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Just over a month ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the pitch for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) with a rhetorical question: “Imagine there is one law for a member of a family and a different law for another member living in the same house, can su

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It seems Randeep Singh Surjewalais one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Congress’s victory in the Karnataka assembly polls. The stature of the general secretary in-charge of the state has moved northwards after he was named one of the architects o

Even as dismissed Rajasthan minister Rajendra Gudha’s ‘red diary’ is creating ripples in the state, BJP PWD minister in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, Gopal Bhargava, is set to release the fourth updated edition of his ‘Sankatmochan Diary’. But fear no

↘ 1991: The first petition, demanding the ‘right to worship’ for devotees at Gyanvapi mosque, filed by ‘Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar’ in a Varanasi court ↘ AUG. ’21: The Gyanvapi case is revived after five women Hindu devotees file a pet

The way to a man’s heart may often be through his stomach, but not in Bihar. As state governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar threw a dinner for all Bihar parliamentarians at a Delhi hotel on July 27, JD(U) and RJD MPs gave it a miss. JD(U) insiders say

Back in 2021, actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan had lost his Coimbatore South assembly seat by a mere 1 per cent margin. For the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, he is leaving nothing to chance. A door-to-door campaign—Makkoludu Maiam—is alread

↘ Declare 45 days during the Tamil months of Karthigai and Margazhi as dry days ↘ Reduce operating hours of TASMAC outlets, making it from 2 pm to 7 pm ↘ Ensure availability of ‘light liquor’ such as 46 listed brands of beer ↘ Provide a customer iden

Jun. 1995: Bhopal Development Plan 1995-2005 with a population projection of 2.5 million comes into force 2008: The state government begins finalising a new plan. The draft ‘Bhopal Development Plan 2021’ is released, but annulled at the stage of hear

Conjure for a moment the stern photographic image of Quaid-e-Azam dissolving into a liberal constitutionalist Congressman, co-author of a Hindu-Muslim alliance, falling in love with a Parsi heiress. Ruttie reciprocates Jinnah’s love by forsaking her

B.A. (Hons. /Research) English; Arabic; Chinese; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Persian; Russian; Spanish; Journalism and Mass Communication; Performance Arts and Humanities; Digital Communication. M.A. English (Cafeteria); English Litera

The EFL University, under the leadership of Prof. E. Suresh Kumar, Vice Chancellor, was entrusted with the responsibility of preparing a Concept Paper for the effective implementation of the NEP 2020 in 11 States and one Union Territory, appraising t

PINKY ANAND: It is a long-overdue move in the right direction—a uniform civil code is critical to balance the preservation of religious and cultural diversity with a consistent legal framework that safeguards everyone’s fundamental rights. The UCC wi

↘ The FCA to cover land declared as a forest under the Indian Forest Act, 1927, or noted in government records as forest on or after Oct. 25, 1980 ↘ Will not apply to land changed from ‘forest use’ to ‘use for non-forest purpose’ on or before the SC

India’s forest cover increased by a mere 0.6 percentage points between 2011 and 2021. The amendments to the FCA are likely to take 28 per cent of the cover out of the Act’s ambit SOURCE: India State of the Forest Reports 1987-2021 ■

The pace of diverting forests to ‘non-forest purposes’ slowed down in wake of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 SOURCE: MoEFCC ■

↘ Was instrumental in the RJD-JD(U) patch-up; has kept his partymen in check, letting Nitish run the one-year-old Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar unencumbered ↘ Has a key role to play in Opposition unity at the national level; can reach out to le

ANTI-INCUMBENCY: KCR is seeking a third consecutive term since first coming to power in the newly-created state of Telangana in 2014 ↘ OPPOSITION CHALLENGE: A resurgent Congress after the Karnataka win, and an aggressive BJP trying to expand footprin

Total seats: 17 Total seats: 119

↘ KCR believes that by consolidating his party’s position in other states, he will have better leverage at the national level ↘ Gaining a head start, the BRS has enlisted four former MPs and nine ex-MLAs in neighbouring Maharashtra ↘ KCR plans to fie

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The vision of NEP 2020 is to provide holistic, multi-disciplinary, high-quality education to every learner and transform India into a global knowledge superpower. The Policy advocates innovativeness and dynamism in the education sector so that learne

Shri Ram Murti Smarak (SRMS) Trust was founded by Shri Dev Murti in the year 1990, in memory of his father Late Shri Ram Murti Ji, a veteran Freedom Fighter, true Gandhian, Ex-Minister UP (18 years) & Ex-Parliamentarian, who dedicated his life for th

The subject of Terada Yoshitaka’s enquiry is the celebrity musician and nadaswaram player, T.N. Rajarattinam Pillai (1898-1956), made up with multiple narrative representations of him as a charismatic musician, as a dilettante, as a rebel who bridged

LAST YEAR, AFTER GEETANJALI SHREE’S Hindi novel Ret Samadhi/Tomb of Sand (translated into English by Daisy Rockwell) won the International Booker Prize, my inbox was abuzz with messages from American acquaintances and some fellow writers. Who’s this

This engaging mini-biography of the pioneering Indian ornithologist is written by his grand-niece. While recounting Ali’s adventures, Whitaker loses no opportunity in introducing children to a spot of natural history. For example, an account of field

While volunteering on a conservation project in Arunachal Pradesh, I chanced upon a curious bushy-tailed creature that resembled a squirrel but for its pointy snout. An inquiring text to a wildlife expert produced the necessary identification: Tupaia

Zai Whitaker is truly a gem among contemporary Indian writers—her vast knowledge of animals and the natural world, her compassion for her characters, her gentle wit and ability to create an intimacy with our living environment are extraordinary. Ever

Pernicious and ruinous though its effects may have been, colonial rule, thanks to rail connectivity, unwittingly enabled people from remote corners of the Indian subcontinent to venture forth, often braving untold hardships, to seek a new life in str

The Bihar Museum Biennale is set to begin its second edition on August 7, which also happens to be the Museum’s Foundation Day. This will be the first in-person edition after the pandemic forced a wholly virtual first edition in 2021. Organised by th