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Last week, BJP leaders were rejoicing over news that the Congress’s Jitin Prasada was joining their ranks, seemingly oblivious of a similar crisis unfolding in their own party in West Bengal, where national vice-president Mukul Roy was returning to t

On May 28, the Centre issued a notification stating that collectors in 13 districts across Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab and home secretaries of Punjab and Haryana, have been given the power to grant citizenship to immigrants f

The Nita Ambani-headed Reliance Foundation recently donated 10 all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and 270 weatherproof tents to the Mumbai Police. Shiv Sena scion Aaditya Thackeray is said to be behind the move to approach the foundation for a donation, whi

For the past week, Jammu and Kashmir has been rife with rumours of all sorts, ranging from Jammu being bestowed standalone statehood to New Delhi extending an olive branch to the mainstream political parties in the erstwhile state. But nothing has be

With the assembly election in Punjab due in February next year, political parties and pollsters, veteran leaders and wannabes are all busy sussing out possibilities. On June 12, at a political event in Chandigarh, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukh

Differences between top leaders of the AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) have been sharpening ever since the party’s assembly election debacle in April. In a series of recent moves, former chief minister E.K. Palaniswami (EPS) has sou

Y.S. Sharmila, the sister of Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, launched her YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) in the neighbouring state on July 8. She is banking on a walkathon to propel her political career, this being her family’s sig

IN the beginning of April, Covid came knocking for the Bhatias, a family of five, who live in Bengaluru’s Banaswadi neighbourhood. The second wave had yet to assume its brutal proportions; most of the family, including two teenagers aged 18 and 17, g

Temporary fibrosis or possible scarring of lung tissue, causing post-Covid breathlessness Injury to the heart, thrombosis or internal inflammation can reflect in abnormal liver function test Joint and muscle pain commonly reported as the body takes t

My Covid journey was not easy. The first nine days were horrible. My fever persisted, I was extremely tired and my body ached—my skin, nails, even eyelashes, hurt. My mother, who had developed fibrosis in her lungs, had to be hospitalised for 10 days

On June 2, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced 33 per cent reservations for women in the state’s medical and engineering colleges, marking another watershed in his determined push to empower women in a state where patriarchal mores have held

I got Covid in mid-April along with my husband and two children. My viral load was extremely high, probably due to multiple exposure. I started showing symptoms on Day 3 after my vaccination. In fact, my body’s reaction to the vaccine over the first

I tested positive for Covid two months ago and was hospitalised after my oxygen levels fell due to early-stage fibrosis. But I responded well to the medication, largely steroids, and returned home within a few days. Gradually, the drugs I was on were

Covid has been worse than just a health nightmare—it has also crippled many families in India financially. A handful of facts highlights this starkly. India has seen just under 30 million Covid cases and 377,000 deaths (those are official statistics,

The recent unsavoury public spat between the Union government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the West Bengal government of chief minister Mamata Banerjee over an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer is not the first such episode in th

155/ 52 howitzer Designed by: DRDO Produced by: Tata Power SED and Bharat Forge Status: Successfully completed high altitude PSQR trials in Sikkim between Jan. and Mar. 2021; firing in extreme temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius below zero and high

The ‘encounter’ death of Kanpur-based don Vikas Dubey, while he was in transit with a Uttar Pradesh police contingent, had the nation transfixed in July last year. Dubey’s gang killed seven policemen in an ambush in Bikaru village of Kanpur district

Average number of devotees visiting the shrine daily before the work began Weight of the 930,000 cubic feet of black granite used to build the temple No. of stone statues adorning the temple towers and compound Gold used for 2 mm plating of the ne

An artificial plateau has come up on a hillock at Yadagirigutta, some 70 km northeast of Hyderabad, and what was once a modest cave shrine has been transformed into a grand temple. Labourers are braving the torrid summer heat to build an ornate 330 f

155/ 52 howitzer Manufactured by: Elbit, Israel Status: Elbit finished as lowest bidder in the Indian Army’s towed gun contract in 2019. Procurement case pending in the MoD with DG (acquisitions). Army, citing urgent operational necessity, wants 40

Quarantined ships, a pesky-looking flea, homes being disinfected, a hospital under attack—in artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s ‘Drawing the Bombay Plague’, the city’s 1896 pandemic comes alive in all its dramatic imagery. Whether containment measures, ma

Few yoga studios are as familiar as Anshuka Parwani’s in Bandra, Mumbai. A reliable celebrity-spotting location, paparazzi hover outside its gate to click the entry and exit of actresses like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt and Anan

After a year’s delay, Euro 2020 kicked off on June 11 in Rome, in front of a small but loud crowd. It seemed apt, poignant. Italy had suffered more and earlier than most due to the Covid-19 pandemic and here, perhaps, was a sign that something resemb

You can look at Portal as a kind of ‘photo book’, as a diary-cum-scrapbook, or as as a folder full of notes, photos and clippings bracketed by two short texts. This cluster of images and writings cleaves to a basic narrative, like muscles, veins and

Q. In Sherni, You play a forest officer trying to capture a troubled tigress. Had you seen a tiger in the wild before? No, but when my niece and nephew visited Tadoba (National Park in Maharashtra), they had sent me many pictures and videos of tigers