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4 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
The honeymoon is over and the sheen is wearing off the National People’s Power coalition in Sri Lanka after some questionable deals it made to control local bodies. The NPP has managed to gain control over a vast majority of the local government organisations in the island nation, but what bothers many is the fact that the NPP entered into deals with “undesirable elements” to capture power in at least 40 of these councils.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
The June 12, 2025, air crash involving an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad has turned the focus on flight safety, but aviation experts demand equal and immediate attention to another important aspect of air operations: airports.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
The stage is set for an exciting contest in the 2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, after the main opposition combine, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), won the bitterly contested byelection in Nilambur on June 23 by a comfortable margin of 11,077 votes. In the two byelections held in 2024 in the State, the UDF had retained its Palakkad seat while the Left Democratic Front (LDF) held on to the Chelakkara seat.
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5 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
Two years after protesters attacked and vandalised a yoga day celebration in the Maldivian capital, Male, the Indian Mission organised the event successfully in the archipelago nation in the open, to mark International Yoga Day on June 21. This time the Indian Mission took care to cater to the sensitivity in the Sunni Islamic nation—it moved the programme to a resort.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
The date was November 22, 2020. Sitting in his Hyderabad office, a political analyst could not believe the survey findings in front of him: it predicted that the BJP was poised to win only about 30 seats in the 150-ward Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election. The election was less than 10 days away, scheduled for December 1. The news was communicated to Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “What happened next is unbelievable. Almost the entire top brass of the BJP landed up in Hyderabad.
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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
As many as three flights involving Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft returned to the port of departure over the past two days in what seems to be a precautionary reaction to the first-ever crash of a 787 aircraft in Ahmedabad soon after take-off on June 12. The Hong Kong-New Delhi Air India Flight 315, which departed from Hong Kong on June 16 after a delay of over three hours, headed back to the airport.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
Until a new, inclusive constitution is developed, Sri Lanka should implement the provisions of the 13th Amendment to its Constitution and hold elections to the provincial councils in the island nation, an academic study has said.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
Despite the speedy investigation and June 2 sentencing of the accused in the Anna University sexual assault case, the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the BJP are not backing down from their charges: both political parties insist that there were serious lapses in the investigation. On December 23, 2024, a girl student was sexually assaulted by a local resident inside the Anna University campus.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
In what is seen as a deliberate and calculated interview to two international media organisations on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Anil Chauhan, acknowledged the loss of Indian air assets on the first day of the war, without quantifying the losses. He was targeted viciously on social media by right-wing trolls aligned with the ruling BJP, just as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri was earlier.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
On May 28, a Mahila Court in Chennai pronounced guilty Gnanasekaran, 37, the lone accused, in the sensational Anna University sexual assault case, on all 11 charges. The court, which delivered the verdict in less than six months after the trial began, said that the quantum of the sentence will be announced on June 2. Gnanasekaran, who has been lodged in Puzhal prison, was present at the Mahila Court, located within the Madras High Court campus, when the verdict was delivered.
