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Jayasree Kalathil, Mini Chandran, Murali Ranganathan, Shefali Jha win NIF Translation Fellowships
The New India Foundation has announced Jayasree Kalathil, Mini Chandran, Murali Ranganathan, and Shefali Jha as the recipients of its 2026 Translation Fellowships. The translators represent Malayalam, Hindi, and Urdu languages, respectively. Each fellow will receive a six-month grant of Rs 6 lakhs. The fellowship is awarded to translate a nonfiction work originally written in…
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Bengal: 3 held for minor’s rape and murder in Baruipur, BJP leader detained for helping suspect flee
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl in Baruipur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, The Hindu reported on Tuesday. A local Bharatiya Janata Party functionary has also been detained on allegations of helping one of the suspects temporarily escape, The Telegraph reported. On…
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How Japanese military officers freely scouted colonial India without raising British suspicion
While travelling aboard a “little coasting steamer” from Colombo to Tuticorin in 1908, Count Hans von Königsmarck met a Japanese army officer who was undertaking his own voyage of discovery across India. The officer, whom von Königsmarck referred to only as Mr Kaito, apparently intended to study the subcontinent systematically and thoroughly. In his book…
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Centre forms panel to examine ‘Satluj’ film after takedown: Report
On Monday, the Union government constituted a high-level inter-departmental committee to examine the film Satluj’s content, a day after directing streaming platform ZEE5 to take it down, the Hindustan Times reported. The film depicts extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances by the Punjab Police in the 1990s. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s order was issued…
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Umar Khalid book excerpt: Exploring the history of Singhbhum’s tribal societies in British India
Over the last decade and a half, as vast parts of the Adivasi hinterland have been embroiled in a civil war between the Maoists and the security forces of the state, these tropes of difference have neatly coalesced with another related theme. In several writings that emerged in response to the initiation of military operations…
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Ayodhya Ram temple trust treasurer claims he had no role in collecting daily donations
The treasurer of the trust that manages the Ram temple at Ayodhya on Sunday claimed that he had no role in the daily donations collection process there, PTI reported. Govind Dev Giri, the treasurer of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, made the assertion in the context of allegations about the embezzlement of donations…
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Literature review, summaries, data analysis: What are the limits of AI use in academic research?
In February, sections of the media reported that the University Grants Commission had returned several PhD theses submitted to the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarnagar. The commission found that around 40% of the theses had been written using artificial intelligence. The university was instructed to ask the researchers to rewrite and resubmit their…