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Look Before You Take The Investment Leap

Take a look at other items eligible for tax deduction before considering tax saving investments.

It Runs Through...The Chambal

The BJP is on the backfoot in Gwalior-Morena, where Dalits and elite castes are both a disgruntled lot.

Many Returns Of Manto's Fool

Among the victims in Kashmir is a special category: people with mental issues, dying while wandering.

Cats' Rocked Cradles

Tiger conservation is not about numbers. Avni’s killing stresses the need for curating the big cat eco-system with greater care.

The Mizo Church Light

Every church sings its own soft part. In Mizoram, the faithful looks up to it for guidance and for free and fair polls.

Move To A Higher Gear On The Growth Expressway

Disciplined regular investing, periodic step-ups of investment amounts and performance reviews, hold the key to ample savings for your child’s future.

The Friend Zone Blahs

With ally troubles mounting, BJP needs some soul-searching ahead of general elections.

The Thing About Kohli's Bouncers

India’s pace pack—the most lethal in the world—has the ability to demolish the best batting fastnesses.

How Does Vegan-Land Really Look Like?

Not just a different menu, but an alternative way of relating to the living world—this ism is a hit.

Are The New E-Commerce Rules Consumer-Unfriendly?

New e-commerce rules could shake up the market and put consumers at disadvantage.

India: A Danse Penumbral

Leave aside the Constitution, the hardware of the State. The Republic was in reality brought into being by an elite consensus around a ‘pure’ culture, what it should have and what must be left out. And Exhibit-A is dance.

The Expired Lightness Of Being

The old grammar of aesthetics boiled things down to their essence. Expansivist Hindu ‘Kultur’ killed that delicate dance.

Women Of The Cloth And Cup

Disposable Pads Are A Hazard. A Look At Some Alternatives.

Those Folk Memes

From Baul Songs To Lavani, To Old Rites Of Passage, Red Is Positive And Life-Affirming

Seeds Of Politics In Debt-Trap Farm

Will the spate of loan write-offs help India’s heavily indebted farming communty?

No Country For Old Reserves

For these colossuses of domestic cricket the call to national duty came in dribs and drabs, naught to some. Still, the love for the game keeps these gifted hands going.

The Eternal Rebel Friend

Knowing George, who always held people and justice over politics

The Face For The Other Side Of U.P.

Priyanka Gandhi formally enters politics from home ground. First impressions from eastern UP.

BJP's Southern Discomfort

Five states. One UT. 130 seats. Crucial numbers these. PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah are driving the saffron chariot into the BJP’s last frontier.

Modi, Mamata In A Matua Matrix

BJP and Trinamool sprint to catch a largely immigrant but influential community’s vote

Centre Stage Esplanade

Mamata’s stand against the CBI’s Calcutta foray brought anti-BJP parties a platform of fire and fury

Pashmina's Purple Patch

Young entrepreneurs are flocking home to revitalise the weaves of Ladakh

The School Of Hard Knocks

India does not have a proper system to ensure education to children with disabilities

A Journalist As Breaking News!

Manipur scribe in jail for over two months. Charge is sedition, his Facebook post called CM a 'puppet'.

'Self-reliance In Major Minerals Is Our Goal'

Sunil Duggal, CEO, Hindustan Zinc, has a personal and corporate vision for his company. His personal goals include mining with maximised productivity, and zero harm through the use of technology. At one of the mines, the aim is to develop end-to-end solution for complete automation. At a corporate level, he wishes to take the company to a sustainable 1.5 mt metal and 1,000 mt silver in the near future. The country has to become self-reliant in the case of major minerals and metals through a quantum jump in the mining contribution to overall GDP, growth, and development. In terms of CSR, he hopes to create a better future for children. The corporate philosophy and vision are in sync with modern slavery acts with the fundamental belief that people everywhere deserve to live and work in safety and with dignity.

'Introduce Cobots, Or Cooperative Robots'

As the host-in-chief of INCAL 2019, Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD, National Aluminium Company (NALCO), was at the centre of all attention at the three-day global conference. He took time off his busy schedule to discuss a host of issues in the industry, including value addition, downstream, and the road ahead. Excerpts from the interview:

Explore In India To Mine In India

Although the policy framework has evolved, there are challenges related to linkages that the auction process to lease the mines has with production, exploration, technology, and land acquisition

This Is Now... Back To The Future

Robots and drones could become a large part of the workforce while artificial intelligence, 3-D simulations and 3-D printing will provide the cutting edge to new-age mining

Technology Driving Quest For Copper

Hindustan Copper is in the midst of a massive expansion drive to boost production

Manage Risk, Or Perish

New tools to manage volatility in commodities have become both cheaper and effective