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Editorial

Given its track record, can the Congress pull off a solo act?

15-05-2026

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s recent speech claiming “Only the Congress can defeat the BJP” is directed at his party’s regional allies. He declared that none of them were capable of taking on the ruling party: “All the other parties will not be able to stand against them (the BJP); they will not be able to unite, and only the Congress will be left standing, and we will defeat them.”

India’s forex satyagrah: The design must match ambition

15-05-2026

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal last week, with its eleven specific requests spanning fuel, gold, fertillisers, cooking oil, solar pumps, and foreign travel, is being read by many as a prelude to administered price hikes. But there is a larger ambition visible in the speech. It is to make forex conservation a genuine national movement, a civic mobilisation comparable in spirit, if not in form, to Mahatma Gandhi

NEET is far from being neat

15-05-2026

The Union government has suffered the deep embarrassment of having to cancel the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 for medical seats, frustrating 22 lakh aspirants who wrote the examination on May 3. They must take a fresh test now. Preliminary reports of this year’s fiasco point to leaked questions in biology and chemistry in Rajasthan that then circulated to multiple cities and other states.

In Assam, challenge of governance

15-05-2026

The massive turnout of dignitaries at the swearing-in ceremony of Himanta Biswa Sarma underlined how significant Assam has become for the BJP and the broader National Democratic Alliance. The presence of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and several chief ministers reflected the ruling party’s confidence and satisfaction over its achievement in the state.

It’s time to embrace AI with policy vision to stay relevant

14-05-2026

The news of Sony AI’s Zürich team, led by Peter Dürr, publishing their research paper in Nature (April 22, 2026) under the title “Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot” has hogged global headlines, including in the FPJ, which featured it on the front page in its Sunday edition, April 26.

A broken re-entry pipeline for India’s skilled women

14-05-2026

India’s growth story rests, in part, on a quiet assumption: that talent will find its way to opportunity. But for millions of women attempting to return to work after a career break, the pathway is not just narrow; it is structurally obstructed.

BJP’s Assam, W. Bengal wins may impact India-B’desh ties

13-05-2026

Veteran politician Dinesh Trivedi’s crucial assignment as New Delhi’s man in Dhaka to improve recently fragile Indo-Bangladesh ties just got more challenging. He could be severely handicapped by the recent poll outcome in Assam and West Bengal, both bordering Bangladesh, further consolidating the BJP’s stranglehold on the north-eastern state and sweeping to power for the first time in the only remaining Opposition citadel in the East.

Kerala CM delay shows RaGa hasn’t learnt from the past

13-05-2026

The Congress party’s unusually long delay in naming its new chief minister for Kerala was simply baffling. The speed the Congress leadership showed in dumping their long-time ally DMK and siding with the TVK in Tamil Nadu was nowhere visible in the case of Kerala.

Mothering Mumbai: City needs compassionate governance

12-05-2026

As the world reflected on Mother’s Day yesterday, a day associated with care, protection, and the countless invisible acts that make everyday life smoother for those we love, perhaps that is also the question Mumbai must ask itself today:

Lessons on women’s quota all the way from Latin America

12-05-2026

Politics in India was once a stern moral drama. Today, it has become a ribald vaudeville, full of scandal and pantomime. Politics was always a game. Now it has become an ugly game and a soap opera. Media constructs have become crucial for success.

Decoding BJP’s Bengal sweep and saffron surge across India

11-05-2026

Not long ago, exit polls in India were treated as a sort of reliable post-poll indicators, not precise forecasts. But lately, they have become an election-night drama and a narrative-building exercise.

Miranda Priestly, the Boss Lady, marches on in stilettos

11-05-2026

Twenty years ago, when The Devil Wears Prada was released, women in top positions of power were relatively rare. The number has inched up, but not by much.