Opinion: 'Earlier, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), the premier agency of the Government of India for investigating GST frauds, detected a beneficiary firm in Jaipur that had availed itself of ineligible credit from shell firms operating in Sonipat and Delhi through goods-less, fake invoices. During further investigation, it was found that a Ghaziabad-based resident was engaged in the creation, operation and sale of shell firms (registered with GST and having active GST Numbers—GSTINs) to pass on ineligible ITC for a commission. This individual passed on ineligible credit (GST fraud) of Rs 1,033 crore through 294 shell firms he created and received a commission of 1.25 per cent of the taxable value.'

Avinash Pandey, civil servant in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) with experience in trade, technology and security, writes


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India's cyber frontier no longer ends at its territorial boundary. It runs through smartphones, servers, crypto wallets and sometimes through a guarded compound in Myanmar’s Myawaddy. Rami Niranjan Desai, a Fellow at the India Foundation, explains

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Viksit Bharat 2047 is a self-defeating slogan. PM Modi should listen to what ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi had told the US Congress in 1985, ThePrint Political Editor DK Singh explains

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'The outcome is very clear to us, this is the Munir law in Pakistan,' former Imran Khan aide Mirza Shahzad Akbar tells Debdutta Chakraborty on emergency rule being imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Can the US really reduce its trade deficit without weakening the dollar’s global role? How are the common people of Iran living with huge inflation? Watch #Bidishanomics with ThePrint Consulting Editor (Economics) Dr. Bidisha Bhattacharya and Apoorva Mandhani

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From NASA to ISRO, space agencies are working towards establishing a sustained human presence on the lunar surface. In this episode of ThePrint #PureScience, Soumya Pillai brings the story of humanity's interest in lunar settlements

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On 12 October, the Delhi Police de-notified Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site, and announced three alternative sites — Burari Ground, Ramlila Ground, and CBD Ground. The decision came two days after the national capital saw heightened security, with three layers of barricades, and 40,000 personnel deployed to prevent protesters from reaching Jantar Mantar.

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IIT Madras wants to bring engineering deeper into medical education, with plans for a School of Medical Sciences & an on-campus hospital. Director Prof V Kamakoti speaks to ThePrint's Sneha Richhariya about the proposed model

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This is the National Cancer Tissue Biobank (NCTB), established at IIT Madras in 2015. Biobanks are organised repositories that collect and preserve biological samples, such as tumour tissue, blood and DNA, along with patients’ medical records, so researchers can use them for future studies. 

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It may be comforting to highlight, as some analysts have, that the AIADMK, which secured a little over 25 per cent of the popular vote in both constituencies, has been far from annihilated. But while a quarter of the vote in a three-cornered race may pass as a respectable loss, this holds good only as an abstraction. A granular examination of the AIADMK’s performance reflects some unflattering truths.

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Opinion: 'It is a page from Pakistan’s old playbook. Whenever the establishment has felt threatened by a provincial premier’s powers, or by a province exercising its own autonomy, it has used a pretext, whether law and order or otherwise, to dismiss that government. The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and its coalition partner, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), would be rejoicing that their common opposition is no longer in power. It was PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif who advised the move and PPP’s Asif Ali Zardari who signed it. Let this not, though, be mistaken for unity.'

Bantirani Patro writes

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Onion inflation in the CPI basket reached 108 percent year-on-year, as per data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Figures from the Department of Consumer Affairs show that the average all-India retail price of onion rose from Rs 27.4 per kilogram in September 2025 to Rs 52.8 in September this year. According to the RBI’s October monetary policy report, this increase reflects depleted and partially spoiled rabi stocks, alongside uncertainty over kharif arrivals due to uneven rainfall.

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Pakistan is now the chief of debt-ridden countries. Will lead new UN-backed body—Debdutta Chakraborty brings the details

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Opinion: 'In the current-day cacophony of social media voices (where practically anyone with a smartphone can be a “journalist”), and adding the shrill attempts of TV anchors and even newspapers to create clickbait headlines in order to compete with instant social media virality, it is highly unlikely that the average citizen can come anywhere close to real “facts”. Consider the typical human tendency to listen more to people they like than those they dislike, add the social media algorithms that feed the same echo chamber, and voters are more likely to be influenced by shrillness and “feel” rather than the underlying reality, or the truth.'

R Jagannathan, editor and the former editorial director at Swarajya magazine, writes

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After he took charge of India’s missile programme at DRDO, which earned him the moniker ‘Missile Man of India’, Kalam worked as a professor at Anna University in Chennai in 2001. He continued teaching after his tenure as the President of India from 2002 to 2007 ended, taking up various positions at Anna University, the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. 

On Kalam's 95th birth anniversary, read #ThePrintFeature by Akanksha Mishra

India is vulnerable on the energy front but ranks in the top quartile for AI exposure, alongside Taiwan, Korea, China and Vietnam. The similarities end there. These economies benefit from the AI cycle primarily through exports, tying them to a boom that the IMF warns “could stop abruptly” if expectations of AI profits are revised. India’s growth, by contrast, is “supported by domestic demand and services.” This reflects the home-market effect formalised by economist Paul Krugman in 1980: firms benefit from scale and tend to cluster where their largest markets are, making a substantial domestic market a springboard rather than a constraint.

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India’s hankering for speedy, last-minute deliveries has created a whole new business model for rental electric two-wheelers. Companies such as Yulu, Bijliride and Eveez have found a much more lucrative market in delivery agents than the office-goers they started out targeting.

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'Every nation and also the space faring nations are going through certain socio economic challenges, there is limited time and resources available for these nations to give priority for the big mission like space based solar powered satellite. However the nations have certain essential initial step towards realising this bigger mission.'

On the 95th birth anniversary of Dr Kalam, read his full speech given at the 32nd International Space Development Conference in California in May 2013.

'Rubio’s message to the non-Western world is clear. The West, led by Rubio’s America, intends to remain “at the head”, implying that it will do its best not to give up its dominant position.'

Serial entrepreneur and columnist Jaithirth Rao writes

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Opinion: 'Over fifty years ago, Sri Lanka and India signed two maritime boundary agreements—one in 1974 and the other in 1976—defining the International Maritime Boundary Line and establishing the respective maritime jurisdictions of the two countries, including Sri Lanka’s sovereignty over Katchatheevu. The agreements did not grant Indian fishermen traditional fishing rights in Sri Lankan waters, nor did they provide reciprocal rights to Sri Lankan fishermen in Indian waters.'

Milinda Moragoda, former Sri Lankan Cabinet minister, writes

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