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Light comes alive

Fireflies took Mumbai girl Aishwarya Sridhar to the podium in the 56th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

Labour pains

Severe unemployment and anti-incumbency could dampen Nitish Kumar’s bid for another term in Bihar

Cashbacks Are Not Sustainable

Rahul Chari, cofounder and chief technology officer of the company, talks about the opportunities, challenges and intense competition in the segment and what the future holds for the digital payment platforms.

Bihar Elections - Brash Tejashwi Woos Youth

While Nitish Kumar & Co are confident of retaining power, an assertive Tejashwi Yadav is causing some concern

Katie Comes To Party

A professor-politician mom with a lethal whiteboard looks like a future president

The Great American Election Heist

Donald Trump discredits mail-in votes, undermines the postal service, encourages far-right hooligans, fast tracks his nominee’s supreme court confirmation, ignores Covid protocols to hold raucous rallies and remains reluctant to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power. Democrats fear the president plans to unleash mayhem to stay on in the White House even if he loses the November 3 election

Too many cooks

A clutch of agencies is investigating the Hathras case, but there is no assurance of speedy delivery of justice

Personal purposes

The bypolls are about Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s popularity, Jyotiraditya Scindia’s prestige and Kamal Nath’s survival

MASTER OF SUBTLETIES

How a quiet, understated Vikrant Massey owns every character he plays

Knight now, king next

Even as he waits to seal his berth in the national side, KKR opener Shubman Gill is being groomed for a bigger role

Roots of rancour

The alleged highhandedness of the BJP top brass is driving many saffron workers to the Trinamool Congress

It is NDA's money power against the Grand Alliance's people power

It is NDA’s money power against the Grand Alliance’s people power

Modi Builds Muscle

Realising Atmanirbhar Bharat calls for boosting government spending, attracting investments, supporting entrepreneurs, and resolving short-term difficulties to ensure long-term rewards. So how well has the government begun?

THE BEAUTIFIED GAME

Football gaming giant FIFA is back, with fancy footwork and spectacular goals

SONNETS OF HOPE

C IS FOR CAT, D IS FOR DEPRESSION By Kairavi Bharat Ram

LIFE AS TRESPASS

THE BRASS NOTEBOOK: A MEMOIR By DEVAKI JAIN

Lost sheen of the IFS

On October 9, the Indian Foreign Service entered the 75th year of its existence.

Problem peaks

For saving his salary, an adviser-level officer in the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change is bearing the entire weight of the Western Ghats, with its 77 high peaks, more than one lakh square kilometres and valleys.

People are investing in a new ‘workstyle' in this new world

VERY INFORMED PERSON Devita Saraf chairman & CEO, Vu Group

Supreme showdown

By accusing Justice N.V. Ramana of abetting corruption and hindering administration, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy launches an all-out war against the second senior-most judge of the apex court

Unfriendly fire

Ordnance factories say the Army’s complaint against the quality of their ammunition is a ploy to promote privatisation

THE SHOW GOES ON

In a year-long project, former cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi travelled across 11 states to document 525 single-screen cinemas

Barking news

India’s television news is in meltdown. Channels are fighting among themselves.

Battleground ready

With a major reshuffle in alliances and the emergence of a new set of leaders, the political equations in Bihar are changing

Antivirus programme

The Gujarati entrepreneurial spirit makes many an opportunity out of the pandemic

Hunting Dirty Money

With fewer jurisdictional constraints and a wider functional ambit, the Enforcement Directorate has surpassed the CBI as India’s most prominent investigating agency

TIGHTROPE WALK

Even as Rambo Circus launched its first digital show, most circus companies in India are reluctant to go online despite taking multiple hits

‘Desi'ding factor

In the run-up to the US elections, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are pulling out all stops to woo the Indian-American community

Strategic value

With its entry into the DCOC, India gets a toehold in China’s glowing pearl, Djibouti

We fight only to win; will win all bypoll seats

THE DATE FOR THE BYPOLLS to 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh—November 3—was announced just a week ago, but Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been in campaign mode ever since he began his fourth term in office this March.