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To make India self-reliant by promoting local manufacturing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea of Atmanirbhar Bharat seems to be bearing fruit in Uttarakhand. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, too, has reiterated upon creating local employment opportunities.

The hiring scam unearthed at India’s top IT employer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has delivered a jolt not only to the parent Tata Group but also to the sector at large, and is likely to make tech firms take a hard look at their hiring processes

It has taken almost a decade for the Congress to recover from the mystifying coma it went into ever since Telangana was born. Although its ground presence was so entrenched and pervasive that it had never really vanished, a strange defeatism seemed t

First came the step into the grey zone, then the hurried back-tracking. On June 29 evening, Tamil Nadu governor R.N. Ravi dismissed the corruption-tainted V. Senthil Balaji—presently under judicial custody—from the state council of ministers. But, la

As expected, an orgiastic bout of violence gripped rural West Bengal over the filing of nominations for the three-tier panchayat polls. The nomination process for around 74,000 seats began on June 9, the last date of filing papers was June 15—six day

On June 28, Chandrashekhar Azad, the Bhim Army chief and national president of the Azad Samaj Party (ASP), was visiting Deoband in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district when four assailants in a car opened fire on his sports utility vehicle. Providence

The topography of the arid peninsula of Saurashtra has metamorphosed into lush green in the past two decades. Thanks to good monsoons resulting in healthy agriculture and forest cover. However, little did Kathiawar expect that this boon would eventua

On May 30, Bhojpuri singer Nisha Updhyaya was in the middle of her performance at a social gathering in Bihar’s Bhojpur district, when a gunshot fired by an exuberant reveller pierced her left leg. The singer collapsed on the stage. A week in the hos

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, it seems, is modelling himself on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at least in posing for photographs. The PM often releases his solo pictures after inaugurating a big infrastructure project. In the past month,

On June 23, when Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel attended the joint opposition meeting at Nitish Kumar’s residence along with Sharad Pawar and Supriya Sule, he tweeted his photographs with RJD leader Lalu Prasad’s family and asserted t

Telangana’s Swachh supremacy took a beating as a recent newsreport highlighted how the residents of Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, mostly domestic helps and daily wagers, have to use a nearby hillock to ease themselves. Located right next to the seat of the Te

AS political manoeuvres go, this was a masterstroke. Just a year after it broke the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and formed one of its own with Eknath Shinde’s band of 39 Shiv Sena MLAs, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has struck again,

↘ The NCP dissidents not only shore up numbers for the ruling alliance, but also put Shinde and his men on the defensive, showing them they are not indispensable ↘ The NCP break-up may weaken the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), and also the efforts t

» GOING FOR: Bachelor’s of Science in Bioengineering, Stanford University, US “Being interested in a range of subjects, I want the freedom to explore my interests in depth, something Stanford offers through its experiential and hands-on pedagogy. My

Devanshi Sood is all of 18 and all set to fly out to the US next month to pursue the course of her dreams. Sood studied PCME (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics) at Heritage Xperiential School, Gurugram, and has opted for a four-year bache

» GOING FOR: Bachelor’s in Economics, London School of Economics, UK “I feel that studying in the UK will give me several growth opportunities and expose me to new skills. It will also help me prepare better for a master’s later as well as my long-te

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It’s poll season in Chhattisgarh and Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is out to win friends and influence people. So when the Congress central leadership elevated his bête noire, health minister T.S. Singh Deo, as the deputy chief minister, Baghel welco

Q. What are the key initiatives of your government on which you are seeking re-election in the upcoming assembly election? Schemes that revolve around the welfare of farmers, the youth, workers (the non-landholding poor in rural areas) and women have

Everyone wants a piece of Gandhi. Even those who think he was responsible for Partition and refuse to demonise the man who took his life cannot deny the place Bapu and his principles occupy in India’s public consciousness. Hence the battle to claim t

Q You have illustrious and remarkable business career and built a global corporate giant with operations worldwide. How you feel about your journey so far? My journey has been quite eventful, with various turning points that shaped my career. Born in

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A newly launched sound-and-light show at Kolkata’s Victoria Memorial Hall uses 3D projection mapping to bring the story of Kolkata to life. Titled ‘Kolkata-The City of Joy’, the 40-minute show was inaugurated by Union home minister Amit Shah on Rabin

With its storied past and rich legacy of built heritage, Delhi has always been a haunt for heritage walks. And, as of May this year, ‘haunted’ heritage walks are on the menu too. Launched by Delhi Tourism, two such walks are currently on offer: ‘Malc

It’s a 600 million-year-old geographical feature that encircles a 1,000-year-old temple, and Rajasthan Tourism feels it’s high time to develop it as a tourist attraction. If fame has eluded the Ramgarh Crater, it’s because the site remained shrouded

This uptrend has been especially true of the domestic footfall. The figures since 2022 unambiguously demonstrate that Kerala is the first and the best choice of tourists from all parts of the country. With international air traffic getting back to no

Today, the very name Kurukashetra conjures up images of the epic war fought between the Kaurvas and the Pandvas – a war that has defuned us culturally. Many of the momentous events leading up to the war also took place at various sites in Haryana. Th

Ten thousand saw I at a glance. Not daffodils like in William Wordsworth’s poem, but beautiful blooms indigenous to India. All of 10 sq. km, 1,200 metres above sea level, the Kaas Plateau Reserved Forest in Maharashtra is a UNESCO Natural World Herit

The golden grass of summer on this mountain pass in the Western Ghats gets a lush emerald hue with the magical touch of the monsoon. Picture glorious expanses of green, a majestic manmade lake with pink flamingos feeding gracefully on its banks. Seas

On a quiet morning, while Goa sleeps, Shubhra Shankhwalk er wakes up to make the 4 am trek to a manos (sluice gate) to pick up tiny prawns, locally called manshechi sungta. Fish sourced from the manos are tastier and, thus, precious. For Shankhwalker

Innovation with wheels is Samsonite India CEO Jai Krishnan’s go-to term for the luggage brand. When the world traditionally carried horizontal suitcases, Samsonite turned its profile vertical and added wheels to pull the baggage instead of lugging th

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Shadowed by blue skies and enveloped by lush greenery, the Kumaoni village of Ramgarh is a votary of the idyllic life. I visited Ramgarh, about 30 kilometres from Bhimtal, for a well-deserved break after some dreary research work for my next book. Aw

The breathtaking vistas are often enough to merit a getaway; but add to that a dash of luxury and some unique experiences, and an unforgettable vacation is in the making. This summer, find solace in the mountains with these hill retreats that marry i

Your work takes you places. Do you set aside time to explore the sights? I do now, but when I started working, I didn’t. After 3-4 years of working, I realised I need to make the time because it’s not every day that you visit such exquisite locations