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Explosions kill at least 207 in Sri Lanka

Relatives of a blast victim grieve outside a morgue in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Sunday, April 21, 2019.

Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena told reporters on Sunday evening that seven suspects had been arrested

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India

Former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

Nyay doable, says Manmohan Singh

By Our Special Correspondent

India

My brother Rahul, told by Priyanka

By K.M. Rakesh

India

Conspiracy to deactivate CJI: Gogoi

By R. Balaji

India

Lawyers raise questions on CJI presence in court

By TT Bureau

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Two men in a canoe make their way on the backwaters off Ernakulam.

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Where promises are like rogue elephants

By Shyam G. Menon
Interestingly, Zoo Babies and True Stories from the Moscow Zoo offer glimpses of a communist State’s scientific yet humane management of zoos, turning the enclosures into sites of meaningful engagement between visitors and the visited

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The lady who fell in love with a lioness

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All of this works for me. These violations, this mayhem, these body bags, these funerals. Let me know wherever they happen next and I shall be there. To pay tribute. To make another speech. To rave and rant in your name.

Opinion

I am the Nation

By Sankarshan Thakur
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at Araria lok sabha constituency, in Forbesganj on Saturday, April 20, 2019.

India

Goa church backs priest who criticised Modi

By PTI
Footage has emerged fron India of Meghan Markle in the sari she wore on a visit to India in 2017, and shown on ITV and also widely published in newspapers

World

Television footage released of Meghan in a sari

By Amit Roy
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
Lalu Prasad Yadav believes in the end, history will judge him less unkindly than contemporary India has done
Comment
Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal was allegedly propped up by a scheming world of crony capitalism
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
Kim A. Wagner
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
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
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.
Only weeks ago, against the backdrop of Pulwama, Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan had been urging his Indian counterpart to “give peace a chance”
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The trophy called WeThePeepuls is up for grabs again

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