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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. In this Tamil Nadu special, we found out the details behind DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran’s astonishing legal notice to his brother Kalanithi Maran alleging a massive corporate…

Today marks 50 years since the Emergency. But worry not – today’s newspapers and broadcast channels, with their responsible, independent-minded, and utterly value-based coverage, will surely remind you.

Over the past four years, there has been an unprecedented surge in right-wing populist victories across the globe. From the US and El Salvador to Italy, Hungary, and even India, populist leaders have either returned to power or have emerged with strong mandates. 

A delicate ceasefire appears to exist between Israel and Iran after an intervention by the US in what president Donald Trump called the “12-day war”.

दुनिया का आसमान चौतरफा मिसाइल और बमों की आमदरफ्त से भरा हुआ था. किसकी मिसाइल किसके ऊपर गिर रही है इसका अब कोई मतलब नहीं बचा था. बम और बारिश के माहौल में धृतराष्ट्र कई दिनों बाद दरबार में पहुंचे थे. डंकापति के सवाल पर संजय ने धृतराष्ट्र को बताया…

India’s housing dream has been slipping out of reach for a while – but now the story seems to be becoming true even for the richie-rich.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of “shooting arrows in the dark” after the latter’s remarks on “vote theft” in the 2024 Maharashtra elections.

In the first five months of 2025, 305 samples of a wide range of drugs – including lifesaving medication – drawn from pharmacies across Karnataka failed quality tests. Nearly a quarter failed more than one test, and almost half were injectable drugs. These tests were done by Karnataka’s Drug Control…

The manipulation of historical memory is often inseparable from the pursuit of political power. In Bangladesh, successive governments have used state machinery to revise official narratives about the 1971 Liberation War and post-independence politics. However, the current interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus appears to be undertaking the most far-reaching transformation yet.