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India

Govt mulls foreign credit in sign of local weakness

The World Bank

The government is in talks with foreign lenders to provide $14.5 billion in credit to millions of small Indian firms

By Reuters

World

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon

Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on the Moon

By AP and The New York Times

Opinion

How many rivers will Bengaluru drink

By Ramachandra Guha

India

Budget riddle on cash withdrawals

By Sambit Saha

Technology

FaceApp: Terms & conditions for seeing your wrinkled self

By Furquan Ameen

Must Read
A horse at a fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Among the latest entrants in the EFI membership register is a body that organises a rural fair of horses in Sarangkheda in the rural Nandurbar district of northern Maharashtra

Opinion

Equestrian Federation: bravery or bravado?

By G. Rajaraman
Stringent laws are welcome. But the problem does not lie with legislations, old or new. It has to do with the lack of enforcement of existing legal provisions to prevent such transgressions as assaulting bona fide cattle traders or forcing minorities to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

Opinion

At last, signs of action against mob lynching

By The Editorial Board
US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on February 12, 2019, in Washington. On Wednesday, following news of Saeed’s arrest in Pakistan, Trump tweeted: 'After a ten year search, the so-called ‘mastermind’ of the Mumbai Terror attacks has been arrested in Pakistan...'

World

Hafiz Saeed reckoner for Donald Trump

By Our Special Correspondent
For Aditya Puri, the key lesson was that fintechs were not reinventing a bank, they were just riding on the platform of the banks with sophisticated apps

Books

How HDFC disrupted itself

By Tamal Bandyopadhyay, an extract from his book HDFC Bank 2.0 -- From Dawn to Digital
Narendra Modi unwittingly echoes Adolf Eichmann's fusion of conscience with political mission when he says that he is a BJP worker first, and prime minister later.

Opinion

Narendra Modi takes his role too seriously

By Valson Thampu
In his memoirs, Neruda wrote, “the loveliest things I ever collected were my seashells... Thousands of tiny undersea doors opened for me to dip into...”

Books

The sea was where the poet Pablo Neruda felt most at home

By Srimoyee Bagchi
Features
Book Cover: Visible Muslim Invisible Citizen
There are a great many impressive moments in this film, and a few that might elicit a gasp of amazement or an appreciative burst of laughter from even a jaded viewer
On the Nokia 9 PureView, each of the five cameras on the back has a 12MP sensor. The phone is priced Rs 49,999
Comment
In the crammed park, look amid the statuary, and if you are lucky you may spot a slide or swing
If the findings of the report are any indication, improved technology has increased sex-selective abortion — not an unreasonable assumption to make in a nation infamous for gender discrimination
The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, who made the shock announcement in her budget on July 5, insists that there have been extensive discussions before the government decided to push ahead with an idea that previous regimes had flirted with but never worked up the courage to take
Students in masks of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at an election rally in Calcutta in April 2019. Banerjee's government must govern responsibly, handle law and order firmly, and crack down on corruption and nepotism.
Residents line up for checking the final draft of NRC in Tengabasti, Assam. On July 30, 2018, the complete draft of the NRC was released, with the names of nearly 40 lakh people missing. On June 30 this year, an additional draft list was published with names of another 1.02 lakh excluded names.
It used to be easier to speak truth to power. But the powerful have become terribly thin-skinned, taking umbrage at the most inconsequential insults and unleashing their might on those coming up with more damning questions against authority
Indian supporters celebrate after New Zealand's Martin Guptill (foreground) was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah during the cricket World Cup semi-final match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019
We’ve ventured where we needn’t have. We’ve regularly made misadventures of ill-thought ventures
Police outside the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong a day after it was stormed by protesters. The territory’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has been under enormous pressure because of her mishandling of the situation and for championing the extradition bill earlier
An electronic voting machine (EVM). ‘Name-order effects’— the relationship between the position of a candidate’s name on the ballot and his/her electoral success — has been well-established in political science literature
The Economic Survey has claimed that data are a public commodity and, hence, people should benefit from large data sets.
The recent arrest of Rana Sanaullah, a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), sent shivers down the spine of many. He was arrested in an alleged drug bust, and could face a death sentence. Even his political rivals admit that he may be many things but he is no drug lord.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury (extreme right) campaigning for Lok Sabha Election 2019 in West Bengal. Today there is little to distinguish the Left from others.
Tuberculosis, which claims more lives than any other infectious disease in India and around the world, has a strong correlation with poverty. Some patients have even sold off their land or incurred debts to continue their treatment
Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary, at Shanti Vana in New Delhi on May 27, 2019. The Congress gained its ground from the national movement, with the majority of its supporters rooting for the charismatic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi

Lessons from Mughal history

By Prakhar Singh

Subramanian Swamy does not enjoy the prime minister’s trust

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India

Budget riddle on cash withdrawals

By Sambit Saha
World

Kyoto studio fire killed mostly women

By Eimi Yamamitsu, Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue/ NYTNS
Health
Business
Entertainment
West Bengal

Crowd test for Trinamul's July 21 rally

By TT Bureau
Calcutta

East-West load on struggling Metro

By Sanjay Mandal
Culture

Gun Island: Falling short of magic

By Bhaswati Chakravorty

How HDFC disrupted itself

By Tamal Bandyopadhyay, an extract from his book HDFC Bank 2.0 -- From Dawn to Digital

The perfect pronoun: singular ‘they’

By Farhad Manjoo / New York Times News Service

Explore the visual, sensual and gustatory power of Kochi

By Karen Anand

Asha, the police dog

By Anasuya Basu

We used to be so poor that rice was a luxury: Nalini Bera

By Prasun Chaudhuri

Preserving faith at the Dakshineshwar Kali temple

By Paromita Kar

From snow leopards to tigers, chasing the big cats

By Shashanka Nanda

From Nazis to hippies, end of the road for VW Beetle

By AP

Book review: Challenges of Governance

By TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

The sea was where the poet Pablo Neruda felt most at home

By Srimoyee Bagchi

Skimming the surface of Dalit literature

By Madhura Damle

Meat from a lab? Startups cook up alternative

By AP

The Rath of the gods

By Uddalak Mukherjee

A 134-year-old cow shelter with 6000 cows

By Manasi Shah

A dargah in Nadia maintains the syncretistic tradition

By Prasun Chaudhuri

Down under in Western Australia

By Priyanka Roy

How to socialise smartly

By Minu Budhia

Twelve great political thinkers and what’s wrong with each of them

By Manoj Kumar Panda

Cyrus Mistry takes aim at the high-flyers

By Deepali Gupta, an extract from her book Tata vs Mistry - The Battle for India’s Greatest Business Empire

A chicken pakoda recipe from the bylanes of Old Delhi

By Smita Tripathi

In cinemas now: Survival of the single-screen theatre

By Uddalak Mukherjee

A 14-year-old-bride in the Calcutta of the 1940s

By Sudeshna Banerjee

Buttery cup of joe

By Grant Walsh