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The last wedding, a post office & Ramlila at Air India Colony—memories of Maharaja’s staff

Residents of Air India Colony in Vasant Vihar lost a two-year legal battle when the Delhi High Court ordered their eviction, saying they are no longer govt employees and therefore not entitled to govt accommodation.

Delhi Metro is done with getting too much love. Reels creators ask why so many dos and don’ts

Now, some start dancing at the station until CRPF personnel drive them away.

One story, many storytellers – ‘Andha Yug’ play on Mahabharata staged after 30 years in Delhi

Written shortly after the Partition, Andha Yug uses the Mahabharat as an allegory to reflect on the politics of violence endured by newly-independent India.

Mewat’s star lawyer is saviour of Muslims arrested in cow smuggling cases — 99% acquittals

Most cases have the same script and you know it when you read it, says the lawyer. They tell a sorry tale of dodgy FIRs, hurried chargesheets, weak investigation and prosecution.

Gujarat’s young men are migrating illegally to US, Canada. Only the dead get caught

Travel agents in Gandhinagar's Kalol have been illegally funnelling young people with near impunity for years. Until now their clients started coming back in body bags.

‘Refugees naming their daughters after me’, says Tasmida Johar, India’s 1st Rohingya woman graduate

Johar, who graduated at 25, hopes to move to Canada and pursue law through a UNHCR-Duolingo collaborative programme for scholarships to disadvantaged students.

Reprogramme your brain to feel good on Mondays. Here’s how

You can’t always change your schedule or obligations to make Mondays more appealing. But the human brain loves routine, so here’s what you can do.

Indian rugby isn’t elite or male. Sweety, Beauty, Sapna from rural Bihar rule the field

The rugby championship wins have been a decade in the making — a lone ranger coach’s search for talent, convincing conservative parents, explaining rugby to cricket-crazy Indians.

Rajasthan’s Indira Rasoi is a success story — 9 crore thalis since 2020

CM Ashok Gehlot’s welfare scheme of 8 Rupee meals have become a lifeline not just for the poor and homeless, but also gig workers, class 4 govt employees and local beat policemen.

E-tender is CM Khattar’s new mantra. Haryana sarpanches call it attack on ‘village culture’

'An engineer will tell us how to do our jobs?' says SAH president. Another protester called the govt a thief for eyeing the Rs 1,100 crore Khattar promised for PRIs.

On Camera

As a Pasmanda Muslim woman, it pains me that India took 70 years to question talaq-e-hasan

Talaq-e-hasan is often described as the “preferable” method because it stretches the process for three months, but it is not fair. It remains a one-sided, extrajudicial mechanism in India.

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.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

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.