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It added up to more than Pakistan’s cyclical political crises. Scenes of utter chaos played out on the streets of Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar and especially Lahore’s Zaman Park neighbourhood—home to Imran Khan, former prime minister, charismatic ex-
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Setback For Start-ups
The collapse of the California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 came as a shock to the financial world. SVB was not just the 16th largest bank in the US, its fall also resuscitated the spectre of the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse triggered
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Saffron Seeks New Pastures
The BJP’s impressive showing in the recent assembly elections in the Northeast—and the show of support by the Christian majority there—has raised the hopes of the party’s Kerala unit. The state is an outlier, resisting the wiles of the saffron party,
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How Svb Collapsed…
↘ Founded in 1983, SVB benefited from low interest rates in the US following the 2008 financial crisis ↘ Just before its collapse, SVB held assets worth $209 billion (Rs 17 lakh crore) and deposits of $175 billion (Rs 14.3 lakh crore) ↘ The start-up
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Uddhav’s Mega Minority Rapport
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Around two decades after he first launched a short-lived project to expand the Shiv Sena’s base, Uddhav Thackeray has revived his attempts to forge a wider rainbow coalition and take his faction of the par
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The Tamil Nadu Coast
The state of Tami Nadu has one of the most beautiful and extensive coastlines in India. The coast is rich in white sandy beaches as well as a unique history and tales of heritage. The numerous pristine beaches and lagoons lining the coast have rapidl
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Scrutineer Comes Under Scrutiny
The resignation of its executive committee (EC) chairperson and a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has brought the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) back under the scanner for alleged irregularities. Set u
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Bjp’s Muslim Push
While the Opposition accuses the Yogi Adityanath regime in Uttar Pradesh of letting his bulldozer run amok among members of the minority community and his ceaseless actions against mafia-turned-politicians Mukhtar Ansari, Atiq Ahmed and former minist
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Desert Storm
It’s open season in Rajasthan. With assembly polls due in December, the political mercury in the state has shot up with allegations and counter-allegations flying thick and fast between two of the state’s top leaders. Early this month, Gajendra Singh
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India’s New Sp orting Arena
For a little over a week, ace rifle and pistol shooters from across the globe along with the sport’s top administrators will congregate in Bhopal for the ISSF World Cup that kicks off on March 20. The prestigious International Shooting Sport Federati
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Mission Millet Mantra For Health And Prosperity
During the separate state movement in Uttarakhand the slogan of “Mandua Jhangora Khayenge… Uttarakhand Rajya Banayenge” was very popular. The slogan itself prooves that millets particularly Mandua and Jhangora have very special status in the life of
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Most Stringent ‘Anti Copying Law’ In Country
After passing the country’s most stringent anti copying law in Uttarakhand, the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami reiterated that his government will do everything for free and fair examinations in state. These words clearly express, how government
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An Embattled Imran
Imran Khan is charged with taking gifts from the Toshakhana—which stores gifts received by public officials—at high discounts and selling them off for hefty profits that he did never declared in tax returns. Cornered by a case filed against him by th
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Pakist an’s fast E mptying coffer s
We have never defaulted in the past and we won’t default now,” asserted Pakistan’s federal minister for finance Ishaq Dar on March 3, looking irritated at the persistent questions journalists were lobbing at him at a press conference. His irritation
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A Country In Chaos
The moment the Islamabad High Court restored Imran Khan’s arrest warrants on March 13—they had been suspended earlier on his appeal—the Islamabad police hopped onto a helicopter to Lahore to go and arrest him. But they couldn’t. The former prime mini
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Indo-us Arms Embrace
As Russia, traditionally India’s largest arms supplier, fights a protracted war in Ukraine that has just passed the one-year mark, there have been reports in the western media about its difficulties in supplying its military with the necessary hardwa
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The Lingayat Factor
THREE DAYS BEFORE he turned 80 on February 27, B.S. Yediyurappa bid adieu to the Karnataka legislative assembly, thereby drawing the curtains on a 40-year career as a legislator. It was an emotional moment for the man who was once the BJP’s lone MLA
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The Big Kcr Pushback
Turning adversity into advantage has long been second nature to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo and Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) since the time he revived the dormant agitation for a separate state in 2000. Now, amid appre
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The Nation telangana victim Or Villain?
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleges that KCR’s daughter K. Kavitha and two others funneled money via hawala channels to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi to seal the South Group deal and get benefits from the state’s new liquor policy. It also
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Mamata’s Lady Warriors
The West Bengal chief minister has always worked for the cause of women and relied on them in politics. Now, two of the most accomplished women in her cabinet, Chandrima Bhattacharya and Shashi Panja, are given charge of the crucial finance and indus
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E-rickshaw Revol ution
Over a decade ago, New Delhi welcomed battery-operated e-rickshaws ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an eco-friendly alternative for mobility in a city battling air pollution. Since then, these low-speed three-wheelers, which ferry passengers o
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With The World At His Feet
Music is his life force, his whole being. It offers him a language that words don’t. And so, when M.M. Keeravani, 61, took the stage on the evening of March 12 to accept the ‘Best Original Song’ Oscar with lyricist Kanukuntla Chandrabose for ‘NaatuNa
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The Foundation Of Good Cheer
ROBIN RAINA FOUNDATION FOUNDED: 2003 Charity organisation In 2003, Robin Raina was standing on the top floor of his office in Noida when he found he had tears in his eyes. All around the swanky office building of the $2.5 billion software and e-comme
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Such A Long Journey
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), one of the great innovators of 20th-century abstract art, kept refining his style up until his last active years. Decade by decade, you can see the evolution from his early, figurative paintings to increas
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An Odyssey With Issey
If design delights you, 47-A in Mumbai’s iconic Khotachiwadi is probably already on your radar. The space was founded by designer-curator Srila Chatterjee’s Baro Market and C&L Design from the art gallery Chatterjee & Lal, and has had some very inter
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Dial N For Nature
In detective or adventure stories from the Victorian era, there is usually a clearcut demarcation of narrative function from page one—there is the relatively strait-laced, conventional narrator, and then there is the ‘explorer’, a maverick of science
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The Stars in Our Eyes
Every Indian is defined by the films they grew up with. The larger-than-life tales, elaborate sets, stunning costumes and mesmerising song and dance routines are an intrinsic part of ‘desi culture’. Given the growing popularity in global circles, it
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United We Dance
Norwegian hip-hop dance group Quick Style had choreographed for popular Korean band BTS and featured on US TV show World of Dance, but it was a 12-minute spirited jig to a Bollywood-Punjabi medley at a fellow member’s wedding last year that propelled
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Back In The Game
Q. How does it feel to be back as a cricket presenter? It feels like home. I gave 15 years to cricket and, after a break, I’ve come back on a show that is a bit different, as it marries our love for reality shows with our craze for cricket. I am so h
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A Way Out OF OUR Fragmented LANDSCAPE
A REVIEW OF THREE RECENT BOOKS ON the Himalaya earlier this month opened with the provocation: ‘Whose Himalaya is it?’ Surveying writing on the Himalaya from the earliest colonial encounters to the present day, Amish Raj Mulmi (Himal Southasian, Marc

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