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Please restore normalcy, says mellow Mamata

Mamata Banerjee at the news conference in Nabanna, Calcutta.

Redeploying the people skills that had once stood her in good stead, Mamata said: 'They are young, they made a mistake, let them be, I forgive them.'

By Pranesh Sarkar

Cricket

A young Indian fan at Trent Bridge waits for India and New Zealand to start playing at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on June 13. India and Pakistan will face off at Old Trafford.

Is the India-Pakistan match worth the hype?

By Sanjeeb Mukherjea

India

Junior doctors also keen to talk

By Subhankar Chowdhury and Aditya Nag

India

Niti Aayog: $5 trillion and drought on Modi’s mind

By TT Bureau

People

Comedy is when you hit back with wit at the oppressor: Varun Grover

By Paromita Kar

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Fans celebrate a boundary by Hardik Pandya during the match with Australia at The Oval in London on June 9, 2019. Between Tebbit’s traitors and Bharat Army tourists, every match India plays in England feels like a home game

Opinion

Cricket doesn't matter in England ⁠— so what?

By Mukul Kesavan
A shopping mall in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. As a ground-level politician for the last three decades, visiting principally the poor in every village panchayat and every town/city ward of my constituency, I have had great difficulty in persuading the people that the good days are here

Opinion

The Hindutva rate of growth

By Mani Shankar Aiyar
A jackfoot tree, which bears Kerala’s official fruit

India

Kerala town makes planting of fruit trees essential

By K.M. Rakesh
Arun Kumar in the little patch of sustenance he has crafted

India

The road not given to the graduate in chemistry

By Sankarshan Thakur
If a parent suspects that something is amiss, then what? The obvious thing to do is to engage the child in a discussion

Health

Psychiatric illnesses may haunt children

By J.R. Ram
Features
Shah Rukh Khan
R.D. Burman and Asha Bhosle
Ruby Hembrom, founder of Adivaani says since its inception in 2012, Adivaani has produced 19 books
Comment
In this twilight between being and not being, between being what requires no finding and being lost. They flew. They were to land. They were lost, they were to be found. Between take off and landing there lay no mystery.
A patient arrives for treatment in NRS Medical College and Hospital even as junior doctors continue their protest. No justification is enough for the continued suffering of the ailing brought on by interrupted medical services
Detail from a painting that depicts a scene from the battle of Kurukshetra of the Mahabharata epic, painted circa 1820
If you made a pile of all the packaging used by a passenger travelling from Delhi to Calcutta across a 17-hour journey you would get a small mountain of plastic ‘prasad’ per person. Now, imagine a few hundred thalis of this lined up on the platform next to the Rajdhani Express
Students take part in a green drive in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills on June 5, 2019. Meghalaya has planted 1.5 million saplings on a single day.
Asif Ali Zardari (centre) leaves the High Court building, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 10, 2019.
Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930. In a letter to Viceroy Lord Irwin in March 1930, Gandhi described the salt tax as
Rajnath Singh along with three Services’ Chiefs pays homage to martyrs at National War Memorial ahead of taking charge as Union defence minister, in New Delhi on Saturday, June 1, 2019.
We beat you. But we want to beat you more. We want to beat you like there was no beating. We are on top.
Utilizing the surplus of dentists to make up for the shortage of MBBS doctors can be beneficial in the short-term, but it needs to be seen that dentistry does not become a back-door entry into MBBS in the future
For equality: Revelers carry a Rainbow Flag along Fifth Avenue during the New York City Pride Parade in New York in this file photo
Ibn Khaldun. The Arab scholar helps us understand why Jagan and Naveen succeeded, while Rahul failed
A scientific review of 113 studies concluded that there was a heavy impact on the development of and reproduction among birds and insects, due to the effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields

How safe is 5G for the planet?

By Bidisha Biswas

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a parliamentary board meeting in New Delhi on May 25, 2019. Immediately after the election results were declared, his government published GDP figures that showed the lowest quarterly growth in the last five years
Newly-elected BJP MP from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, after her win in the Lok Sabha elections at BJP's state headquarters in Bhopal, on May 24, 2019. She has been charged with masterminding the Malegaon bombings of 2006, which claimed 40 lives.
Smriti Irani dethroned the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, from Amethi, breaching a bastion that had remained loyal to the Gandhis for years. India ranks fifth in South Asia for women’s political representation, behind Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal

India lags in women's representation

By Santosh Kumar Biswal

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Nitish speaks up for state schemes at Niti meeting

By Dev Raj
World

Jeremy Corbyn challenges US on Iran

By Amit Roy
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Culture

Comedy is when you hit back with wit at the oppressor: Varun Grover

By Paromita Kar

Around the world: The story of an octogenarian globetrotter

By Moumita Chaudhuri

Bobbi Brown on what it’s been like and what’s coming up

By Saionee Chakraborty

Shakespeare: Transcending boundaries

By Souvik Mukherjee

Shararas and dates ruled the streets of Old Delhi this Ramzan

By Zumbish

Killing fear, one artwork at a time

By Anannya Sarkar

There is more to the raw mango than meets the tongue

By Moumita Chaudhuri

Ever thought of visiting a broom museum?

By Anasuya Basu

Cocktail recipes to celebrate World Gin Day

By Smita Tripathi

Commemorating historian Romila Thapar

By Soumen Mukherjee

Lisa Ray's new book on surviving adversity

By The Telegraph

Recipe: Lagan ki boti, an Awadhi meat preparation

By Smita Tripathi

Sports for all: the Santhal Premier League

By Manasi Shah

The views at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve

By Chandana Ghosh

The romantic story behind Odisha's Belgadia Palace

By Prasun Chaudhuri

History in silk

By The Telegraph

Why Naveen Patnaik keeps winning

By Ruben Banerjee, an extract from his book Naveen Patnaik

Remembering Solzhenitsyn in Putin's Russia

By Sankar Ray

Dawood Ibrahim and the murky world of match fixing

By Chandramohan Puppala, an extract from his book No Ball: The murky world of match fixing

Gondhoraj: The king of limes

By Anjan Chatterjee

Traditional dresses as resistance

By Victoria Blanco/ New York Times News Service

Story of a young mountaineer

By Prasun Chaudhuri

White walk to Kanchenjunga

By Sumit Bhattacharya

Reviving love for the language

By Anasuya Basu

Women scientists who changed the world

By Debashis Gangopadhyay

A Tagore brother that time forgot

By Bhaswati Chakravorty

Pichvai: Making a 400-year-old art form transcend time

By Anannya Sarkar

Those who chase the poll wind

By Uddalak Mukherjee

The RSS: Probing beneath the surface

By TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

How I arrested Advani: Lalu Prasad Yadav

By Lalu Prasad Yadav: an extract from his book, Gopalganj to Raisina: My Political Journey