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WPL changing cricket crowd culture. Kids in stands scream Jemimah, men now say ‘batswoman’

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Mumbai, Navi Mumbai: The father-daughter duo settled into their seats in the West Stand at Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium on a sultry Sunday evening to...
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Dancing Shiva in Samarkand: Central Asian traders spread Hinduism, Buddhism along Silk Road

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800 years before Babur, Hindu gods were worshipped by merchant diasporas in Central Asia.
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State govts are getting into UPSC coaching game—not for business but as a strategy

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From Gujarat to West Bengal and Kerala to Uttar Pradesh, state-run UPSC coaching centres are now part of the Rs 3,000 crore industry in India. But they don’t market themselves overtly.
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Rs 2.5 lakh ‘settlement’, but nightmares persist — how ‘tortured’ Assam worker ‘moved on’

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After alleging she was beaten and confined in a Haryana IPS officer’s house last year, Assam domestic worker accepted a 'settlement' to ‘move on’, her parents claim.
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Kashmiri jihad has disappeared. Its only hope now is for New Delhi to make big mistakes

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Since 2001, jihad in Kashmir has often been perched on the edge of the abyss—only to claw its way back because of the failure to build a democratic political order.
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Noida sectors are buzzing with co-working spaces. A start-up culture is taking shape

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Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram are teeming with co-working spaces. From coders, scriptwriters to stand-up comics, there’s a hot-desk for everyone.
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Hindu Rashtra doesn’t sanctify Amritpal’s Sikh separatism. Breaking India won’t fix problems

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It’s odd that in a country where students have been detained for months under UAPA, Singh, with his men wielding heavy weapons, is propagating his pernicious messages.
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Does ASI protected monuments list need pruning? Historians debate what’s nationally important

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Many historians fear that once de-notified, cemeteries, tombs and lesser-known structures will join the ranks of Delhi’s neglected and forgotten monuments.
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North-South divide is feeding migrant fears. But no one asks why Bihar has no factories

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Indians spreading disinformation about mistreatment of migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu must ask why northern states lag southern states in achieving basic governance.
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BJP Pasmanda outreach biggest disruption since Mandal. Desire for quota rising among Muslims

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Scooter yatra, Sneh sammelan, personal meetings with PM—BJP is already prepping for 2024 by Pasmanda outreach.
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Opinion

PM Modi with industrialists | ANI

Cronyism isn’t new. Are we now seeing politics of business turn...

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The Modani model demands a new theory for a State that is at once powerful and weak–powerful in its patronage and punishment but weak in its regulative capacity.
Facing sanctions, and a slowing economy, Xi could just fold, and walk from the crisis he’s marched the country towards. | Representational Image | Pixabay

Western sanctions hurting China’s semiconductor goals. Xi must raise the stakes...

Prince Dixits of social media are a nuisance on Indian roads....

Economy

Representative image | Pixabay

India is prime ground for impact investments. Four factors are driving...

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Samridhi fund, social stock exchange, Atal innovation mission--the Indian government's policy initiatives are further facilitating an investing landscape in India.

Defence

Defence minister Rajnath Singh | Photo: PTI

Made-in-India ATAGS, BrahMos, choppers: Modi govt clears defence acquisitions worth Rs...

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Defence ministry gives nod for capital acquisition under new category of Buy Indian-IDDM. HAL emerges big winner as Navy proposals constitute more than Rs 56,000 cr.

National Interest

Illustration: Soham Sen | ThePrint

You’ve heard of jobless growth. But Tata, Birla, Ambani, Adani, have...

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Modi govt's thrust on manufacturing is much-needed but it is pushing Indian manufacturing in the direction of outsourcing, same as our services industry.

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