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Sometimes cinema can be closer to poetry than prose
Filmmaker Payal Kapadia opens up about her film 'All We Imagine As Light'
Winds' of change
CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES
A FICTIONAL CANVAS OF HISTORIC PAST
The novel Swallowing the Sun’ by Laxmi Murdeshwar Puri explores pre-Independence India’s societal complexities through Madhav Rao’s struggle for women’s education, Malati’s sacrifices, Gandhian ideals, and deeply entrenched patriarchy. The book masterfully intertwines love, politics, and cultural tensions within a vivid historical narrative
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UNESCO, IT ministry host stakeholder consultation on safety, ethics in AI with the underlying objective to identify strengths and growth opportunities within India's ecosystem across various sectors
Solutions beyond subsidies
The problem of stubble burning is zoorsened by delays in government interventions, incoherent agricultural practices, lack of comprehensive support for farmers, ancl insu]7icient adoption of feasible alternatives. While solutions to tlie problem exist, farmers need tlie riglit incentives to move azoay from stubble burning
Apathy Or strategy?
Manipuris deep-rooted, Iiery ethnic conflict-fuelled by apparent government inaction-is escalating amidst demands for autonomy, strained relations among communities, and tlle Centres reluctance to interoene for peace
Murray to coach Djoker in Australian Open
Recently retired Andy Murray will team up with Novak Djokovic, working with him as a coach through the Australian Open in January.
Chelsea avoid blues; Kane gets to 50-goal mark in style
Hat-trick hero fastest to reach mark in Bundesliga
Gukesh hopes to make right moves against Liren
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Distance runner Gulveer wins gold, rewrites NR
NEW DELHI: Asian Games bronze medallist Gulveer Singh on Saturday bettered his own national record in the 10,000 metres race while winning gold in the 2024 Hachioji Long Distance meet in Japan.
Wicked wicket takes Australia coach McDonald by 'surprise' on Day 2
\"The surface looked considerably dry today. It dried out fairly quickly. We thought there may have been a little bit more there. So, I suppose if you want to say that we were a little bit surprised, yeah, there wasn't as much seam movement or swing.\" – Andrew McDonald
IPL auction: Bidding war over Pant in the offing
There will be Rs 641.5 crore cumulatively in the kitty of 10 teams with 204 possible slots to be filled
Rahul, Jaiswal: Rock, star
BORDER-GAVASKAR TROPHY
Key UN committee adopts resolution paving way for first-ever treaty on crimes against humanity
The United Nation General Assembly will put it to a final vote on December 4
NATO head, Trump meet in Florida
BRUSSELS: US President-elect Donald Trump and the head of NATO have met for talks on global security, the military alliance said Saturday.
NATO, Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russia's attack with new hypersonic missile
KYIV: NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war.
Trump taps Bessent as Treasury Secy, Chavez-DeRemer as Labour Secy
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will nominate well-known international investor Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary, Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary, and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as the next Surgeon General of the U.S.
Royal tour of India in offing for King Charles, Queen Camilla: Media report
Britain's King Charles III is planning an official visit to India in the near future as part of a government charm offensive and an added boost for his health since a cancer diagnosis earlier in the year, a UK media report claimed on Saturday.
Blinken heads to G7 meeting
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leaving Saturday on a diplomatic trip to Europe that includes a meeting of foreign ministers from the leading industrialized nations that will focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Tension boils over at COP29
BAKU: At least two groups of the world's most vulnerable countries staged a walkout of the negotiation room at the UN climate conference here on Saturday expressing strong dissatisfaction with the draft agreement on climate finance for the Global South.
Pak: 37 killed in violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Alizai and Bagan tribes are targeting each other with heavy and automatic weapons in Kurram district
Israeli strikes leave 11 dead in Beirut
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
Trials, tribulations: the Hemant Soren way to CM throne
Despite hurdles, Soren has become a powerful advocate for tribal rights
AAP wins 3 out of 4 seats in Punjab by-elections
In the Punjab by-elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claimed three out of four seats, piling more misery on the Congress.
BJP wins 5 of 7 Assembly seats in Raj
JAIPUR: The BJP won five of the seven seats in the Rajasthan Assembly bypolls, the results of which were announced on Saturday.
Congress sweeps Karnataka bypolls, setback to BJP-JD(S)
The party has retained Sandur, its stronghold
Hard day for Cong, registers worst show in Maha, no respite in J'khand
ON A LOSING SPREE
AAP calls Pb bypoll wins 'semi-final' before Delhi Assembly polls
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday termed his party's win in three out of four seats in the Punjab bypolls a \"semi-final\", asserting that the party is on course for another historic mandate in Delhi.
Delhi Police challans vehicle owners of Rs 164 cr in Oct-Nov over pollution
NEW DELHI: More than 1.64 lakh challans amounting to Rs 164 crore were issued in the national Capital against vehicles lacking valid Pollution Under Control, or PUC, certificates from October 1 to November 22, according to the traffic police data.
Delhi Police constable stabbed to death in Govindpuri, 2 held
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old Delhi Police constable was stabbed to death by three people while he was on a night patrol in southeast Delhi's Govindpuri area, an officer said.