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One of India’s tectonic political shifts has been the metamorphosis of the BJP from the principal opposition grouping to the world’s largest party, which claims to have a membership of over 150 million. This change was heralded by the arrival of Prim

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Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu has announced a road project to Vijaynagar, one of his state’s remotest regions, in style—with a cross-country trek over two days. Khandu, on March 27, became the first CM to reach Arunachal’s last adminis

NDA constituent Chirag Paswan unsuccessfully challenged BJP ally Janata Dal (United) in the Bihar assembly election last November. Since then, things have gone downhill for Chirag and his Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). Its lone MLC in Bihar, Nutan Singh,

Fake ID The NIA suspects Vaze stayed at the 5-star Trident Hotel in south Mumbai between January and February using a fake Aadhaar card in the name of Sushant Khamkar. The bag scanner at the hotel showed huge cash in his hand bag. Missing evidence

The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) is an autonomous region created under the 6th Schedule of the Constitution to provide self-rule to the Bodo people in four adjoining districts—Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri—in western Assam. The 6th Sche

After losing to the hosts in Adelaide in the first Test of the 2020-21 tour of Australia, having been bowled out for 36 on the morning of 19 December 2020, India held a team meeting around midnight. “We were determined to get past that one bad hour a

In a video titled ‘Simple Kerala Style Chicken Fry’, uploaded on YouTube channel ‘Village Cooking – Kerala’, the sound of heavy rain mingles with the sizzle of chicken cooking in a heady spice mix of coriander, red chilli and pepper. In the videos, s

Despite the bitter struggle between Mamata and Suvendu Adhikari, the TMC campaign in Nandigram is being run out of a house owned by Adhikari’s election agent. Part of the building had been leased to the TMC before Adhikari left for the BJP, and the s

A friend recently remarked that Siddharth Chowdhury, whose fourth offering is a novella, The Time of the Peacock, is India’s most underrated writer. Perhaps, instead, it’s India’s literary ecosystem that’s overrated. Chowdhury’s mind is like a glacie

Adhering to safety norms: safe distancing at the workplace, keeping shop floors/ offices sanitised, wearing masks Better cost controls, be it purchase of raw materials, managing supply chains or day-today operations Avoiding inventory pile-up by

In Burqa Boxers, one of the protagonists rents a police uniform costume. She has realised that her dream of becoming a policewoman will remain just that, but she wants to live it out nevertheless. She gets photographs clicked in a studio while wearin

Bollywood without the undercover femalecop islike Khal Nayak without Madhuri Dixit. There remains something iconic about her Inspector Ganga crooning “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai”, while pretending to be a street girl. Juhi Chawla effortlessly sways bet

Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani’s ‘Lunch with CM’ initiative has him breaking bread once a month with members of various communities. Now, his Goa counterpart, Pramod Sawant, has borrowed the idea. ‘Coffee with CM’ will be Sawant’s monthly connec

6.2 mn people will gain access to drinking water and 1.06 mn ha will be irrigated, according to the Jal Shakti ministry 6,017 hectares of forests will be submerged, including 4,206 hectares inside the Panna Tiger reserve ₹35,111 cr The total cost o

There appears to be no end to the promises being made to voters in Bengal. Aside from poll pledges, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee has been promising rewards to those willing to protect EVMs (electronic voting machines) against tamper

This documentary tells the story of how a group of intrepid reporters came to find that young gymnasts were being sexually abused by USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. A 20-year-old female sumo wrestler dares to challenge the rules of the tradition