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India

Unreported epicentre of anger

Kashmiris wait outside a police station in Srinagar on Tuesday for information on their relatives detained during night raids.

Still a no-go zone for security forces, Soura in Srinagar emerges as a barometer

By Zeba Siddiqui and Fayaz Bukhari/ Reuters

India

P Chidambaram.

Chidambaram's plea to be brought before Chief Justice

By The Telegraph and PTI

Opinion

Wobbly economy: Patience is finally wearing thin

By The Editorial Board

World

Permission cloud on UK Ambedkar Museum

By Amit Roy

India

NIA officers shifted after bribe charge

By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

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Shehla Rashid Shora

India

Uphold our dignity: Shehla Rashid Shora

By Pheroze L. Vincent
Climate change stems from an excessively consumerist lifestyle

Opinion

Planting trees can't stop climate change

By Jaydev Jana
Differently-abled people protest for their rights in Guwahati.

North East

4% reservation for disabled in Assam

By A Staff Reporter
In Prasoon Joshi's letter defending the Narendra Modi regime, what was a left/right, secular/communal divide is now embedded in a national-antinational opposition, turning dissent, opposition, terror and critique into questionable activities

Opinion

Confusing a majoritarian world and uniformity

By Shiv Visvanathan
Protesters focus the laser pointers to a newspaper as they try to burn it, during a rally to demonstrate against the arrests of people caught in possession of laser pointers that police classified as offensive weapons because of their ability to harm the eyes in Hong Kong.

World

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By Kate Conger/New York Times News Service
Khayyam

Entertainment

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Prambanan, an ancient 9th century Hindu temple is a UNESCO World Heritage site

Travel

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Features
Restaurant aggregator or reservation apps like DineOut, Zomato, Easy Diner etc that have allegedly been playing on discounting are now the subject of ire and protest by restaurants that have been losing money
It has been a slow but sure journey and Akshay has reached where none of his contemporaries have
Jawaharlal Nehru with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
horse-racing
Comment
Iraqi children gather around a US soldier in Al Asiriyah, Iraq, in 2008. What breaks down the dubious narrative of the oppressor occupying the moral high ground, leading to the eventual failure of the occupation, is that violence perpetrated in the name of liberty is usually disproportionate
Protesters hold candles and signs during a rally denouncing Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and demanding an end to the General Security of Military Information Agreement, a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, in Seoul on Thursday, August 15, 2019
Working presidents of the Delhi unit of the Congress party salute the national flag on August 15, 2019
It’s a pity that Smith is (or was) a cheat, but Test cricket’s public (including the idiots who ritually boo him) is lucky to be able to watch him in his pomp
Crow, crow, crow your throat / Hoarsely down the stream / Horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly / Life is but a scream
Waves of ignorance have submerged sensible political life. It is a brave new world in which the prime minister insists, even to a gathering of doctors, that Ganesha’s elephant head was a result of plastic surgery
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets school children in New Delhi on Independence Day
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
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
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

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