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Exclusive | Chinmayi interview on ‘Thug Life’ song: ‘Despite praise, I feel numb’

Exclusive | Chinmayi interview on ‘Thug Life’ song: ‘Despite praise, I feel numb’

Singer Chinmayi, who has sung for ‘Thug Life’, starring Kamal Haasan | Photo Credit: S Shivaraj Singer Chinmayi is back in the limelight. Her rendition of Tamil track ‘Mutha Mazhai’ at the recent Thug Life audio launch in Chennai is garnering a lot of praise. The interesting part is that Chinmayi has sung the Telugu

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Dharavi’s Role in BMC Battle: Redevelopment or Displacement?

Dharavi’s Role in BMC Battle: Redevelopment or Displacement?

A view of Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, in Mumbai, India, August 1, 2023. Dharavi operates as more than a slum—it functions as a hub for various small-scale industries across Mumbai. | Photo Credit: NIHARIKA KULKARNI/REUTERS Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ office announced on May 28 that the State government had accepted the Dharavi

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Operation Sindoor: CDS Anil Chauhan says India suffered initial losses in the air, declines to give details

Operation Sindoor: CDS Anil Chauhan says India suffered initial losses in the air, declines to give details

File photo of Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan. | Photo Credit: PTI India switched tactics after suffering losses in the air on the first day of conflict with Pakistan earlier this month and established a decisive advantage before the neighbours announced a ceasefire three days later, Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan said

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Vi plans another Rs20,000 cr fundraise, remains hopeful of government support

Vi plans another Rs20,000 cr fundraise, remains hopeful of government support

Vodafone Idea Ltd’s board approved raising another ₹20,000 crore through a further public offering (FPO), private placement, or other permissible mode to stay afloat, it said in an exchange filing on 30 May after reporting losses for another quarter amid never-ending financial troubles.    India’s third-largest telecom operator said it was confident of gaining government

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Europe Sees China-Russia Threat as World’s ‘Greatest Challenge’

European leaders headed to Asia this week with a key message: We need to work closer together to preserve the rules-based order against threats from China and Russia.  Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized the links between Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine and Russia’s deepening relationship with China

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I have got my freedom and party can move forward: Anbumani Ramadoss

I have got my freedom and party can move forward: Anbumani Ramadoss

PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss. | Photo Credit: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN A day after PMK founder S. Ramadoss lamented that making his son Anbumani Ramadoss a Union Minister at 35 was a mistake, the latter responded by saying: “I have got my freedom since yesterday.” Addressing a meeting of party office-bearers from Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Ranipet, and

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Bare borders: A.P. Coastal Security Police left adrift without boats or backing

Bare borders: A.P. Coastal Security Police left adrift without boats or backing

Just days before the mysterious sinking of Pakistan’s submarine PNS Ghazi off Visakhapatnam coast during the India-Pakistan War of 1971, an unusual sighting by local fishermen hinted at secrets lurking beneath the sea — secrets that would soon shape a dramatic chapter in naval history. In the early hours of December 5, 1971, fishermen heading

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025): Exploring Language, Exile, and the Power of Poetic Resistance

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025): Exploring Language, Exile, and the Power of Poetic Resistance

A Poem for Ngũgĩ by Naveen Kishore: burst into flame solitary flower immolate your petals detonating like suicide vests making pale the glitter of the stars the sky shredded raining fire scorching the earth already weary of its own blood take back the night Dear Naveen A very powerful set of images, but even more

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Universal Antivenom, Exploding Stars That Forge Gold, and a New type 5 Diabetes Crisis: Science Stories You Can’t Ignore

Universal Antivenom, Exploding Stars That Forge Gold, and a New type 5 Diabetes Crisis: Science Stories You Can’t Ignore

Tim Friede, centre, at a laboratory in South San Francisco, California., in 2023. The laboratory is using his blood to prepare an antivenom that will be effective against several snake neurotoxins at once. | Photo Credit: Centivax via AP Universal antivenom developed using blood of a man with 200 self-inflicted snakebites ANTIVENOM is currently produced

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