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Jul 8, 2025 • 5min

ThePrintPod: Centre’s school education assessment flags learning gaps—Maths least favourite, govt schools lag behind

PARAKH survey, conducted for 21 lakh+ students across Class 3, 6 & 9, showed average performance in Mathematics & Language fell as students moved to higher grades. Rural-urban divide evident.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 6min

ThePrintPod: India to acquire 5th-gen fighters as interim solution? Defence secy says talks with partners are ongoing

With AMCA rollout expected to take a decade, Defence Secretary Rajesh Singh confirms talks for fifth-gen jets amid reports of Pakistan acquiring Chinese stealth fighters.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 7min

ThePrintPod: Liberals don’t want Muslim women to demand rights in the Hindutva era. There’s no right time

As Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker-winning ‘Heart Lamp’ shows, Muslim women seeking justice are neither a figment of imagination, nor a part of some political conspiracy.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 16min

FirstPersonSecondDraft: With 7 months & 54 MPs, Chandra Shekhar should’ve been India’s weakest PM but was its most decisive

FirstPersonSecondDraft: With 7 months & 54 MPs, Chandra Shekhar should’ve been India’s weakest PM but was its most decisive
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Jul 8, 2025 • 5min

ThePrintAM: What's behind the war of words between Owaisi & Rijiju?

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Jul 8, 2025 • 12min

ThePrintAM: WHY HAS CHIRAG PASWAN STEPPED UP ATTACK ON CM NITISH BEFORE BIHAR POLLS?

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Jul 7, 2025 • 27min

CutTheClutter: Marathi unites Thackerays: What Uddhav gains from 'irrelevant' cousin Raj & impact in Maharashtra

DK Singh, a political analyst at ThePrint, dives deep into the intricate dynamics of Maharashtra politics, focusing on the Thackeray family. He discusses Uddhav's strategic gains from reconciling with cousin Raj, whose electoral relevance is fading. The conversation touches on the significant impact of Marathi identity in upcoming elections and the changing linguistic landscape of Mumbai. Singh explores family rivalries and the shifting voter sentiments that could reshape the political future of the region.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 7min

ThePrintPod: Centre sets ball rolling on residual gold extraction from Kolar Gold Fields 24 yrs after its closure

Mines ministry is fine-tuning modalities to auction nine tailing dumps at Karnataka’s Kolar Gold Fields. Worth of minerals in dumps estimated at Rs 25,000-30,000 crore.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 10min

ThePrintPod: Operation Sindoor showed us MPs can do what foreign ministries can’t

While diplomats talk numbers and protocol, legislators tell stories. One persuades the head, the other moves the heart. Our Parliament could be the world’s best conflict-prevention tool.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 4min

ThePrintPod: ‘Calculated step’, or ‘disastrous’ in long run? NMC relaxes medical faculty recruitment norms

Norms unveiled 5 July are a major step towards unlocking existing human resource potential within govt health systems & optimising medical education infra, says Commission.

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