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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
TopicIndian barn owl

Topic: Indian barn owl

Bound, choked and tortured—Diwali isn’t bright for Indian owls

Feathers, claws, hearts, blood, eyes, beaks, eggshells, bones and even owl tears are used for mystical rituals and black magic practices.

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What Welcome to the Jungle can learn from Priyadarshan’s Hera Pheri

People in comedies now come well-dressed and sleek-haired. They stand in one place and deliver lines. The films are walkie-talkie conversations.

The real danger of these hot new derivatives is being ignored

Letting traders borrow too much money on volatile crypto assets increases the risk of automatic sell-offs and heavy losses.

General Dhiraj Seth, the ‘tankman’, takes over as Army chief. A modernisation challenge awaits

Gen Seth is regarded as an officer who is very focused on modernisation & analysing latest trends in military warfare globally and in the immediate region.

Publisher ban on Sacco’s brilliant Muzaffarnagar riot comic is a cynical joke on India’s freedoms

Sacco’s ‘reporting’ is incredibly granular but there are areas where he can be faulted. Don’t let this undermine where his true focus is, in showing how local disputes led to riots.