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Northeast Hoolock gibbons are facing extinction. The lesser apes are being counted now

The number of the western hoolock gibbons — the only non-human ape species in India — has fallen drastically from around 100,000 to just about 5,000.

What did forensic lab reports say in high-profile beef lynching cases of the past decade?

ThePrint looked into several cases of cow vigilante mob lynchings. In how many cases were victims carrying beef?

A casket, poster & 3 photos—what’s left after the Meitei man’s funeral in Manipur

Mayanglambam Rishikanta Singh, 31, was killed on 21 January, a month after he began living with his Kuki partner.

The Solan mushroom ‘bank’ helping farmers grow empires, UP to Odisha

Farmers and entrepreneurs from across India flock to the ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research for training. One Maharashtra trainee went from Rs 10,000 a month to a Rs 75 crore turnover.

A dangerous love in Manipur. ‘Arrest the Kuki woman’ is the new protest slogan

In Kaching, dozens of women sit beneath a tree, wearing white shawls with posters that read: ‘Punish Kuki terrorists’, ‘we condemn killing of Rishikanta’.

Inside Emraan Hashmi fanclubs. They’re done whispering & living in shadows

Loving Emraan Hashmi is no longer a guilty pleasure. A legion of closet fans, including women, are now proudly proclaiming their status as ‘Emranians’.

A Ranchi boy reading at a petrol pump went viral. What came next

Alex Munda, 7, became an internet sensation in Jharkhand after a video of him studying under petrol pump lights went viral. Electricity and other benefits are now arriving, but so are new problems.

Khelo India under-performing—missing athletes, limited scholarship, poor Centre-state synergy

The management is getting worse. We have seen the worst quality of equipment being used, said a head coach who travelled from Delhi to Jaipur for Khelo India.

‘Borewell boy’ Prince is now a 23-yr-old plumber. ‘Same urgency could have saved Noida techie’

in 2006, Prince Kashyap from Haryana's Kurukshetra was pulled out alive from a borewell after 50 hours of national attention. Noida techie Yuvraj Mehta died in Noida last week without the same urgency.

Gurugram is waging a new class war. Now fight is over gig workers’ parking lots & toilets

In Gurugram’s Hayatpur, an SUV owner tried running over a delivery executive after a dispute over delivery bikes’ parking space. A Swiggy dark store is located in this neighbourhood.

On Camera

India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.