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India

How real is the population boom scare?

India has halved its total fertility rate from nearly 5 that was 50 years back to 2.2 to 2.3 now

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech linked the decision to have small families to patriotism

By Vishal Narayan

India

“Our manufacturing facilities will be closed from August 15 to 18. While this has been part of the annual holiday calendar on account of Independence Day, Raksha Bandhan and the weekend, it also partly reflects the prevailing market demand scenario,” Hero MotoCorp said

Auto crisis hits Hero plants too

By TT Bureau

India

Kashmiri Pandits who stayed on fear the worst now

By Muzaffar Raina

India

Kashmir at UN after half a century

By Anita Joshua

India

No-first-use not cast in stone, says Rajnath Singh

By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui and G.S. Mudur

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Sonia Gandhi at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday.

India

Sonia Gandhi flags truth, non-violence & patriotism

By Our Special Correspondent
Satya Pal Malik during the hoisting of the national flag at Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2019.

India

Independence Day in Kashmir, minus Kashmir

By Muzaffar Raina
Jawaharlal Nehru with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Books

When Nehru wrote to Patel regarding Kashmir

By Jawaharlal Nehru, an extract from the book 'Who is Bharat Mata?'
Mumbai on Thursday

Business

Pathway to $5-trillion dream

By Our Special Correspondent
Elvis Presley at his iconic 1968 NBC Comeback Special.

Entertainment

Elvis Presley ‘left the building’ on August 16, 1977 but his music keeps marching on

By Mathures Paul
Ancient cross-legged Bodhisattva schist statue image in 2nd century, Kushan dynasty from Gandhara, Pakistan

Opinion

Gandhara: A confluence of cultures

By Soumitra Das
In this video grab provided by the RU-RTR Russian television, a Russian Ural Airlines' A321 plane is seen after an emergency landing in a cornfield near Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, Russia, Aug. 15, 2019.

World

Pilots hailed as heroes after jet crash-lands

By Reuters
Features
DiCaprio’s baroque, exuberant emotionalism perfectly complements Pitt’s down-to-the-bone minimalism. They’re both terrific
Jawaharlal Nehru with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Zimikand ki tahiri (a rice dish with yams) cooked around Diwali because the goddess Lakshmi was thought to reside in this hardy tuber!
horse-racing
Comment
The chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi remarked that there was an argument to be made for including law and order in the concurrent list
Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930. The past can be a great teacher for the present. India must look back to such glorious epochs as the period of nation building by pioneering leaders — Gandhi could be one inspiration — to explore ways of reclaiming the liberties that are now under threat.
The resignation of Rahul Gandhi as president of the party has apparently thrown it into such disarray that the Congress working committee has put Sonia Gandhi back at the helm as interim president
Along with his deep examination of morality in politics, M.K Gandhi was also a master tactician. He understood better than most politicians that you should not play the game your opponents want you to or employ the tactics with which your opponents are comfortable
Relatives of victims mourn outside a government hospital after three people were beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of cattle theft, in Chapra district, Bihar, on Friday, July 19, 2019
Paramilitary personnel prepare to close off a street with barbwire in Srinagar on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Curfew was briefly eased on Friday for Muslim prayers in some parts of Srinagar, but thousands had to remain indoors with shops and most health clinics closed, and communications cut off
Put down that volume of poetry, forget the poems that yearn the freedom of the skies.
Kashmiri village women
The water crisis we face today is a manifestation of the failure of a wide array of systems that have shaped mindsets especially in the last 70 years. It is time we realize that the systems that have caused the problems cannot ‘solve’ them unless they get transformed themselves.
Residents queue to check thier names in the final draft of the NRC in Tengabasti, Assam.
The skyline of India's financial capital, Mumbai (file picture). Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant says that the current economic slowdown is a temporary outcome of economic reforms, and that the animal spirit of investors needs to be revived
Workers wait to buy bus tickets in Srinagar on Tuesday, August 6. Hit by the security lockdown in Kashmir, hundreds of poor migrant workers are fleeing back to their villages in northern and eastern India.
A boy cycles past barbed wire erected as part of security restrictions in Jammu, on Tuesday, August 6, 2019. The Lok Sabha was set to ratify a bill on Tuesday that would downgrade the governance of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir amid an indefinite security lockdown

India tempts fate in Kashmir

By The New York Times Editorial Board

It is only an interim relief for the convicts, as Maithripala Sirisena, who is likely to fight a re-election in December, looks adamant upon imposing the death penalty.
India's prominent position in the Indian Ocean offers it a link to important maritime zones including the Bay of Bengal (pictured)
Food indeed doesn't have a religion. It just has a following.
A front row seat in the Lok Sabha is no mean achievement, considering the fact that Smriti Irani has made her debut in the Lok Sabha this year

Caught in a giant traffic jam

By Deepesh Rathore

Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget outlay generates an illusion of increased spending in the sector, with an overall hike of nearly 13 per cent from last year’s allocation estimates. But a deeper probe of the data reveals a different story.

Body blows to Indian education

By Debaditya Bhattacharya

India’s leading drug manufacturers were at the heart of a maze of global deception in generic drugs, according to Katherine Eban, author of 'Bottle of Lies'
Ignatius was a remarkable character who formed a precious milestone in the history of the 16th century. In 1542 he sent his greatest son, Francis Xavier, to India. The latter worked in India for 10 years, from 1542 to 1552, called the Xaverian decade. July 31 marks the feast of St Ignatius

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When Nehru wrote to Patel regarding Kashmir

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