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Gopal Kanda’s 2nd innings in Haryana is just taking off. He’s cosying up to Amit Shah, Khattar

Sirsa is celebrating the acquittal of MLA Gopal Goyal Kanda in connection with the 2012 suicide of air-hostess Geetika Sharma. And there are whispers of Kanda throwing his lot with the BJP.

Dhaka’s elite Muslims party & pose as Barbie, Krishna. Double life in conservative Bangladesh

Dhaka streets have easy markers of religious identity that seem to snub out any attempt at cosmopolitanism. But the 'swinging set' is unaffected whether Sheikh Hasina returns to power.

Jharkhand’s tribes have a message for Modi’s UCC. ‘Birth to death, everything different among us’

The effort to unite India, bring equity for women, and do away with outdated religious practices, is now also exposing real faultlines in the uniformity politics that’s underway.

Parambrata Chatterjee is a ‘man written by a woman’. He is Bengali cinema’s Irrfan Khan

Parambrata avoids the commercial, and often toxic male hero. OTT offers him a chance to explore the other side of masculinity like Dr Sudip from Bulbul & Satyaki in Kahaani.

No written order but UP Police has shut Muslim restaurants in Sambhal for Kanwar Yatra

'This is Sambhal. Things may turn [for the worse] any moment here,' is the UP Police's argument. But Muslim shop owners say the police isn't allowing them to open their restaurants and sell just vegetarian dishes either.

Menial chores to sexual harassment—PhD scholars trapped in toxic relationship with guides

Her guide sent her 'lewd' videos, a co-author was added to her thesis and IISER-Pune's PoSH committee dismissed her allegations, saying he crossed ethical, not sexual boundaries.

Manipur video sets Alwar gang rape victim back by 4 years. She wants right to be forgotten

As the gang rape video of Manipur's Kuki women surfaced online, the Alwar constable's gang rape video from 2019 was picked up, re-circulated, and made viral too. Her phone hasn't stopped pinging since then.

Trials, threats, trauma—one man’s 10-yr battle against POCSO-convicted godman Asaram Bapu

Asaram's trial has been a virtual ‘who’s who’ in the legal industry, with costliest lawyers such as Ram Jethmalani, Salman Khurshid & UU Lalit coming to the guru’s defence.

After 350 films & 4 decades of acting, Prosenjit still reinvents himself with every new film

Prosenjit is to the Bengali entertainment industry what Rahul Dravid was to Indian cricket at the height of his career.

Selling land, borrowing money, eating less: What UPSC coaching does to poor families

For many families with UPSC aspirants, it takes a village to fulfil the near impossible dream. Loans have to be taken and money must be saved to feed the great Indian coaching factories.

On Camera

Asim Munir could be Pakistan PM, PCB chair, Chief Justice. But these are for lesser mortals

In your arms, Asim Munir, under your five stars, Pakistan will progress from being a poor dumper truck to a shining dumper truck with an engine of a Mercedes.

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.

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.