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The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Union government’s response on two petitions against the government’s eviction orders directing the Delhi Gymkhana Club to vacate its 27.3-acre premises, Live Law reported. The matter has been posted for further hearing on July 28. The Delhi Gymkhana Club is one of the national capital’s oldest and…

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Life in Mumbai began as usual. Kim forced herself to wake up at six in the morning to rush to her first temp job of the day at a high-end grocery store. The second was at the Indian Times office, making calls to sell advertising space using a fixed landline and an office laptop. This,…

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Hindi has been introduced in the Assam legislative Assembly as a fourth language, alongside Assamese, English and Bodo, ANI quoted Assembly Speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass as saying. “For the first time Hindi language has been introduced,” the news agency quoted him as saying. “Hindi is Rashtra Bhasha [national language], and to recognise it, we have…

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Thirteen persons have been killed in rain-related incidents in Mumbai and its surrounding regions in the past three to four days, PTI quoted Maharashtra Disaster Management Minister Girish Mahajan has having told the Legislative Council on Monday. Mahajan said that the India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert warning of heavy rainfall in the…

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Traffic on the Mumbai-Pune expressway was stopped on Monday after a landslide blocked the route. The traffic on the old Mumbai-Pune highway was also stopped because of a landslide and heavy rainfall in the Karjat-Lonavala Bhor Ghat section, said the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation. No casualties were reported. The incidents occurred amid heavy rainfall…

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The day before the Dalai Lama was due to leave China and return to Tibet in the spring of 1955, he was attending a meeting of the Steering Committee. While Lu Rau-chi, the presiding official, was in the middle of his oration, the Dalai Lama’s security officer suddenly burst into the room, rushing over to…

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The United States’ Department of Justice on Saturday told a New York court that it wanted to drop fraud charges against Adani Group chairperson Gautam Adani because the case is primarily a foreign one, difficult to establish and inconsistent with the agency’s current priorities, Reuters reported. The department also said that the US “pretending to…

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More than 22 lakh names were removed from the voter lists of four states – Odisha, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim – as the Election Commission on Sunday published draft electoral rolls as part of the special intensive revision exercise, the Deccan Herald reported. The names accounted for 6.1% of the voters in the states’ earlier…

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On the afternoon of May 4, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari stood in Kolkata to claim his victory. His party had won West Bengal in a landslide. Adhikari described this as a triumph of Hindutva. Five states and territories were counting votes that day – West Bengal, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu among them, all…

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William Shakespeare’s plays have been widely adapted across the world. Plot points, entire storylines, characters, lines, themes – deep is the Shakespeare well and numerous are those who drink from it. Few filmmakers have approached Shakespeare as thoughtfully as the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa’s three Shakespeare adaptations – Throne of Blood (based on Macbeth),…

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