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US to remove Iran oil waiver for India

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference on Monday, April 22, 2019, at the Department of State in Washington.

The rupee and stock prices fell on the fear that an adverse US decision on Iran oil sanction was imminent

By Our bureau and Reuters

India

Justice Gogoi

Bar assails procedure on charge against CJI

By R. Balaji

India

Rahul expresses regret to Supreme Court on Rafale comment

By Our Legal Correspondent

Opinion

In Wayanad, one Rahul, many Gandhis

By Uddalak Mukherjee

India

Alliance test in BJP’s southern citadel

By K.M. Rakesh

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A view of St. Sebastian's Church, which was damaged in a bomb blast in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019.

Opinion

Bombings rekindle painful memories in Sri Lanka

By The Editorial Board
While year-to-year impacts of temperature change may be small, researchers say their impacts over decades could be significant.

Science

Global warming robs poor, pays rich, say US researchers

By G.S. Mudur
Sri Lankan Navy soldiers stand guard in front of the St. Anthony's Shrine a day after the series of blasts, in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Monday, April 22, 2019.

World

Sri Lanka grants army sweeping powers after blasts

By AP
Muslims try to take tentative steps out of their political isolation — while voting for the Congress out of compulsion in successive elections

India

Scarred by 2002 riots, Muslims lament Congress' indifference

By Anita Joshua
A student participates in a protest against the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh on September 7, 2017. India is one of the nations with the highest number of murders of journalists still pending investigation.

Opinion

Press freedom is on the decline in India

By The Editorial Board
Six-time world boxing champion Mary Kom

People

Mary Kom and her fist of fury

By Saionee Chakraborty
Director Ronny Sen

Entertainment

Black and white allows you to say a lot more: Ronny Sen

By Ushnota Paul
Features
Karan Johar had initially planned to make Kalank his big casting coup with Ajay Devgn as the khandani, legitimate son and Shah Rukh Khan as the boy out there in Lahore’s notorious Hira Mandi but shelved it temporarily
Anand Patwardhan’s latest film, Reason, is divided into eight chapters with names like Shivaji Kaun Thhe, In the Name of Cow, and so on
Comment
BJP candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal on Thursday, April 18, 2019. She is the ideal mascot to convey two central and intertwined Hindtuva themes: the Hindu as the “victim” and the Hindu as the “avenger”
In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures to supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he lived in self imposed exile from 2012 until his arrest on April 11, 2019.
Shakeel Ahmed turned a rebel to file his nomination from Madhubani, his traditional bastion
Former chief election commissioner T.N. Seshan represented the flip-side of a lax culture of informality — where the gaps in the law were weaponized to keep political parties in check
As one billionaire after another pulled millions of dollars out of their pockets to help restore Notre-Dame after the recent fire, and President Emmanuel Macron promised to restore the cathedral, many people burned with anger and a sense of neglect
Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal was allegedly propped up by a scheming world of crony capitalism
Members of the largest minority community feel deeply insecure as it is their food, beef, that is being projected as equivalent to poison for the majority community
Kim A. Wagner
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at Akluj, in Solapur district, Maharashtra, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
Owning a toilet is no guarantee of use as several studies, field visits and interviews with sanitation workers have shown

The truth about Swachh Bharat

By Nitya Jacob and Sunetra Lala

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati addresses a press conference after Election Commission banned her from campaigning for two days, in Lucknow on Monday, April 15, 2019.
Under authoritarian regimes, school-level history is often purged of episodes of violence, atrocities and other forms of oppression perpetrated by the State to create a facade of harmony and unity

When history is a weapon

By Shuvatri Dasgupta

The papers reveal how brazenly the Prime Minister’s Office rode roughshod over the Indian negotiating team by offering unprecedented waivers in offset agreements, and the changes made by the Narendra Modi-led government seem like mala fides
After 12 days and external pressure on the Election Commission to act properly, it is now reasserting its time-tested media content monitoring committee procedure, to check and certify all material before it is telecast.
The Greenpeace report placed Lahore in the 10th spot and New Delhi eleventh in a global list of 4,200 odd cities with toxic air
The practice of getting women cane-cutters in the Beed district of Maharashtra to rid themselves of the womb after having two or three children is refreshingly modern and scientifically carried out.

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