A view of a polluted bank of the Yamuna river with toxic foam floating on it, at the Kalindi Kunj ghat in Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI With the Delhi government preparing for a new Chief Minister and Council of Ministers, two schemes which are on top priority are the BJP’s poll promises of ₹2,500 per
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“Yeh BJP toh bas humari jhuggi ko hattayegi. Humme iss baat ka darr toh hai.” (The BJP will remove our jhuggis. We are scared about this.), says Leela, a dhobi who has lived in Lodhi Colony for 45 years. “Modi has himself said that there will be no jhuggi in Delhi. The people who come
The board of 63 Moons Technologies Ltd., the parent of defunct National Spot Exchange Ltd. (NSEL), has approved a one-time settlement even as differences among investors seeking to recoup their money for more than a decade cloud the outcome. “The Board of Directors in its meeting of 18 February approved the participation and support of
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Dear reader, Let me tell you about trauma. The final lines of Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, an agonisingly beautiful work that I revisit at regular intervals, include this seemingly embarrassing, self-flagellating line: “It was not a story to pass on.” Beloved, as you probably know, is a disturbing thesis on memory, trauma, and the struggle to reconcile
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Hindi ‘imposition’ row: The war of words between Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre over the alleged imposition of Hindi language refuses to die down. On Wednesday, Chief Minister MK Stalin shared a poem by 20th-century Tamil poet Bharathidasan (1891-1964) linked to the
Rishiraj Kulkarni comes across more as a mystic than a musician. His words are measured, his thoughts seem to stem from a place deeper than mere intellect. His journey, too, has been shaped by some of the most profound human minds. As a child, he studied at the Sahyadri School, founded by the Krishnamurti Foundation
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has rejected reports of cracks between the three parties in the ruling Mahayuti alliance. The Shiv Sena chief asserted that the coalition of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was focused on the development of Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra.
Junior doctors raise slogans during a torch rally towards the CBI office in protest against the alleged rape and murder of a woman medic at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata, on October 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: On January 22, two separate murder convictions resulted in
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In the face of looming revenue decline from blood cancer medication Revlimid, Indian pharma companies Natco Pharma and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories are shifting their focus to a promising new frontier: a weight loss drug modelled after Ozempic. This strategic pivot aims to stabilise their growth and set them on a path toward recovery in an
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What is originality? Is there even such a thing? Or is all of art a series of new brushstrokes over an already existing painting? Is it the absence of influence or is it the courage to twist tradition into something unrecognisable? Every artist builds upon what came before them. But some do more than inherit.
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