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‘Silence Has a Sound’: Mitra Samal’s direct articulation in her poems ensures emotional intimacy
In poetry, silence rarely means absence. It transforms itself into a space where any meaning is either given a new dimension or completely annihilated. Silence Has a Sound is situated at the centre of this paradox. This is the second poetry collection of poems from Mitra Samal, a poet from Odisha. It is divided thematically…
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One Indian missing, 10 rescued after vessel attacked off Oman coast, says MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday said that one Indian is missing and ten have been rescued after a commercial vessel was attacked off the coast of Oman amid the war in West Asia. The vessel, GFS Galaxy, was attacked on Sunday morning, the ministry said. The vessel had been disabled by fire and…
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Factory Girls’, three young friends dream big during Northern Ireland Troubles
“Maeve was unnerved by how personally her parents took [the] murders. She didn’t feel the deaths in her teeth and bones the way her parents seemed to. She suspected it was because she’d grown up in the Troubles – neighbours shooting neighbours was just the way things had always been for her. It was the…
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EC adds section to voter enrolment form asking if applicants’ parents were part of last SIR: Report
The Election Commission has added a new section to the online version of Form 6, asking applicants whether they or their parents were part of the last special intensive revision of electoral rolls, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. The new declaration appears only in the online Form 6 available on the ECINET portal. The…
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Ladki Bahin scheme pushed Maharashtra’s women welfare budget up by about 12,700% in a year: CAG
A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General has warned that Maharashtra’s finances could come under strain because of its spending on the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, the Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The scheme, launched in June 2024, provides a monthly transfer of Rs 1,500 to women aged 21 to 65 whose families…
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ED attaches Anil Ambani group properties worth Rs 1,000 crore
The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said that it had attached additional assets worth Rs 1,021 crore in its money laundering investigation into Reliance Home Finance Limited and Reliance Commercial Finance Limited. With this, the total value of assets attached in cases involving the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group has reached Rs 20,367 crore under the Prevention…
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‘Madras Curry’: How an ‘untouchable’ food become a global dish
In the 18th century, the colonial kitchens of Madras became an unlikely meeting ground for two groups from different social worlds. Imperialism brought Europeans to Madras, many of them civil and military officials of the East India Company, soldiers, traders, sailors, lower-level bureaucrats and planters. In India, some of these Europeans were categorised as “beef-eating”…
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‘Satluj’ is mired in the same murkiness that the film seeks to expose
Around this time last week, Honey Trehan’s Satluj was trending on Zee5 as the most-viewed film. Consigned to censorship purgatory since 2022, the political drama previously titled Punjab ’95 had quietly been released on the platform on the evening of Friday, July 3. For 48 hours, a movie that the censor board had repeatedly refused…
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High Court restrains EC from conducting bye-polls in five Tamil Nadu seats
The Madras High Court on Friday restrained the Election Commission from notifying the bye-elections in five Assembly constituencies till July 31, Live Law reported. The constituencies are Tiruchirappalli (East), Ambasamudram, Perundurai, Viralimalai and Karur. The bench passed the interim order on a plea seeking that the constituencies not be declared vacant as election petitions challenging…