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Mamata vows to stand by minorities

Mamata Banerjee at the media conference on Saturday.

The comments offered a glimpse into what could be her course of action as she comes to terms with the BJP’s gains in Bengal

By Devadeep Purohit

India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a parliamentary board meeting at Parliament House, in New Delhi, on May 25, 2019.

PM Narendra Modi’s minority outreach

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Modi won power, not battle of ideas

By Amartya Sen

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Smriti Irani aide shot dead in Amethi

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BJP supporters celebrate at their party office in Guwahati on Thursday, May 23, 2019.

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Recasting India as a Hindu State

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the NDA parliamentary board meeting at Parliament House, in New Delhi, on May 25, 2019.

India

Catholic Church reminds PM Modi of pledge

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Boris Johnson, Britain's former foreign secretary, outside the Cabinet Office in London, on March 19, 2019.

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Lahiripur village after Aila

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The river gives, the river takes

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Sonar Meye being staged at a theatre festival in Paris

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Theatre for social and political change

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Political betting is centred on national parties and not politicians
Bhetki Gondhoraj
The three sections of the slim novel, My Father’s Garden, are given to three men and three relationships — each with the unnamed narrator
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Newly elected MP Smriti Irani arrives at Parliament House in New Delhi on Saturday, May 25, 2019.
If there is Krishnapaksha, there must be Shuklapaksha
Virtual assistants ensure that they never lose their “submissive”, “flirtatious” tone, while “deflecting” or giving “lacklustre or apologetic” responses to insults and gendered expletives hurled at them
Payment problems
The recent report on the sabotage of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 bid for the presidency of the United States is unlikely to lead to legal action, as US president Donald Trump (pictured) is pretty well immune to legal processes
Farmers are majorly hit as they bear multiple direct and indirect costs owing to land title related issues — delays and denials of farm loans, acquisition and compensation related problems, insurance claim settlements and so on
The data on food inflation have attracted attention as it soared to a 33-month high in April 2019.
(From left) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and RLD chief Ajit Singh during their joint election campaign rally in Firozabad, on April 20, 2019.
Once in five years. You can imagine. How’s the josh? There was josh. Now it’s gosh.
Of course the temple was wrong. People occupying the streets illegally had made an illegal construction. But it made the pavement look like something else. It had sprouted like a flower in the middle of waste.
BJP supporters clash with police personnel during BJP President Amit Shah's election roadshow in Kolkata, Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Anything short of a landslide against Modi will set us on a path that is certain to remind us, when we gaze at the rear-view mirror, of James Bond’s retort in 'Casino Royale': “Do I look like I give a damn?”
BJP’s Gautam Gambhir and his wife Natasha Jain show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Old Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi, on May 12, 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally for the Lok Sabha polls, in Prayagraj, on May 9, 2019.
A 2017 report suggested that mechanical jobs in controllable environments like those of machine-operators and fast-food vendors, are potential targets for replacement by robots.
The IAAF excludes female athletes with natural testosterone levels higher than 5 nmols/lt from competing in the five athletics events from 400 metres to one mile. These are South African athlete Caster Semenya's events so it’s hard not to conclude that this policy was drafted to punish her

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