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A protester holds a placard during a demonstration near the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem on October 31, calling for the formation of a Jewish-Arab coalition government.
ISRAELI ELECTIONS

Arab voters trump Netanyahu

Iftikhar Gilani
Samajwadi Party and Congress workers and supporters atop a bus moving towards the Ramlila ground for the INDIA bloc rally in New Delhi on November 1.
FROM THE SIDELINES

Congress needs SP horsepower to drive its Uttar Pradesh campaign

Saba Naqvi
A BLO checking the Draft Voter List in Sangareddy, Telangana on August 19, 2026.
Special Intensive Revision

The SIR’s paper trail: erroneous minutes, missing lists, and a death marked ‘shifted’

An audit of the process in Telangana shows where it broke—unverified online forms, BLOs deferring to BLAs, rollbacks that came too late—and what it cost electors who had done nothing wrong.
Ayesha Minhaz

Videos

INDIA bloc’s November 1 Ramlila Maidan rally | Explainer
INDIA bloc’s November 1 Ramlila Maidan rally | Explainer
SIR must be rolled back: Prashant Bhushan
Restore the 22 lakh voters first: Prasenjit Bose
Why does casteism persist in Indian campuses? | Frontline Insight Box
Police must be free from politics: Meeran Chadha Borwankar
Can Kashmir reclaim its autonomy? | Mohammad Sayeed Malik
Maharashtra is running dry | A Frontline Perspectives Documentary
John Brittas on Delhi Police brutality, protests and the SIR | SpeakEasy episode 25
Sahil Wakode’s death and caste discrimination at IIT Bombay | Deepali Salve
Why Kashmiri language matters | Onaiza Drabu on literature and identity | Frontline Conversations
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Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, along with INDIA bloc leaders, waves to the crowd during a rally at Ramlila Maidan, in New Delhi, on November 1, 2026.
PERSPECTIVE

INDIA is reborn at Ramlila Maidan, but…

With perhaps only two years to get its act together, the INDIA bloc must build a durable alliance, a common programme, and a single face, or throw away the opening the people have provided once again.
Anand Teltumbde
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal address a press conference in Amritsar on June 28, 2026.
PERSPECTIVE

AAP at a crossroads: Divorced from INDIA bloc, struggling in Punjab

The AAP’s troubles go beyond the upcoming Punjab Assembly election. Its internal divisions, weakening opposition credentials, and uncertain national standing point to a larger crisis of political direction.
Sayantan Ghosh
The proposed Saidongar-I pumped storage project in Karjat, Maharashtra, threatens 32,490 trees across 233 hectares of forest land, prompting protests and a temporary halt to felling.
Deforestation

Karjat tree felling raises questions about the cost of green energy

With Maharashtra fast-tracking pumped storage projects, the loss of thousands of trees in the Sahyadris puts the focus on villagers, wildlife and whether compensatory afforestation works.
Gautam Nirmal Doshi
US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at Salina Regional Airport in Salina, Kansas, on November 1, 2026.
US MIDTERM ELECTION 2026

Democrats seize US Congress in midterm landslide, hand Trump stinging rebuke

Democrats win the Senate and House, pick up governorships and state legislatures as voters revolt over soaring living costs, tariffs, and the Iran war.
Frontline News Desk

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Citizenship and the law

Red-hot, slow-drip, state-enabled: how hate speech works

COMMENT

What India’s student protesters can learn from Serbia’s electoral success

POLITICS OF DEATH PENALTY

The gallows and the land

NEWS ANALYSIS

Ruhullah Mehdi’s exit: Can the National Conference contain its own dissent?

PUBLIC HEALTH

India’s unequal burden of unregistered deaths

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Zhaparov, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov walk after a group photo session during a meeting of the Council of Leaders of the Organization of Turkic States in Ankara, Türkiye, October 30, 2026.

Will Turkic gas go the Arab oil way?

Iftikhar Gilani
The hero with schoolgirl braids in The Paradise is not masculinity that is comfortable with the feminine.

The expendable women of Tamil and Telugu cinema

Prathyush Parasuraman
Security personnel patrolling Lal Chowk in Srinagar on August 15, 2026.

Inside Kashmir today

Instead of extending love and affection to Kashmiris, the Centre has created an echo chamber that totally excludes the Kashmiri voice. What Modi-Shah need to understand is that their favourite Zionist model will not work in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his supporters on October 25, the day of the presidential runoff election in São Paulo, Brazil.

The idea has won

Srinivasan Ramani
A drone view shows Adi community settlements at risk of submersion if the proposed 11,500 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Dam Project is completed, in Riew village, Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, on August 1, 2025.

People power vs hydropower

Vedaant Lakhera

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Stories in stone

A lavishly designed book on the Ellora Caves helps us reappreciate their otherworldly beauty.
Soumitra Das

Arts & Culture

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The opposition leaders’ protest march from Parliament to the ECI office in New Delhi on October 6, 2026.
ECI Credibility Crisis

The Election Commission’s decade of declining credibility

The ECI’s decisions began to be tracked and critiqued by the opposition from 2017 onwards. Since then, the censure has only grown louder, with each exposé reducing the credibility of this once-venerated institution.
Soni Mishra
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ECI credibility crisis

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Vaishna Roy
ECI credibility crisis

The unmaking of the Indian citizen

Yamini Aiyar
ECI CREDIBILITY CRISIS

Tracing the fall

Sarthak Bagchi
ECI CREDIBILITY CRISIS

Wanted: Complete overhaul

Parakala Prabhakar
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