Good morning, and welcome to today's paper.<br>Four threads run through today's news, and each teaches a distinct lesson in how power is checked — or isn't.<br>First, federalism's fine print: the MMDR Amendment Act shows how a state's constitutional grant can be undone by its own built-in qualifier — read every entry for its exceptions, not just its headline power.<br>Second, institutional memory: Wandhama's reopened probe and Sajjan Kumar's death both ask what accountability looks like decades after the fact — a recurring Mains theme of transitional justice.<br>Third, the limits of a single f
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In Wandhama, Four Houses Are Still Waiting for an Answer
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Turkiye's 468-Vote Bet on Ending a 40-Year War - Without Its Most Important Prisoner
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The "Shared Vision" and the Missing Road: Modi's Central Asia Visit Decoded
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The One Section That Undoes What a Nine-Judge Bench Settled in 2024
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Article 17 Bans "Untouchability" - It Just Never Says What That Word Means
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When "Permanently Shifted" Gets It Wrong: The Constitutional Stakes of Telangana's Electoral Roll Revision
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Nepal's Early-Warning Systems Worked Exactly as Designed. Hundreds Still Died.
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Washington Banned Xinjiang Cotton. A Tiruppur Exporter Is Paying For It.
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SEBI Fixed a Real Manipulation Problem. Right Now, It's Also the Reason Trading Volumes Have Gone Quiet.
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A Project That Loses 500 MW to Save Nothing: The Sharavathi Pumped Storage Contradiction
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Here's Why a Robot That Can Fight Kung Fu Still Can't Sort a Crate
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The Evidence the NIA Never Brought to Court
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The Condolence Call Nobody Could Agree Was Wrong: A GS4 Dilemma in Real Time
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When Symbolism Has To Do The Work Infrastructure Cannot
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India Has Perfected Big Dreams and Neglected the Small Ones That Actually Hold Them Up
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When Warning Cannot Outrun Water: The Technology Trap in Himalayan Disaster Governance
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The Song That Was Never Quite Finished Being Written
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The Three Hours You Promised the Court