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Punjab cops trace Mohali bomb hoax emails to Dhaka, sender threatened to ‘poison’ CM Mann

The correspondence, which mentioned the Khalistan Referendum and the sacrifices of Sikh militants, was from an outfit calling itself the ‘Khalistan National Army’.

Bombay’s modernism was driven by the middle class, not elites

Compared to the intellectual modernism of Calcutta or the climatically responsive architecture of Madras, Bombay’s modernism was visual, performative, and deeply embedded in everyday life.

British aristocrat women would have rather died than wear anything made in India

Anuradha Kumar’s 'Wanderers, Adventurers, Missionaries: Early Americans in India' chronicles how all these early visitors were profoundly changed by their ‘Indian experience’.

‘Chhoti Si Baat’ to ‘Piya Ka Ghar’, heritage walk takes you through Basu Chatterjee’s Bombay

Basu Da’s Bombay is a 4-km heritage walk through 1970s Mumbai via the lens of Basu Chatterjee—Chicken Alapoos to Eros Cinema dreams.

How US charmed Bombay with jazz—and left Indians feeling Americans were their blood brothers

Did the agenda work in India? Fifty years later, fans still remember the warmth and excitement of jazz, as the audience at an IIC talk proved.

The Kamathipura cages: Where women lived and died

In ‘Tales of Crimes Past’, Sunil Nair talks about scandals, murders, poisoning, and delinquency in pre-independence India.

Taxi Driver — one of India’s first ‘cabbie films’, which sealed Dev Anand’s romantic hero image

On Dev Anand's 98th birth anniversary, ThePrint revisits a film close to his heart — a complete Anand family production, whose heroine he married.

Stop ‘prabhat pheris’, the British told Gandhi. It’s a vulgar nuisance, threatens civic order

In 'Singing Gandhi's India', Lakshmi Subramanian writes about why Gandhi insisted on supporting musical processions despite the controversy over them in 1930s.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.