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Sleepless in western UP. Everybody is panicking about drones

Drones are the new Kala Bandar in western UP villages. They are thieves, spies, kidnappers. CM Yogi Adityanath has now threatened Gangster Act against ‘drone chors’.

What top Awami League leaders are doing in Kolkata—Pilates, hair transplant, online meetings

The Awami League leaders who are in India have mostly settled in Kolkata’s New Town. Broad roads and affordable rent make it the ideal residential hub for them.

What sets Premanand Maharaj apart—‘doesn’t sell miracles’, a celebrity favourite

Premanand Maharaj’s popularity stems not just from his soft-spoken sermons, but also from his positioning as a ‘progressive baba’ — one who supports love and inter-caste marriages, and gives logical, non-ritualistic advice.

A handwritten note, 2 signatures, only dead ends in Kashmir—Sarla Bhat murder is no easy case

When the case was reopened, her father went through every file, every yellowed newspaper clipping, every document he had gathered over the years. That night, he didn't sleep.

A DDA flat baithak brings intimacy back to Indian classical music. Beyond scale, spectacle

Upstairs looks like any other home in a quiet neighbourhood. But on a concert night, it transforms into something else.

Indian cities are a mess of overhead wires. Delhi will pay Rs 8 cr to clear just 5 km

Historian Sohail Hashmi called the wires a colonial curse. While Europeans had started undergrounding wires fairly early, the same focus was not reserved for the colonies.

Tiruppur orders on hold, pressure to sell cheap, Diwali fears—Trump tariff & Tamil Nadu hub

Senior knitwear workers recalled past slumps, including the 2008 financial crisis, GST rollout, and Covid-19. ‘Each time, the industry adapted until the scenario returned to normal.’

Profit in NY, loss in UP—what Jane Street ‘market manipulation’ did to Tier 2 & 3 India

As Jane Street made big money through alleged market manipulation, the wealth of small-town F&O traders was vacuumed, from Lucknow to Rewa to Jalgaon.

Dalits are doing the work doctors reject—‘No postmortem without a safai karmachari’

Thousands of Dalit sanitation workers across India are forced to perform autopsies in place of doctors. ‘This practice is even worse than manual scavenging.’

Delhi-NCR restaurants are caught in a cut-copy-paste mode, and a monopoly of consultants

“I’ve had clients who were more concerned with their Instagram grid than with flavour or guest experience,” said consultant chef Suvir Saran, who is among those defying the cookie-cutter colour palettes.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.