As a hobby, chess is inexpensive. But playing it professionally is an investment that can run into lakhs of rupees. Coaches, tournament fees, travel and stay all add up.
BJP has set up a team of four MPs, while Bhim Army, BSP, RLP, and AIMIM have sent representatives to Birdiya in Rajasthan’s Didwana district to sit with villagers staging a hunger strike against the brutal murder of two Dalit men by Jats.
“Atiq Ahmed was killed, his properties bulldozed. How is it possible that Atiq’s conduct was bad and Amarmani’s conduct is good? What is this double mentality of the Yogi government?” Nidhi Shukla asks.
Marriage, divorce, inheritance, and temple rights are all skewed in favour of men. Four Parsi women see UCC as an equaliser but Bombay Parsi Punchayet wants 'total exemption'.
Rakhi Singh, lead petitioner in a case demanding daily worshipping rights for Hindus at Gyanvapi, has been accused of being an outlier and a dummy by her co-petitioners.
'Brahmin lion of Purvanchal is coming back'—Tears, triumph, and toasts marked the Adityanath govt’s order to release the four-time MLA and his wife serving life sentence in the 2003 Madhumita Shukla murder case.
The business had already been keeling under the violent clashes between the junta troops and local forces after the 2021 coup in Myanmar. The Kuki-Meitei clash worsened it.
Wristbands, hair ribbons, wall posters, electric poles, street hoardings, flags, marriage announcements, films, songs — every symbol in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district is stained with caste and billhook is the main weapon.
From BJP's Sanjeev Balyan to farm leader Naresh Tikait to Congress and SP leaders, everyone's descended in UP's Khubbapur village looking to quell the tension and absolve Hindu teacher Tripta Tyagi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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