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ASI says Ladakh’s centuries-old monasteries are under threat

In lecture at the IIC Sunder Paul, Director of Conservation at ASI focused on conservation methods that combine traditional knowledge with modern interventions to safeguard Ladakh’s cultural legacy.

What is common among successful women? They laugh at patriarchy

After spending over 30 years in finance, Shinjini Kumar has now written a book — Busy Women, Building Commerce and Culture in Middle India — about women entrepreneurs from India’s Tier-II cities.

SY Quraishi recalls the day Manmohan Singh said, ‘I will commit suicide’

The launch of former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi's book, India and I, was more of a storytelling event. There was not a dry eye in the packed hall in IIC, Delhi.

When Asha Bhosle’s driver got worried about her health. She was practising an RD Burman song

At Delhi’s India International Centre, cinema studies scholar Shikha Jhingan regaled the room with stories of Asha Bhosle.

A new book is taking on Milton Friedman’s theory. Businesses needn’t be all about profits

The Business of Business Is (Not) Just Business, a collection of essays, was launched on July 22 in Delhi. It followed a discussion on if businesses should think beyond making money.

IIT Madras professor who shaped Startup India says country now needs 20 million entrepreneurs

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal joined the launch of Sonali Malhotra's Roots and Wings, a biography of IIT Madras professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, at the India Habitat Centre.

OP Jain’s collection has a new home. Lota, shawl, hookah now at Humayun’s Tomb Museum

From baby walkers to ornate opium pipes, Delhiites can explore centuries of everyday Indian life starting 1 August.

Indian para sport is on the rise. At Commonwealth send-off, a vision ‘beyond ‘competitions’

India’s 28-member para contingent for 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow got a send-off at Delhi’s Leela Palace on Monday.

India’s democracy is now at greatest strain since Independence, says Ashutosh Varshney

At a talk in Delhi, political scientist Ashutosh Varshney argued that India is now on a journey from electoral vibrancy to electoral erosion, in part due to SIR.

Lights, camera, cancer. Survivors are turning their pain into comedy

Organised by an unlikely group of former cancer patients, Comedy in Chaos was a near-perfect mix of dark humour and real talk.

On Camera

Gen Z vote can impact India’s electoral future. Just look at Tamil Nadu

What we are seeing now is not only a new generation of voters asserting its presence, but a change in the very architecture of persuasion itself.

Life insurance policy surrender, withdrawal payouts jump to Rs 2.8 lakh-crore, exceed maturity benefits

Govt says surrender & withdrawal payouts accounted for 39% of total benefits in 25-26, up from 32% in 21-22, driven by affordability issues, mis-selling, changing financial circumstance.

‘When Pakistan sought ceasefire, we keep it waiting’—Gen Anil Chauhan reveals India’s Op Sindoor flex

Pakistan reached out to India around 9.30 am on 10 May 2025 but Indian DGMO spoke only in the afternoon, just retired Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan says at ThePrint's Off The Cuff.

Modi govt response to Gen Z protest shows a rare vulnerability. It’s an opportunity for Opposition

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.