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Unprecedented protection to MLAs: Congress

The apex court, ruling on the Karnataka political crisis, said 15 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs

Speaker can take his time to decide on resignations, but BJP has the numbers

By The Telegraph

India

The Peace Palace, the seat of ICJ in Hague, Netherlands

Review Kulbhushan Jadhav case, ICJ tells Pakistan

By The Telegraph

Opinion

Auto industry: Caught in the perfect storm

By Deepesh Rathore

India

The Ujjwala riddle

By G.S. Mudur

Opinion

When the losers are as good as the winners

By The Editorial Board

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People queue up to get their names checked in the draft NRC in Assam's Tezpur

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Assam seeks NRC sample re-check

By Our Legal Correspondent
The vision of a $5-trillion economy disregards India's exploded population, a problem that stands laundered to market and workforce.

Opinion

New visiting card: 'Professional Pessimist'

By Shyam G. Menon
Christine Lagarde

World

Lagarde resigns as IMF chief

By Reuters

Entertainment

Not quite black or white

By Amit Roy
A study by University of Toronto Mississauga researchers found people who took very small doses of psychedelic substances, including hallucinogenic mushrooms, reported improved mood and focus

Science

Psychedelic microdoses can help focus: study

By Elaine Smith
Features
When Super 30 moves into a classroom environment with prolonged scenes between teacher and students, things must be made viewer-friendly through relatable problems
For Aditya Puri, the key lesson was that fintechs were not reinventing a bank, they were just riding on the platform of the banks with sophisticated apps
Kangana Ranaut
Comment
Students in masks of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at an election rally in Calcutta in April 2019. Banerjee's government must govern responsibly, handle law and order firmly, and crack down on corruption and nepotism.
Residents line up for checking the final draft of NRC in Tengabasti, Assam. On July 30, 2018, the complete draft of the NRC was released, with the names of nearly 40 lakh people missing. On June 30 this year, an additional draft list was published with names of another 1.02 lakh excluded names.
It used to be easier to speak truth to power. But the powerful have become terribly thin-skinned, taking umbrage at the most inconsequential insults and unleashing their might on those coming up with more damning questions against authority
Indian supporters celebrate after New Zealand's Martin Guptill (foreground) was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah during the cricket World Cup semi-final match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019
We’ve ventured where we needn’t have. We’ve regularly made misadventures of ill-thought ventures
Police outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong a day after it was stormed by protesters. The territory’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has been under enormous pressure because of her mishandling of the situation and for championing the extradition bill earlier
An electronic voting machine (EVM). ‘Name-order effects’— the relationship between the position of a candidate’s name on the ballot and his/her electoral success — has been well-established in political science literature
The Economic Survey has claimed that data are a public commodity and, hence, people should benefit from large data sets.
The recent arrest of Rana Sanaullah, a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), sent shivers down the spine of many. He was arrested in an alleged drug bust, and could face a death sentence. Even his political rivals admit that he may be many things but he is no drug lord.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury (extreme right) campaigning for Lok Sabha Election 2019 in West Bengal. Today there is little to distinguish the Left from others.
Tuberculosis, which claims more lives than any other infectious disease in India and around the world, has a strong correlation with poverty. Some patients have even sold off their land or incurred debts to continue their treatment
Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary, at Shanti Vana in New Delhi on May 27, 2019. The Congress gained its ground from the national movement, with the majority of its supporters rooting for the charismatic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi

Lessons from Mughal history

By Prakhar Singh

Subramanian Swamy does not enjoy the prime minister’s trust
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The gaokao is seen as the only fair chance for students of rural or poor backgrounds to better their lives
Karl Marx and Mahatma Gandhi. Just as industrial capitalism produced its critique in Karl Marx’s utopian ideas, violence aggravated by modernity found its critique in Gandhi’s utopian idealism

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