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Q+A 'WRITING FULFILS ME MOST'

Actor, director, painter and author Deepti Naval has mastered almost every medium she has ever dabbled in. At 70, she now shares glimpses of her childhood in a new memoir, A Country Called Childhood

THE POLITICS OF DEMOLITIONS

IN STATES LIKE UTTAR PRADESH, MADHYA PRADESH AND DELHI, PUNITIVE ACTION BY WAY OF THE BULLDOZING OF HOUSES IS BEING TAKEN AGAINST 'CRIMINALS' AND 'MASTERMINDS' OF VIOLENT PROTESTS. COUCHED IN BUILDING LAWS AND BACKED BY STATE POLICE, HOW LEGAL ARE SUCH DEMOLITIONS?

SANGRUR SHOWDOWN GETS A RADICAL EDGE

The untimely deaths within a span of four months of two young public figures from Punjab-actor-activist Deep Sidhu and singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala-and the mammoth outpouring of emotions that followed each are likely to impact the Lok Sabha bypoll in Sangrur due on June 23.

TIME IS MONEY

LEARNING CENTRE | The value of money today is worth more than in the future because there is an opportunity cost to waiting for it

Azam, Azamgarh... The A-Z Of Troubles

Just months after mounting a challenge to Yogi Adityanath in the Uttar Pradesh election, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is himself beset by a twin challenge.

Start-Ups Slow Down, Cut Jobs

The changing post-pandemic business climate, uncertainties around the ukraine war and a global funds squeeze are forcing some Indian start-ups to sack hundreds of their staff.How long will the pain last?

Lessons From The Aryan Khan Case

The inside story of why he was freed and how the narcotic law needs to be amended to prevent persecution

THE GANGS OF PUNJAB

THE MOOSEWALA KILLING PRISES OPEN A LITTLE KNOWN BUT BUSTLING ECOSYSTEM OF ORGANISED CRIME IN PUNJAB THAT HAS LEFT ITS PUGMARKS GLOBALLY

DRAVIDIAN ROADBLOCK

Things are not looking good for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance. In fact, some utterances coming out of Tamil Nadu should count as both an embarrassment and a warning for the BJP brass.

Naveen's Temple Run

Naveen’s An ambitious programme to make Odisha’s architectural marvels more tourist-friendly is CM Naveen Patnaik’s answer to the growing saffron footprint in the state

HIDE, BUT SEEK

On April 28, India’s cybersecurity watchdog Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a set of rules—called Cyber Security Directions— which require companies offering Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to store in their servers a wide range of data on their subscribers, including names, addresses, contact numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, ownership patterns and purpose of hiring the services, for a period of five years.

LINE OF OFFENCE

The ruling BJP government at the Centre has had a week it would like to forget as it scrambled to put out the fires lit internationally in the Muslim world by the comments against the Prophet by some of its top leaders.

The Battle for Prithviraj Chauhan

The release of Samrat Prithviraj reawakens a latent conflict between the Gujjars and Rajputs over the legacy of the historical figure

ROAD TO PERDITION

In his new novel The Line of Mercy, Tarun Tejpal doesn’t just portray the grim reality of a prison, he dissects the very heart of crime and punishment

Ayush Ministry Is Going Global

Flush with funds, the Ayush ministry is brimming with ambitious plans to go global, and encourage entrepreneurship and mass production

Amit Shah - Securing The Home Front

Whether dealing with the abrogation of Article 370, shaping accords with Northeast rebels or plotting the next BJP win, Amit Shah has things sewn up

OBC Quota In MP: Count But Cap

It's a pyrrhic victory for Madhya Pradesh-the SC allows OBC quotas for local body polls, but effectively halves it

Monkeypox - Another Ill Wind

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3 Years Of Modi 2.0 - The Challenges Ahead

Undeterred by Covid, Modi 2.0 initiated radical reforms in key sectors. An assessment of the pm's accomplishments and the unfinished tasks

The Made In India Defence

The ministry and the military admirably tackled the twin blows of Covid and China, with the last giving a fillip to self-reliance in defence

Danger! Global Recession Ahead

Nirmala Sitharaman managed more crises than any other finance minister in recent times and she managed them pretty well. But she still has to contend with high inflation, low growth and fewer jobs

TRIPPING ON REFORMS

Frequent power failures during peak demand underline the need to take up major restructuring in the sector

WEAK ARM OF THE LAW

The law ministry has taken steps to improve infrastructure, appoint more judges and reduce pendency of cases. But more needs to be done

The Yasin Malik Files

Just days ago, life was normal in the narrow lanes of Maisuma in Srinagar, around the home of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik. Shops were open, traffic normal.

LOCAL GETS MORE VOCAL

Development of an indigenous 5G network and big ticket structural reforms are among India's achievements as the next wave of communications and IT revolution gathers pace

ALL BETS ON BLACK GOLD

This summer's coal crisis was met with increased production. The coal ministry is also trying to ease the functioning of private players in mining

MILES AHEAD

Even when the pandemic put nearly all economic activity on hold, one ministry continued onward, building roads and highways and generating jobs at a time when India was economically vulnerable

GET ON TO THE FAST TRACK

The new railways minister has quelled the unease among the staff and unions, and is racing to get faster, safer trains on the tracks

NOW BUILD BRAND INDIA GLOBALLY

India's single-minded focus on export growth fetched record dividends. It now needs to capitalise on the shift away from China and develop as a reliable alternative to the global value chain

SETTING SAILS TO THE WIND

The Sagarmala programme and inland waterways are the big wins. A bigger piece of the global maritime trade is next