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Following crippling losses and the surrender of a large number of cadres, India’s Maoist insurgents are on their knees. But the insurgency has been crushed several times since its origins in 1948, only to resurface again and again. The story of the Maoists shows that peace won’t be durable unless India is able to address Adivasi and Dalit backwardness in the Maoist belt.

Professor M. Jagadesh Kumar, former UGC Chairperson, in conversation with ThePrint’s Fareeha Iftikhar, explains the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill 2025 introduced in Parliament. He details how the bill will unify regulators, create separate councils for accreditation and standards, enhance transparency through a digital dashboard, and ensure institutions’ autonomy and self-governance are protected while promoting accountability and quality in higher education.

Why BJP picked Pankaj Chaudhary as UP BJP chief?----more----

https://theprint.in/politics/what-bjp-high-commands-pick-pankaj-chaudharys-selection-as-up-bjp-chief-mean-for-yogi-adityanath/2805207/

ThePrintAM: Why BJP picked Pankaj Chaudhary as UP BJP chief?

https://theprint.in/politics/what-bjp-high-commands-pick-pankaj-chaudharys-selection-as-up-bjp-chief-mean-for-yogi-adityanath/2805207/

In 2021, floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli brought back to the fore concerns that the disaster may have been caused by a nuclear device lost close to the Nanda Devi peak during a joint IB-CIA operation. The New York Times has now examined fresh evidence to piece together the sequence of events that ended in the CIA losing a portable “beach-ball-size nuclear device” on the roof of the world. In episode 683 of #CutTheClutter, first published on 15 February 2021, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta recreates this fascinating story of espionage, subterfuge, and mystery in the Cold War.

ThePrintPod: India wasn’t always like this. Things have never been as bad as they are today

ThePrintPod: How China reads US National Security Strategy—a return of America First in new language

IndiGo crisis & how it was handled is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. There’s much to blame IndiGo for, but its greatest crime is to have made the government appear as a saviour in the face of furious public opinion. Watch this week’s national interest with Shekhar Gupta.

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Read here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/indias-top-airline-just-handed-sarkar-the-keys-thats-indigos-real-crime/2804627/ 

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https://theprint.in/india/18-months-after-olympic-heartbreak-vinesh-phogat-announces-return-to-the-mat-the-fire-never-left/2804475/