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Science

A load is finally off the kilogram

The kilogram will now be defined through the Planck constant

Scientists say the revisions will not visibly alter anything for the general public

By G.S. Mudur

West Bengal

The books gifted to Suryakanta

Unusual gift: pile of books greets groom

By Anshuman Phadikar

India

Opposition focus on EVM

By Sanjay K. Jha

Business

Stock market surges as exit polls predict BJP win

By Our Bureau

India

Amit Shah to host unity dinner at BJP headquarters

By Our Special Correspondent

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A Kashmiri man prays near an unmarked grave that reads,

India

Rights group seek UN probe into torture by troops in Kashmir

By Muzaffar Raina
Every prediction at the close of voting tonight will carry the very opposite of conviction. It will carry a hidden nervousness

Opinion

Admissions of feared defeat

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The Vidyasagar bust that was vandalised during Amit Shah’s roadshow in Calcutta recently

Opinion

Questions about the health of our democracy

By The Editorial Board
Robert F. Smith, the founder and chief executive of Vista Equity Partners, in New York in 2014

People

Commencement speaker’s gift to graduates: He’ll pay off their loans

By New York Times News Service
Pharmacists received Rs 100 for each patient who completed such an X-ray referral and an additional Rs 200 if the patients were diagnosed to have TB. Daftary said the X-ray vouchers possibly played a key role in incentivising patients to look for a diagnosis.

India

Free chest X-ray vouchers push up TB diagnosis: Study

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The Huawei P30 smartphone at an electronics store in Beijing on Monday, May 20, 2019.

World

Google restricts Huawei access to Android

By Adam Satariano/New York Times News Service
The Bonobibi Setu

West Bengal

Bridge of many sighs

By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
Features
Raising a toast to the last few standing — in the show and in the audience
Tamil Nadu’s lone transgender candidate, M. Radha, who contested from South Chennai constituency in this year’s general elections
Election officials check VVPAT, EVMs and other polling materials before leaving for polling centres ahead of the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Prayagraj, Saturday, May 11, 2019.
Comment
(From left) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and RLD chief Ajit Singh during their joint election campaign rally in Firozabad, on April 20, 2019.
The data on food inflation have attracted attention as it soared to a 33-month high in April 2019.
Once in five years. You can imagine. How’s the josh? There was josh. Now it’s gosh.
Of course the temple was wrong. People occupying the streets illegally had made an illegal construction. But it made the pavement look like something else. It had sprouted like a flower in the middle of waste.
BJP supporters clash with police personnel during BJP President Amit Shah's election roadshow in Kolkata, Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Election officials leave after collecting VVPAT machines, EVMs, and other polling material from collection centres ahead of the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bhopal on Saturday
Anything short of a landslide against Modi will set us on a path that is certain to remind us, when we gaze at the rear-view mirror, of James Bond’s retort in 'Casino Royale': “Do I look like I give a damn?”
BJP’s Gautam Gambhir and his wife Natasha Jain show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Old Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi, on May 12, 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally for the Lok Sabha polls, in Prayagraj, on May 9, 2019.
A 2017 report suggested that mechanical jobs in controllable environments like those of machine-operators and fast-food vendors, are potential targets for replacement by robots.
Protesters with images of people who were disappeared during a Mother's Day march in Mexico City on Friday. Mothers and other relatives of persons gone missing in the fight against drug cartels and organised crime are demanding that authorities locate their loved ones

For Mother’s Day, save women’s lives

By Nicholas Kristof/NYTNS

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar campaigned with remarkable sincerity and commitment
The IAAF excludes female athletes with natural testosterone levels higher than 5 nmols/lt from competing in the five athletics events from 400 metres to one mile. These are South African athlete Caster Semenya's events so it’s hard not to conclude that this policy was drafted to punish her
One wonders if we are indeed living in the 21st century or the Dark Ages. In this election campaign we have heard about the size of Smriti Irani’s bindi, Jaya Prada’s underwear, Mayawati's facials, and Priyanka Gandhi being called “skirtwali bai”
Damaged structures and uprooted tress lie along a road in Puri after Cyclone Fani hit the coastal state of Odisha on Friday, May 3, 2019
Most Americans mistakenly believe it to be Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually on September 16.

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