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Raids coincide with land rule disquiet

Crackdown across civil society in Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has raided a cross-section of the civil society in Kashmir, including human rights defenders and journalists, on a day resistance seemed to be crystallising against the new land purchase policy notified by the Centre. Officials of the NIA, which reports to the Union home ministry, said searches were carried out on 10 premises in Srinagar and Bandipora in the Kashmir Valley and on one locality in Bangalore in connection with a case involving NGOs and trusts raising funds at home and ab...

Land ache in Hindu belt too

Tensions are flaring up in Jammu’s Hindu heartland and BJP stronghold against the Centre’s decision to allow sale of land in Jammu and Kashmir to outsiders, w...

DU: axe on VC uncovers mess

President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday suspended Delhi University’s absentee vice-chancellor, Yogesh K. Tyagi, on the charge of “misgovernance” but seve...
In May 2018, Schneider Electric along with Singapore’s state investment firm Temasek Holdings had announced an all-cash buyout of L&T’s electrical and automation business for Rs 14,000 crore.

L&T special dividend Rs 18

Engineering & construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday declared a special dividend of Rs 18 per share as it looked to distribute a part of the proceed...
Flames leap out of the FD Block puja pandal on Wednesday

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H-1B: US mulls fresh changes

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There is massive anger in the Valley against the decision, but there have been no street protests here so far

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Mayawati faces split threat over BJP

A threat to the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate’s prospects in the November 9 Rajya Sabha elections seemed to blow over on Wednesday evening bu...

Music and performing arts are not only for amusement but can also be a lucrative career if one chooses the right kind of training, writes professor Goutam Ghosh.

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NCP chief and former Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday blamed the central government's policies for the rising prices of onion, and said he would speak to the Centre about the stock limit imposed on the commodity traders.

One lakh tonne onions released in market

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 10,65,63,440 samples have been tested up to October 28 with 10,75,760 samples being tested on Wednesday.

Covid cases goes past 80 lakh mark

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SC stays points but not main waiver

The first case in the state was recorded on March 24

Mizoram records first Covid death

Border: China tells US off on India

After India and the US deepened its partnership at the 2+2 dialogue in an evolving dynamic hastened by the face-off along the Line of Actual Control (...

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Calcutta: city of affordable homes

Calcutta has toppled Hyderabad to become the most affordable city for buying property in the country even as doubts persist if this will be an incenti...

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Eye on KKR batsmen for last-4 charge

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Love: the most troublesome word

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Soumitra: The Fan's Daughter

Motion pictures are strange things. They capture and keep the impression of a person as he or she was 20, 30, 40, even 70 years ago. That allows generations of women and men to rave ab...
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In less than a fortnight, by the afternoon of November 10 to be precise, the outcome of the Bihar assembly election will be known. There will be the usual flurry of momentary excitement as the poli...

A voter shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote for the first phase of Bihar Assembly Election, amid the coronavirus pandemic, at Bhabhua police station in Kaimur district, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020.
The prevailing discourse on the mask argues confidently that the fabric meant to conceal identity has, ironically, revealed subterranean, strange contradictions in both the West and the East.
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Civil rights Leaders hold hands as they lead a crowd of hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. Those in attendance include (front row): James Meredith and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968), left; (L-R) Roy Wilkins (1901 - 1981), light-colored suit, A. Phillip Randolph (1889 - 1979) and Walther Reuther (1907 - 1970).
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Severe air pollution in Delhi as seen from a tall building day after Diwali.
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The state’s total number of active cases, which were 37,190 on Monday, fell to 37,111 on Wednesday. The continuous decline is the first since a 15-day spell of such drop ended on September 7.
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From October 15 to 21, 722 people in the district got infected with the pathogen among whom 393 were from Siliguri, said a health official.
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Many schools would always ask about the family income in admission forms but the question has become more pertinent now, con- versations with a number of school administrators suggest.
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Idol immersion in the Hoogly during low tide on Monday.
Fliers from Dhaka leave the airport on Wednesday afternoon.
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Irang, one of the Amur falcons which returned to Tamenglong
Assam PCC chief Ripun Bora said that a meeting with the CPI and the CPI-ML held on October 15 discussed the prevailing political situation and the need for a joint and appropriate response by the Opposition
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Don Mclean is 75 years young now, firm in the belief that everything has to “come back to where it started”.
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There is massive anger in the Valley against the decision, but there have been no street protests here so far
In this June 10, 2020 file photo, Union Ministry of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani addresses Delhi Jan Samwad Rally via video conference, in New Delhi.
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The first case in the state was recorded on March 24
The 2020 report on rural school enrolment found 66.4% of the boys and 73% of the girls on the rolls of government schools — a rise of over three percentage points
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L&T special dividend Rs 18

Engineering & construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday declared a special dividend of Rs 18 per share as it looked to distribute a part of the proceeds from the Schneider Elec...
In May 2018, Schneider Electric along with Singapore’s state investment firm Temasek Holdings had announced an all-cash buyout of L&T’s electrical and automation business for Rs 14,000 crore.
On a standalone level, the third-largest private lender had a post-tax net of Rs 1,682.67 crore against a loss of Rs 112.08 crore in the year-ago period. 

Axis Bank posts Q2 profit

Axis Bank on Wednesday reported a consolidated pro...
The scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A statement from JBIC said the the loan was intended to provide, through SBI, funds necessary for the manufacturing and sales business of suppliers and dealers of Japanese automobile manufacturers and for the provision of loans for the purchase of Japanese automobiles.
Of the 21,652 entities that executed trade on BSE stock options segment, a total of 14,720 entities were involved in the generation of artificial volumes by executing non-genuine/reversal trades on the same day.
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Mumbai Indians are all but through to the IPL 2020 playoffs. On Wednesday, they rode scintillating performances by Jasprit Bumrah (3/14) and Suryakumar Yadav (79 not out) to defeat Royal Challengers B...
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Anjali and Kumari Puja in Covid times

All rituals performed but with an air of caution
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Mumbai struggles to stay afloat

Masks, sanitiser and staggered entry
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Masks, sanitiser and staggered entry

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Delhi Metro resumes services

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