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A paradise lost: How Lavasa fell from grace, leaving homebuyers & creditors in the lurch

NCLT on 6 September scrapped DPIL’s resolution plan for Lavasa and ordered fresh insolvency proceedings. DPIL blamed ‘a few corrupted homebuyers’ and ‘political pressure on banks’.

Haryana farmers are rethinking rice after September rain. Carrots, ginger, turmeric?

Delayed, erratic rains wreaked havoc on Haryana’s rice crops. With stubble-burning restrictions looming, many farmers are eyeing weather-resistant underground crops.

Why aren’t we outraged by Akshay Shinde’s encounter killing? We don’t want the answers

The moment the principle of letting the police kill anyone they claim is guilty is extended to the killing of middle-class people, the public response is suddenly very different.

Urdu is the ticket to a govt job in this Rajasthan village. Even more than English

‘There’s not a single Muslim student’ here. Sidra village has become the region’s Urdu ‘influencer’.

Will JVP resume war on Sri Lanka’s ethnic minorities? Party’s rise reopens festering wounds

The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the JVP’s politics and cultural imagination.

The promise of Ambedkar University Delhi is in tatters. Professors are quitting & suing

Ambedkar University Delhi has thrived, stagnated, and now declined. Staff are voting with their feet.

In J&K, the police are the ‘intimate enemy’ battling guilt of working against their own & fear of death

Lines are often blurry as retired IPS officer says police & militancy exist within same classroom, family, sometimes within same person. 'It is not easy being police here,' he adds.

Tirupati god was originally offered pongal. North Indian pilgrims brought laddus

Tirumala was once a minor shrine with only local devotees. It grew as an investment destination for Vijayanagara elites in the 16th century.

Rajasthan’s 17 new districts are running from mandis, hostels, schools. A logistical mess

A year after Rajasthan’s 17 new districts were carved out, they’ve become a political battleground between BJP and Congress. But action on a review panel’s report still pending.

Chandrababu Naidu’s Tirupati charade won’t work. Andhra Pradesh is not Gujarat

Luckily for the YSR Congress Party—and for the Opposition in Andhra Pradesh—Jagan Mohan Reddy, although a dynast, is no Rahul Gandhi.

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.