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LOVE ON THE SLOW LANE

Modern Love Chennai lacks the passion that its central theme seems to demand

Luxury goes to Bollywood

In 2013, Alia Bhatt graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar India wearing Gucci from top to toe, and the headline went: \"Alia Bhatt Steps Into A New Role\". It had to be prescient, because here we are, 10 years later, with the young and talented movie star just announced as the global brand ambassador for the Italian luxury fashion label.

Skirting the issue

Fair & Lovely is now sensitive enough to be Glow & Lovely, but the bronze dancing girl of Mohenjodaro; she of the bejewelled, brazenly nude body, the thick hair and the famously insouciant hand-on-hip stance-an image any school-going Indian child can recognise in a heartbeat-has just been rendered pinky-fairer, vulgarly curvier and distinctly unlovelier by the custodians of Indian sanskaar.

Combine forces

The opposition needs to get its act and tact together

Other states have started following the Haryana model

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar came to power a few months after Narendra H Modi was elected as prime minister in 2014. Soft-spoken but resolute, Khattar powered his party to power again in 2019.

Money wise

The country is well on its way to achieve the goal of financial inclusion

Winning formula

The Modi government's bold and innovative approach to governance has set India on a path towards a brighter future

India no longer sees itself as a western-style democracy

INTERVIEW Bhupender Yadav, Union minister for environment, forest and climate change, and labour and employment

'Modi'fied India

India's journey from a dependent nation to a world leader has happened in Modi's nine years

Driving change, continuity and consistency

After nine years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is confident, capable, uplifted and empowered

POLITICAL REALTY

Hyderabad's real estate market is likely to be one of the major factors in the upcoming Telangana assembly elections

To see the light

Let there be light,\" is a well-known biblical command. Light, as in life, wisdom, goodness. Night is associated with evil, committing crimes and escaping detection in the cover of darkness. But now we have the phenomenon of \"night lights\", the extraterrestrial lie detector.

Baby steps into Indo-Pacific

India put its best foot forward in the Pacific last year. Some 600 Fijians were fitted with the -Jaipur foot that enabled them to walk.

The Big Breach

The arrest of a top DRDO scientist in a honey trapping case raises troubling questions

Crisis To Consensus

The inside story of how the Congress brokered peace between Siddaramaiah and D.K. Shivakumar

WORLD OF ITS OWN

The broadway version of The Sound of Music stays true to the original story while giving it a fresh coat

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

Fifty years later, The Exorcist remains peerless in horror

Terminal velocity

India is on a hitherto unseen airport expansion. But it just may not be enough

STRETCHING THE LIMITS

Raipur to grow bigger and better, thanks to the state government’s proposal for the greater capital region

HOW ADVANCEMENTS IN JOINT DISORDER TREATMENT PROVIDE PATIENTS BETTER MOBILITY

One of the marvels of modern medicine is to make people healthy and live longer. In India alone, the average life expectancy has increased from 36.6 years in 1947 to over 70 years currently (Welfare, 2020). However, there are certain areas that require attention. According to a study, approximately one-third of the elderly population suffers from hypertension and another one-fifth reported Arthritis. Nearly 14 per cent reported Diabetes, and 9 per cent reported chronic lung diseases.

Polls apart

With the Karnataka win, the Congress might have found a winning formula; the BJP has to reassess its own

Old and steady

Shamanur Shivashankarappa, the 92-year-old Congress leader from Davangere, is India’s oldest MLA

Caste away

Shift in Muslim votes and Vokkaligas’ desire for a chief minister from their community led to the JD(S) debacle

Double engine falters

The road ahead for the BJP after the Karnataka loss

Cease to seize

When Siddaramaiah and D.K. Shivakumar paused their battle to win the war

MMRDA: Rebooting Mumbai

Mumbai—the city that never sleeps. But behind the fast-paced lifestyle and the bustling energy is the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), working tirelessly to keep the city moving and progressing towards a better future.

Rajkumar Charles To King Charles

Now that the coronation tamasha is behind us, let us examine the mockery of monarchy in today’s aggressive social media times, and say it like it is

Modi Package Connects

The Narendra Modi-led BJP government will complete nine years on May 30. It has been close to a decade that the government has been working extremely hard to bring meaningful changes in the lives of people

I Am Not At All Tense About The Supreme Court Verdict; We Have The Majority

Eknath Shinde, chief minister, Maharashtra

Vedic vote

The Ashok Gehlot government is wooing the Hindu voter; now with the expansion of Ved Vidyalayas