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MNC jobs, fat salaries — after IITs, IIMs, lesser-known pvt colleges are acing placement game

With offers of Rs 40 lakh and above as starting salaries, students from such colleges are getting placed in top companies. Industry experts say firms today put 'skills over pedigree'.

Hijab, Rampuri dialect, Muslim irony—Instagram’s Bajis are flexing identity, shifting gaze

How do you become a Muslim Instagram sensation and not look weak? UP's Bajis are doing it.

Bharat Jodo Yatra has opened room for new imagination of India — ‘South-up’

If we have to resist majoritarianism, we must turn to the three ideological pillars of Dravidian politics: Regionalism, rationalism, and social justice in new ways.

Prison reforms need to go beyond music and meditation. Try handloom

Almost half the inmates in India's prisons are sole breadwinners of their families.

Hiding Nazi connect to helping KGB spy, Queen Elizabeth II put family first

Queen Elizabeth II and her mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon allegedly protected a KGB spy for fear he might reveal the dark family secrets of Edward VIII.

‘Nothing has broken us yet’ — NGO helping teens ‘raped’ by Lingayat swami not new to backlash

Mysuru NGO Odanadi helped 2 minors file a rape complaint against influential Murugha Mutt chief. Since then, it has faced ‘death threats’, but is still rallying for complainants.

Official language treats Indians as Lallu of Hum Log. Hindi Diwas won’t address that issue

Official Hindi is the product of official English, which has inherited the tone, vocabulary and expressions from colonial administrative discourse.

Did Bose flirt with fascism? Both Modi govt and West are reading him wrong

Once overlooked by the secular establishment, Subhas Chandra Bose was eventually sought to be appropriated by communists, embraced by socialists, reclaimed by Congress, and adopted as a hero by Hindu supremacists.

Steel frame of India is singing and dancing. IAS officers are discovering their art

From IAS officer Hari Om who sings to Abhishek Singh who starred in Delhi Crime, India's IAS officers are showing their talent beyond administration.

Heard of famine wages? How British rulers’ thrift policies shaped Indian capitalism

The British govt’s management of famines saw mass deaths, underpaid work in relief camps and caste preferences.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

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.