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TopicAllahabad

Topic: Allahabad

Two crore devotees expected to take Kumbh’s third ‘shahi snaan’ on Sunday

Arunav Sinha -
'Shahi snaan' is considered the highlight of Kumbh Mela, which commenced on January 15. The last bathing day will be on Mahashivratri on March 4.

Gadkari promises ‘flying buses’ to connect Varanasi to Allahabad

PTI -
Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari announced plans to develop waterways in the Saryu river, and said these would allow travel to Bangladesh via Varanasi.

Paneer masala, gulab jamuns: Trains to serve vegetarian food to Pravasi Bharatiya delegates

Ananya Sengupta -
North Indian vegetarian food will be served on Allahabad-Delhi special trains. 

Cultural Taliban in India needs to watch Dharmendra’s ‘Chupke Chupke’ again

Amit Upadhyaya -
Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Chupke Chupke, set in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), delivers a simple message through hilarious performances.

Allahabad is now ‘Prayagraj’, after Yogi Aditynath’s UP cabinet approves its renaming

PTI -
Opposition parties have criticised the decision, which comes ahead of the Kumbh Mela in January next year.
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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

DM Kulkarni -
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

Parineeta to Queen—What Hindi cinema’s marriages reveal about us

With MGNREGA dismantled, Modi govt now has to prepare for upheaval in rural economy

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

Shekhar Gupta -
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.

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