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Adil: murder machine from moderate school

A tent has come up on the lawns of Adil Ahmad Dar’s home at Gundhibagh in Pulwama to receive mourners.

Ominous sign in Jaish-e-Mohammad's choice of a 19-year-old from a moderate Sufi strand

By Muzaffar Raina

India

Stranded vehicles wait for the Jammu-Srinagar national highway to open on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.

Redlines no longer sacrosanct

By Muzaffar Raina

India

Something wrong: Wife of dead CRPF trooper

By Piyush Srivastava and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

India

Panel proposes Rs 375 as minimum wage (against Rs 176 now)

By Basant Kumar Mohanty

Opinion

Small towns that shine in Partition memoirs

By T.C.A. Raghavan

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Love has nothing to do with roses and hearts, often made of plastic

Opinion

Valentine's Day: the trash of the West

By Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
Tarun Mal (left) and Rajkumar Mal, two of Haradhan’s neighbours who were also thrashed when they joined him in the protest against loud music at Kandi subdivisional hospital on Tuesday

Opinion

Noise pollution shows rot in the moral fibre

By The Editorial Board
The statue of Winston Churchill in front of the Palace of Westminster on June 24, 2016.

World

Debate rages on Churchill legacy

By Amit Roy
Residents of Santiniketan clean a part of Ratan Pally on Thursday.

West Bengal

Citizen clean-up in Tagore town

By Snehamoy Chakraborty
This undated photo issued by the Metropolitan Police shows Shamima Begum.

World

UK girl who joined IS wants to return

By Amit Roy
A painting of Tipu Sultan in battle formation

Books

Tipu's soldier: Lost in history, found in fiction

By Bhaswati Chakravorty
Features
An exhibit on Gandhi picking salt after the Dandi March
Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt in Gully Boy
Red Horses, M F Husain
Comment
Mrinal Sen’s words provided food for thought to the restless young souls of the time when both the city and the countryside were plunged in the turmoil of internal contradictions and external fears generated by growing State repression.

An aversion innocent storytelling

By Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Politicians, when they are in power, feel that they can and ought to govern and rectify everything under their control, from institutions and laws to people’s behaviour and beliefs. It is like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times who goes berserk with a spanner in his hand.
Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur composes qawwalis in Hebrew and has a large following. Shye studied in India and performs instrumental and devotional music in Hebrew, Urdu and Hindi.
The skewed sex ratio in many of India's northern states means that there is an acute shortage of eligible brides, fuelling the demand for underage girls. Child brides are also more common among segments of the population who have migrated to cities due to rural economic distress
Central Berlin: More recently, various Calcutta and Indian non-fiction and feature film-makers have been invited to show their work at the Berlinale.
Rajeev Kumar (centre) leaves from the venue of Mamata Banerjee's 'Save Constitution' sit-in in Kolkata, on February 5, 2019. Mamata ended her dharna after the apex court directed Kumar to appear before the CBI in Shillong, calling it a neutral place.

Meghalaya is the abode of neutral clouds

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee

The Taliban has only agreed to break its ties with al Qaida and the Islamic State. Violence continues unabated, especially in northern Afghanistan where confrontations between the Taliban and the government forces did not cease even during the cold months.
A herder with his cow at a cow protection centre in Pathmeda Godham, Rajasthan. Narendra Modi made cow-slaughter an election issue while campaigning in 2014, taunting the UPA government with having ushered in the ‘pink revolution’ by which he meant the trade in cattle
Indians have become used to the humongous absurdity of cow-centredness — politics, society, morality, science, economics, livelihoods and the lack of them are all focused on the innocent creature
Taking a cue from bossman Amit Shah, the BJP leadership of Bengal has announced that it will be celebrating Saraswati puja across the state
Whooooosh! Bhrooooom!! What? Was I dreaming? Who was making that terrible case against the Ladies in my dream? No, not dream. Nightmare. Must have been some Layda, some layabout lout.
Priyanka Gandhi has ended years of speculation about her entry into politics by taking the plunge
Journalists at a candle light vigil to pay tribute to slain journalists and media persons, on the occasion of Press Freedom Day on May 03, 2017 in Karachi.
Hard day's night: While making the ‘996’ proposal, the Hangzhou company told its employees that it was part of their corporate culture not to separate work from personal life
One understands the patterns of inequalities among upper castes only after assessing education and employment data and comparing theirs with that of other social groups.
Symbolism plays an important role in fostering societal transformations, and it is unlikely that the Gender Index Award would bring a message of hope to the UAE’s women or to the international community when it comes to meaningful empowerment

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Advice to emulate Rajnath gesture

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