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Allegations of India flattering growth figures unfounded; and Gautam Adani, the escape artist

Global media reports from the ground on the heat in one of India's hottest towns, how outdoor workers have adapted their schedule to the rise and relative fall of temperatures. 

‘He doesn’t smile anymore’: The broken children left behind by the monster of Chitrakoot

UP's Ram Bhawan & his wife Durgawati were sentenced to death last month for sexually abusing several minors. ThePrint managed to trace & talk to some of the traumatised children & families.

UP father-son duo beat up Dalit woman for drawing water from borewell. ‘Held her by the neck,’ says husband

Police in UP's Banda say FIR delayed due to 'preliminary inquiry'. Husband alleges Dalit woman was told by borewell owner she could not drink from container 'owing to her caste'.

‘Jhola-yukt, plastic-mukt’ — How Banda’s DM went plastic-free, from govt meetings to markets

In ‘Dynamic DM’, Heera Lal writes how the Banda DM’s bungalow only had earthenware utensils and in government meetings, tea was served in kulhads.

Who is behind Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Bulldozer baba’? Not BJP or RSS, it’s the Congress

Dhirendra Krishna Shastri is a 25-yr-old man who went from an auto driver to a godman. Last week, he told Hindus to ‘wake up’ and level ‘stone-pelters’ houses with bulldozers’.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.