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GIVING MUSLIMS A HAND

In a state where it has largely been relegated to a position of irrelevancy, the Congress is trying hard to get back into contention with an extravagant nod at its old 'big tent' politics.

NAIDU'S SHIFT IN STRATEGY

The assembly ection may be more than six months away, but the political climate is already heating up in Andhra Pradesh. On October 31, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N.

BELEAGUERED IN QATAR

India had already been walking a difficult tight-rope on West Asian politics, roiled by the conflict in Gaza, when Qatar served a shocker on it on October 26: it awarded the death sentence to eight former Indian navy personnel on charges of spying for Israel.

THE AFTERSHOCKS

For Kerala and the followers of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW), an obdurate Christian sect with some 50,000 followers in India, October 29 was a black Sunday.

The Fight For-State Supremacy

The Two National Parties-congress And BJP-put Their Poll Strategies To The Test In Rajasthan, MP And Chhattisgarh In Preparation For The Grand Contest Of 2024

SETTING THE BAR HIGH

What better way to toast the season than to raise a glass to some of the finest spirits in the market

ACE OF SPACE

Where's the magic in design unless you add glory, glamour and glitter to the mix? This is a dash of this and a lot of pizzazz.

SHINE ON

Catch the symphony of romancing the stone with the steely embrace of heavy metal. Here’s to orchestrating a saga of soulful treasures.

THE TIME IS NOW

Watch out for these pulsing objects of desire that transform moments in time into memorable moments

GIZMO GAGA

Whether you are looking for gifts for the tech-obsessed or devices that will ease your everyday, these gadgets will not only make your life easier and smarter, but also a lot more stylish.

YOU GO, GIRL!

Shraddha Kapoor has been on a long break but is looking forward to Stree 2, a movie close to her heart that releases next year

OF MARRIAGE AND MORALS

Zara Raheem's The Retreat is about South Asian lives as they play out in American suburbia

Soul of the Valley

While Manav Kaul's Rooh is a fictional account of a journey through Kashmir, it's really about the writer's inner journey

Southern Sojourn

AMBORISH ROYCHOUDHURY'S SRIDEVI: THE SOUTH YEARS THROWS LIGHT ON THE ACTOR'S EARLY YEARS OF STARDOM BEFORE SHE MADE IT EVEN BIGGER IN BOLLYWOOD

MOVIES IN THE MOUNTAINS

The 12th edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival promises an impressive line-up and some key premieres

Maximum Cinema

The Mumbai Film Festival is back after a pandemic-induced hiatus

HOW THE WES WAS WON

Key grip Sanjay Sami discusses his work on some of the world's most famous films and his latest collaboration with Wes Anderson

ONE OF A KIND

Actor Mona Singh has long outgrown her iconic character from Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin and embraced the frenetic world of web serieswith Netflix's Kaala Paani being her latest

The Master Storyteller

Vidhu Vinod Chopra does not know how to mince words, and that is true of his filmmaking too

THE STRIKE ON INDIA'S ECONOMY

AN ESCALATION IN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR POSES A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY AS CRUDE PRICES AND INFLATION SPIRAL AND THE PROPOSED ECONOMIC CORRIDOR WITH EUROPE VIA WEST ASIA RUNS INTO UNCERTAINTY

R&D FACES REALITY

From a room on the ground floor of the DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi—adjacent to the imposing pile of South Block—India’s former top scientific advisor K. Vijay Raghavan is speaking to a gathering of people involved in defence research.

RETURN OF THE POWER PLAYER

WITH PAKISTAN'S ECONOMY IN TATTERS AND IMRAN KHAN IN PRISON, NAWAZ SHARIF IS BEING PRIMED FOR A DECISIVE ROLE IN THE COUNTRY'S POLITICS

STORMY PETREL IN A TEMPEST

The articulate West Bengal MP, one of the Modi government's fiercest critics, runs into a big question mark over her future

Averting A Power Disaster

Drought-hit Karnataka is now reeling under a double whammy, with a surge in energy demand owing to a weak monsoon adding to the misery already wrought by the latter.

THE GREEN MAKEOVER

The Gujarat government has its eyes set on the future of energy, it seems.

EMBARRASSING EXODUS FOR BJP

In the first week of October, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s images from the Golden Temple in Amritsar—head covered in blue scarf, hearing Gurbani kirtan and performing sewa (community service)—flashed across media.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

National friendship on the one side, local turf-sharing on the other. It seems the twain shall not meet for INDIA bloc partners Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress.

MAXIMUM TOXI-CITY

There was a time when Mumbai’s iconic seaside promenade, Marine Drive, would offer visitors such a crisp and exquisite view of the city’s skyline that on a clear day, one could almost count the skyscrapers lining the horizon.

Online Fraud A Raging Menace

Your Phone Has Now Become An Instrument In The Hands Of The Cyber Criminal To Rob You Of Your Hard-earned Money. What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

Sorry, No Wedding Bells

In a setback to India’s marriage equality movement, the Supreme Court on October 17 ruled against legalising same-sex marriages, holding that only the legislature can decide on the issue