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2022 was the year world turned against strongman politics. Bharat Jodo is India’s chance

From Brazil to the US to UK, this was the year mass democracies shifted the playbook of politics. India could be next in line to do that.

No injuries or blood found on body of Russian tycoon who died mysteriously in Odisha hotel

'No viscera sample was preserved' for Antov who was found dead at hotel in Rayagada on 24 Dec, 2 days after death of friend Bidenov. State Crime Branch is investigating the deaths.

Wars to Green Revolution to Emergency, National Archives are full of gaping holes

Many ministries have lagged for decades in sending records to National Archives of India, according to its director-general Chandan Sinha. The losers are scholars and public alike.

100 yrs of Soviet Union: Nehru-Indira era over, but idea of USSR still rules Indian mind

Soviet babies were named Indira, Sita and Gita, Indian children were called Stalin, Stalinjeet, Natasha. The USSR was a blueprint for Indian nation-building.

Why 5G phones are still priced too high for most Indians — ‘Democratisation yet to happen’

Unaffordable 5G phones are a product of macroeconomic conditions and poor marketing choices by phone makers, and the main losers are the economically weaker sections, say analysts.

Belagavi knows how to juggle two identities – Bahubali statue, savji, tamasha

The hybrid culture of Karnataka’s Belagavi and its border villages dates back to over a millennium.

‘Love-jihad’ has a new territory. With Jharkhand murder, it has entered the tribal belt

Rebika Pahadin, a tribal Christian from Jharkhand, was allegedly strangled and chopped into 18 pieces by her Muslim partner's family.

India’s civil-military fusion order of the day but not at the cost of military identity

The Modi government’s urge to seek unquestioned obedience from India’s military has been most evident in the recent selections of senior military leadership.

Murdered & stuffed into box bed at own home — Snehal Gavare case still unsolved 15 yrs on

Both of Snehal's hands were tied behind her back and she had a white cloth around her mouth. According to post-mortem report, the 21-year-old died of asphyxia caused by smothering.

Who is challenging Ayurveda in today’s India? Meet Kerala doctor, Cyriac Abby Philips

The Liver Doc Abby Philips is now the go-to person for Ayush-related liver injury in Kerala and on social media. And he has taken on the formidable Ayurveda-Homeopathy industrial complex.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.