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A Tamil IPS officer is transforming sports in Bihar. From shame to pride

During the 2002 National Games opening ceremony, Bihar’s athletes marched without sports shoes or uniforms.

Jonty Bhati has put Greater Noida on wrestling map. Haryana has competition

Greater Noida: A 250 gm container filled with homemade ghee, four kg milk and a kg of curd have traveled nearly 50 km on...

Inside Lodhas brothers’ Rs 5,000 cr name war. ‘Everything is in those 5 letters’

The Lodha family built a Rs 1.36 lakh crore empire. Now the two sons are in a tussle over the use of the name, with a trademark suit and forgery allegations in the mix.

Indian weddings get a new destination in tier-2 cities—Rishikesh, Khajuraho, Corbett

There’s now a budget-friendly answer to dreamy destination weddings in Goa or Udaipur, offering riverside mandaps, mountain vows, forest pheras.

Tamil Nadu is changing. Is anti-Hindi sentiment still the same?

Tamil Nadu politicians don’t oppose organic adoption of Hindi. There aren’t any mass street protests but the resistance has mostly shifted to viral memes, social media posts, stand-up comedy and Reels.

God’s own country is high on MDMA. Kerala school, college students flood rehabs

Police, politicians and priests have amped up their efforts in recent months. From Operation D-Hunt to Operation Clean Slate, the state has intensified drug raids, crackdowns and seizures.

How big stars and bloated blockbusters are bleeding Bollywood dry

A Bollywood obit may be premature, but the writing on the billboards is crystal clear. Industry insiders say 2025 is the year to watch for a reinvention.

Nelong villagers were forced out in ’62. Modi govt breathing life into ghost villages near LAC

Modi government is trying to overturn that long painful memory of lost homeland, the trauma suffered by Nelong villagers after 1962.

Five gunshots in NCR that killed the big fat Indian wedding in one month

Blood, chaos, silence. And the baraatis kept dancing.

Marathons are no longer reserved for elite. Small-town, middle-class India wants in

Clubs such as Bhag, catered toward the chronically online Gen Z crowd, are leveraging social media trends and the promise of social connections to gain runners.

On Camera

In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

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.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.