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India

Shah replaces Advani in fort

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah during the BJP Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday

The BJP announced its first list of 184 candidates across 20 states

By J.P. Yadav

India

In the 2018 report, the country had ranked 133rd in the world

India unhappier than before

By Reuters and PTI

India

J&K cop sees threat to life

By Muzaffar Raina

Health

Doctors in India slip on quit-tobacco advice

By G.S. Mudur

Opinion

The BJP government's disdainful frankness

By The Editorial Board

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Women, especially those working in precarious informal sectors, are at the sharp end of a job crisis in India.

India

10 million jobs lost in a year, women bear the brunt

By Reuters
The announcement of the release of the film 'PM Narendra Modi' got some people very hot under the collar

Opinion

What the election code of conduct is about

By Swapan Dasgupta
A police official can be held directly accountable for illegally confining a person, and can be punished with imprisonment of seven years if it is proved that he or she acted maliciously while confining that person

Opinion

Police immunity can hurt civil liberties

By Mustafa Haji
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

World

EU fines Google $1.7 billion for abusing ad rules

By AP
James Webb Telescope illuminated at night.

Science

The men behind the Nobel Prize winners

By New York Times News Service
Catherine David speaks at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Tuesday.

Arts

Modern India traced

By Anasuya Basu
Features
Chicken pattice, a classic Parsi appetizer
Sanya Malhotra
Kristian and Hila Aadnevik
Comment
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has prepared draft labelling regulations for packaged food that will soon be released for public appraisal.
Windmills in the Thar desert. India has the world’s fifth-largest renewable energy installed capacity of 70 gigawatts, comprising 22 GW of solar and 35 GW of wind energy. Total capacity is expected to increase to 140 GW by 2023, putting the total capital cost at more than $100 billion.

Strategies for renewable energy

By Arsalan Ali Farooquee and Upendra Bhatt

The Supreme Court has stayed the conviction and contempt proceedings against the editor of the Shillong Times, Patricia Mukhim.
Amit Shah: Pure focus
A few regulars of a certain vintage get together for longish bouts of 'adda', once in the morning, and once after office.
A discussion organised by the SOAS Indian Society, titled ‘Violence and Dissent in Modi’s India’, held in London in February 2019

Why Indian diaspora voices matter at home

By Adrija Dey, Chandni Chawla and Siddharth Chakravarty

Do you remember that last chun aao? Do you remember how you went about the last chun aao? You cannot not remember.
US Democratic representative Ilhan Omar might not have expected a strong backlash condemning her for her alleged anti-Semitism, but she might not have anticipated the stronger wave of support in her favour either

The changing fortunes of Israel

By Karthick Ram Manoharan

Official figures may show the current US unemployment rate at a mere 4%, but there has been a notable decline in the ratio of labour-force to population in the US since the crisis of 2008, owing to the ‘discouraged worker effect’ arising from meagre employment opportunities.
Mohammad Ali Bogra, the Pakistani premier, along with his second wife, on their arrival in Delhi from Karachi being received by Jawarhalal Nehru at Palam Airport in May 1955.
Traffic congestion at the S.N. Banerjee Road crossing, one of Calcutta's busiest intersections
A passenger was offloaded at Chennai airport last week after he happened to retort, in view of the extra vigil: “Am I carrying a bomb in my bag?”

Renewed clamour for more travel curbs

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee

The Supreme Court has recognized and reiterated the constitutional right to a clean environment
BJP MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel (right) after meeting the party's state unit president Mahendra Nath Pandey in Lucknow on Thursday, March 7. Baghel had come to blows with party MP Sharad Tripathi in a meeting in Sant Kabirnagar on Wednesday.
Schoolteachers are required to observe a rigorous code of conduct not only because they have the onerous task of shaping young minds, but also for their own protection
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Congress keeps nose to the grindstone

By Sanjay K. Jha
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Why sleeping beauties lie

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Lake turns into stage for contemporary theatre

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Peek into history through textile restoration

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