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A girl, her ‘killer’ & a guru — how ‘murdered’ UP woman was found alive 7 years later

Woman went missing in 2015 & parents said unidentified body recovered from Agra was hers. She has now been found living with husband & kids and taken to observation home.

Battle over history just got a giant new classroom in India—YouTube

In the age of rebuilding Ram Temple at Ayodhya, history is now everybody’s business—not just of elite scholars like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib.

9 yrs, 133 hearings & counting — a Ranchi man’s case exemplifies endless delays in NIA trials

According to data available on NIA website, its Delhi office has registered 288 cases since 2009, of which 7 have been closed, judgment pronounced in 14 & part verdict given in 7.

Delhi University is the new battleground for queer students—stigma, suppression and suicide

At Hindu College, Zakir Husain College, Jesus and Mary College, and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, the demands of students for a queer collective are met with resistance, ignorance, indifference, and even threats by authorities.

It’s time to end Budget secrecy, deal final blow to India’s colonial hangover

Budget secrecy isn't needed for a number of reasons, and doing away with it would actually benefit India's policymakers.

‘I was lost’: Thrust into world of IITs, rural Navodaya Vidyalaya alums have each other’s back

Students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) have a solid track record of making it to IITs, but fitting in can be tough. JNV support groups offer solace, and a sense of pride.

Akhand Bharat shouldn’t enter Indian military gates. Army can’t afford to lose focus

Whenever India’s political or military leaders brandish threats during periods of ‘uneasy peace’, Pakistan Army becomes the main beneficiary.

Sparrows are coming back to Delhi finally. A new forest is now their safe haven

By next year, sparrows counting will be conducted to establish the impact of conservation efforts. It shows that these grassroots efforts can have an impact.

Big B, ‘Computer ji, Lock kiya jaaye’ — what Amitabh Bachchan’s suit for personality rights means

Granting an injunction, Delhi HC found that defendants appear to be using Big B's celebrity status for 'promoting their own activities, without his authorisation or permission'.

Bihar’s YouTube Bahubalis are here. They follow no rules but police, politicians fear them

The digital Bahubalis of Bihar are mini-Arnab Goswamis. But they are not journalists.

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.