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After a gap of almost four years, a major Maoist attack took place in Dantewada in South Chhattisgarh, where left-wing extremists triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) on April 26, killing 10 security personnel and their civilian driver. Whi

On April 24, when Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar came to meet Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow as part of his efforts to push for Opposition unity, he did not meet Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati. Since meeting o

Amillennium-old connec tion was revived rec ently when Saurashtra Tamils visited the old homeland they had migrated from centuries ago, and took in its wonders. Kicked off in mid-April by defence minister Rajnath Singh in the temple town of Somnath,

In what is seen as a battle of wits with nephew Ajit Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar dropped a bombshell on May 2, saying he intends to quit as party president. The announcement, at the launch of an updated edition of his b

On March 16, shortly after 13-year-old Tushar, a Class 6 student, went missing from his house in Patna’s Kanhauli village, his father, Raj Kishore Pandit, received a ransom call on WhatsApp. The kidnapper wanted Pandit, a government schoolteacher, to

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made another whirlwind trip to Kerala in the last week of April where he flagged off two pathbreaking projects, the state’s first Vande Bharat semi-high speed express train and the inland Water Metro. The latter is an int

The untimely rains in the national capital have failed to douse the anger of the country’s top wrestlers who have been staging a most dramatic protest at Jantar Mantar since April 23. In many ways, it’s the fight of their lives. Even as the Delhi Pol

New Delhi is doing a fine job of walking the diplomatic tightrope on the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war. Even in the face of a sanctions threat from the US, it continues to do business as usual with Russia—indeed, rather more than usual, if you add burge

The Narendra Modi government had initiated the Make in India programme as early as 2014, its very first year, with the idea of turning the country into a leading global manufacturing and investment destination. But that wasn’t going to be easy. China

The pressure from the Hindu priest lobby is clearly showing up on the BJP’s governments in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. While Pushkar Singh Dhami’s regime was pushed to remove the cap on the number of vehicles and pilgrims in the Char Dham Yatra,

● Lakshadweep and Budgam district in J&K declared TB-free in 2021 ● Nine districts from various states achieve 60 per cent reduction in cases between 2015 and 2021 ● 75,000 people and organisations under Ni-kshay Mitra have adopted 1 mn patients, hel

The aggressive advance of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on vital portions of the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC) in recent years had sharpened fears around an old truth. Beijing had always been known to show a beaver-like dili

In an era where sustainability and energy efficiency are of paramount importance, the air conditioning industry has been working diligently to develop innovative technologies that address environmental concerns. In the first half of this article, we

THE GOAL SOUNDS FAR-FETCHED, even a pipe dream one could say, but Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao would have you believe that it’s within his sights. “In the coming 2024 parliamentary polls, the next government is ours, ours

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot seemed to have taken a leaf out of Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath’s book in his address at the Rajasthan Police Foundation Day event in Jaipur on April 16. “Our police will not be cowed down,” he declared. “Gang

EVERY EVENING, AT SEVEN SHARP, A SIREN ATOP THE BHAIRAVNATH TEMPLE IN Mohityanche Vadgaon, a village in Maharashtra’s Sangli district around 350 km from state capital Mumbai, blares for a full 45 seconds. The sound of sirens is nothing unusual here i

THE THRIVING POPULATION OF ASIATIC LIONS IN GIR HAS BEEN A WILDLIFE SUCCESS STORY for several years now. Ironically, this very triumph of conservation has now become somewhat of a liability. The number of Asiatic lions has steadily risen over the pas

1957: Three lions from a zoo transloc ated to Chandra prabha san ctuary near Varanasi in UP. After steady increase, they slowly die out October 1979: The Gujarat government writes to the Centre to find alternative habitats for the Asiatic lion 1995:

He’s one of the top electronic dance music artists in the world, but for many Indian hip-hop fans, he’s the man behind one of the most anticipated albums of 2023. Indian-American DJ-producer KSHMR (pronounced Kashmir), a.k.a. Niles Hollowell-Dhar, ha

Indian-American rapper and singer Raja Kumari’s new album, The Bridge, heralds the next stage of her sonic evolution. Compared to her previous work, there’s a more introspective aspect to the lyrics, while musically, it’s more pop and R&B-flavoured t

“Short story lends itself to cinema. It’s difficult to adapt the novel into film and this is true the world over,” says B. Jeyamohan, the celebrated Tamil author, literary critic and screenplay writer who stands on the cusp of wider fame today with s

In 1842, Meheribai, a widow, enrolled her daughter in Mrs Ward’s Seminary in Bombay. The decision—coming as it did when “there was a general desire to keep the fair sex in ignorance”—invited fear and loathing. Parsi newspapers carried disapproving ar

IT seemed that in the Ghost Lane of Old Dhaka, rumour and reality mirrored each other more often than they should. In fact, it’s this mixture that’s the tour de force of Shahidul Zahir’s book I See The Face, and which fuels the characters across gend

Q.What can we look forward to in season 3 of Indian Matchmaking? In the new season, you will see success stories, my family time, travels with my husband, and a new country. I’m also busier than ever with matchmaking and have had to expand my office