Monday, 30th October 2017

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We've a fight now: Political chemistry has changed

Rahul Gandhi arrives to address the media at the Congress headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday.

Modi’s halo of invincibility dims, Rahul sheds ‘Pappu’ tag for good

By Manini Chatterjee

Opinion

Congress workers celebrate their Assembly election win at its headquarters in New Delhi on December 11, 2018

Demand for 'vikas' trumps bogey of Hindutva

By The Editorial Board

India

Tweets that returned to haunt the BJP

By Manashi Sengupta

Opinion

What the numbers say about farmers' lives

By Prabhat Patnaik

Business

DeMo-era Shaktikanta Das is the new RBI chief

By Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

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Counting in progress in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday.

India

Why counting took so long this time

By Pheroze L. Vincent
A crowd at Barrack Square, Berhampore, as Mamata Banerjee arrives

Culture

Have air campaigns made our netas more removed?

By Pratishtha Singh
Donald Trump departs for Philadelphia after speaking to reporters at the White House on December 8, 2018.

World

Who wants to be Trump's gatekeeper? No one really

By Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni/NYTNS
These days even pets have competition where obeying voice commands are concerned

Opinion

Life with Alexa

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee
Photograph of Chandernagore scanned from the book under review, Chandernagore mon amour: The Citadel of the Moon

Books

Chandernagore’s dilemma

By Nayantara Mazumder
Features
It is a known fact that since 2014, cow vigilante violence has gone up
ABSTRACT: Requiem to Beauteous Bygone Whispers
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas
Comment
A child wears a mask to safeguard herself from air pollution in New Delhi. A report published by The Lancet revealed that air pollution caused the deaths of 1.2 million people in India last year.
Recently retired information commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu has referred, in a letter to the President, to a form of intimidation whereby cases are often filed against information commissioners as individuals
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addresses the gathering at the Jagran forum on the 75th anniversary of Dainik Jagran newspaper, in New Delhi, Friday, December 7, 2018.
In his zeal as the BJP's biggest vote catcher, Narendra Modi sometimes forgets that he is also the prime minister of India, and a particularly egregious instance of this memory lapse was on display last week
Fire brigade personnel work at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on November 29, 2008, after terrorists attacked the hotel and other locations in the city
The gender gap in wages is large by any yardstick of equality and fairness
Natwar Thakkar's life’s work was to forge an honourable compact between the Nagas and the Indian Union.
Not only have shelters been shown up as spaces of exploitation, but survivors are also often trafficked, and re-trafficked, by trusted family members
If Mayavati's Bahujan Samaj Party fails to make an impact, the Congress will be free to attack her bargaining power in Uttar Pradesh and perhaps even force her to align with it in states like Maharashtra and Gujarat
Dunlop House, which has been demolished to make way for a new edifice.
Chinese researcher He Jiankui at a conference in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. The uproar over the unproven report has researchers worried about a backlash.
The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, is often cited as an example of how world-class academic institutions can be built within a relatively short period of time, even in India
Concept of terrorism
In this November 9, 2017, file picture, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China
When his three-year term ended in 2016, Raghuram Rajan waited to be reappointed for a second term, as is the tradition. Instead, Delhi called for applications for governorship: it could not have chosen a better way to insult him
Shooting for an NGO in Dharavi, Mumbai, it was easier as a woman photographer to access spaces in homes and at community gatherings where women felt comfortable enough around an outsider to truly let their guard down.

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