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TopicKumbh Mela

Topic: Kumbh Mela

Techies may have answer to Sabarimala, Ayodhya rows — but are temples or mosques ready?

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
VR or virtual reality is a technological breakthrough that is allowing devotees to experience Kumbh Mela away from Prayagraj.

Media dances to natak in Karnataka

Simrin Sirur -
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2019 Kumbh Mela is the costliest ever with a budget of Rs 4,200 crore

PTI -
This year's Kumbh Mela is spread over an area of 3,200 hectare as compared to 1,600 hectare area in the previous melas.

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. 

Bombay High Court orders Fadnavis govt to take urgent steps to check pollution in Godavari

PTI -
The Godavari river was allegedly polluted by the Kumbh Mela held in Nashik in 2015 and other religious events.

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.

A message for the PM from ‘mentor’ Mukherjee’s Nagpur speech

Jyoti Malhotra -
The PM can hardly ignore the lesson in pluralism and nationalism from a man he professes to admire so much.
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Opinion

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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