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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 ThePrint #PoliticallyCorrect https://youtu.be/opw74RFMIlY

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 https://youtu.be/b5UqeC4xMaM

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 Read the full column

The stakes are high. R1 and R2’s release into the wild is only the prologue to a much larger conservation project. The survival of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard is linked to the survival of the desert landscape, which has slowly deteriorated over the past two decades. The bird faces threats from every side: feral dogs hunt it, windmills and solar parks turn its territory into an obstacle race, and high-voltage power lines weave a maze of death traps in the skies. Read the full report

Opinion: 'Being a feminist and a female Muslim academic at a college in Malabar can pit the entire Muslim orthodoxy against you, as Shabnam Noorjahan found out recently. A professor of Zoology at Farook College, Kozhikode, and a vocal Sufi Muslim, Noorjahan has become a thorn in the flesh of the clerical orthodoxy in recent times.' Anand Kochukudy, senior journalist based in Kerala, writes Read the full column