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By Development Data Lab's measure, using population, built-up area, and night lights to identify urban footprint, Delhi is the largest, while Chennai and Bengaluru switch places, depending on the boundary used.

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The death of parents is life's oldest certainty. Yet many spend years trying to outrun it — tracking heart rates from afar, stocking medicines and delaying dreams, all while dreading the day they stop being someone's child.

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We thought Gen Z had no politics because it spoke in memes, not manifestos. The exam protests showed how badly we had misread them — they were not without beliefs, just unwilling to borrow ours.

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Lawyer Shahrukh Alam explains why the policing of the July 20 youth protest raises concerns over excessive force, surveillance, arbitrary detention and the growing criminalisation of dissent.

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The outgoing German ambassador argues New Delhi-Berlin ties have broadened.

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Fixing paper leaks is one thing. Bigger challenge is that India’s examination system has outgrown its institutional capacity. Here are five ideas for scaling it up, distributing risk, increasing accountability.

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Pakistan's foreign policy may be on the rise. But at home, insurgencies and public anger continue to challenge the state.

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For a generation obsessed with all things Korean, online groomers posing as talent scouts are selling fake auditions, stardom and a route to Seoul that doesn’t exist.

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While declining to cancel a bail order issued by Chhattisgarh High Court, the SC recently warned against a growing tendency of invoking Article 136, which grants the apex court special power to allow appeals against any judgment.

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Informed, intelligent, irreverent, this was a unique movement that channelled anger through humour and gave India a new language of protest.

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Five ordinary protesters arrived intending only to march. By nightfall, one had stopped a police van, another exposed an alleged threat, a third stayed for detained women, and a law student opened a van door — becoming unintended symbols of resistance.

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Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation marks a rare setback for the Modi government and a political opening for the opposition, as Gen Z’s anger over education and jobs emerges as a defining issue ahead of crucial state and national elections.

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The roach rebellion reminded us that when establishment action or inaction cuts deep at individual levels, normally quiet citizens can pose the sharpest questions to governing classes.

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Argument is answerable but humour is ungovernable. That’s what young protesters gloriously demonstrated. There’s no playbook for this protest – Gen Z invented it.

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Every week, TOI+ subscribers ask questions about their health and India’s top doctors reply with clear, evidence-based guidance. From heart disease to diabetes, cancer to mental health, Hello, Doctor connects you directly with experts you can trust.

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People are living longer, but not healthier. A new analysis finds that the gap between lifespan and healthspan widened globally from 8.8 years in 1990 to 10.7 years in 2023, with India showing a similar trend.

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Sonam Wangchuk has spent years fixing failing schools, building ice stupas to fight water shortage, and occasionally starving himself to be heard. Sunday Times traces his journey.

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After the protests began, some 47 officials of the NTA were sacked in an "overhaul". But why does an agency that holds high-stakes tests, and has a surplus of over Rs 500 crore, run on temporary workers?

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Across India, youth-led protests are sparking conflicts across homes, as young people challenge political and religious beliefs they inherited, while worried parents see dissent as dangerous, futile or disloyal.

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Individual concerns can be allayed with resignations and sackings. But that a party with sharp political instincts may be losing touch with a generation that will shape India’s future is what should worry it most.

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