on the culinary tradition of Punjab

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      How RSS, its ally Hindu Mahasabha, opposed Quit India Movement, tricolour national flag

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      Why Operation Safed Sagar premiere in Delhi was a bittersweet moment for the team, audience

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      Sri Lanka raises judges’ retirement age, faces judicial independence row

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      What’s behind Centre’s perplexing outreach to Rahul on Delimitation Bill?

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      Beyond caste and Hindutva: Why Prashant Kishor’s Bankipur win is a big turning point

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      Opposition pushback forces Centre to rethink Lok Sabha expansion, delimitation Bills

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    16 Aug 2026 12:08 PM IST

    PM Modi 80th Independence Day

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    What explains govt’s late U-turn on student protest debate?

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