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Pune chaiwala to tea tycoon, Navnath Yewale looked to pro tips from Modi and McDonald’s

From one tapri stall in Pune, Yewale Amruttulya has brewed an empire with over 550 outlets on the back of Rs 10 tea. For founder Navnath Yewale, 33rd venture proved to be the lucky charm.

In ‘Udta Kullu’, villagers destroy 15 hectares of cannabis plants ‘on deity’s command’

Armed with sickles, and ‘divine intervention’, villagers from Kullu's Kothi Sari valley uprooted cannabis plants after their local goddess 'told them' it would end dry spell in region.

After 10 years, Modi has accepted the Indian political consensus: ignore the middle class

The middle class, though largely loyal to the BJP, now has other options. The angry reaction to Budget 2024 shows how they feel betrayed.

‘We are scientists, not beggars’. Indian Science Congress is in a war against govt

The 110-year-old ISCA is locked in a fierce tussle with govt over accusations of misusing funds and favouritism. Now a fight for autonomy is playing out in the corridors of power, court.

How did taxes work in medieval India? Chola, Mughal subjects struggled like today’s middle-class

In Tamil Nadu, we have an extraordinary archive of over 13,000 stone inscriptions on temple walls, recording the taxation, sale, and cultivation of land.

Once-powerful AIMPLB is battling multiple crises. Internal strife, calls for reforms and UCC

UCC is an existential battle for All India Muslim Personal Law Board. ‘If it comes into the country, the board will end’.

Pakistan has laid a trap for itself in Gwadar — by letting conspiracy theories dictate policy

R&AW would be guilty of incompetence if it didn’t have ties with Baloch rebels. But the conspiratorialism of Pakistani intelligence is again pushing the country toward disastrous missteps.

Why Tamil Nadu’s latest spate of political murders isn’t very political

From Congress's Immanuel Sekaran in 1957 to Bahujan Samaj Party's K. Armstrong this year, Tamil Nadu politics has a bloody history. But the motives have changed.

West panic over baby bust isn’t for economists to fix. Leave it to the feminists

Wealthy countries in the West and Asia aren’t producing enough new people but are retaining existing ones longer. The question is, will this become a woman’s burden?

‘Every farmer in Sikar answers MP Amra Ram’s call’. He is more than just spectacle politics

Sikar is like a red island in Rajasthan’s sea of saffron, and Amra Ram is the showman captain of a surprisingly sturdy CPI(M) ship.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.