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‘Factually incorrect’: Centre denies posts claiming Rajnath Singh misled Lok Sabha on Op Sindoor
The Union government on Saturday said that social media posts claiming that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that no Indian soldiers were killed during Operation Sindoor were “deliberately misleading and factually incorrect”. The defence ministry said that the social media posts “selectively quoted an isolated portion” of Singh’s speech in Parliament on July 28…
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An ex-editor writes: My name was deleted during SIR. Now police won’t clear my passport application
In March, my name was deleted from the Ballygunge constituency electoral roll in Kolkata, apparently because the Special Intensive Revision process could not trace either my name or that of my late father in the 2002 voters’ list. My father, a Gandhian, retired professor and former State Secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Kerala,…
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‘Blatant loot’: Opposition questions minister who reportedly got Rs 99-lakh subsidy for his own farm
Opposition leaders on Saturday questioned Union minister of state Bhagirath Choudhary in connection with a report that he availed a Rs 99-lakh commercial farming subsidy through a scheme under his own ministry. Choudhary, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, received a subsidy of Rs 99.6 lakh under a scheme to promote commercial…
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Eco India: How Kerala’s coastal women are mapping tidal floods
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In indie film ‘Hunter’s Moon’, a delicate dance between human want and the untamed wild
Ridham Janve’s The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (2018) explores the movement of men and their livestock in the craggy valleys of Himachal Pradesh. Janve’s feature debut explores the culture of the pastoral Gaddi community through the story of two shepherds who set out in search of a plane that has crashed in the…
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Word’s Eye View: Inside ‘General Brasstacks: The Sundarji Story’ — The General Who Transformed India’s War Doctrine
I am a bit of a military history nerd. My home library has hundreds of titles on military history (both physical and digital versions combined), ranging from academic tomes by historians, campaign histories, memoirs by generals and other officers, and biographies of military leaders. Probal Dasgupta’s General Brasstacks: The Sundarji Story is a welcome addition.…
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Book Review: ‘The Divorce’ By Freida McFadden Is A Gripping, Twist-Filled Page-Turner
A familiar formula that still works Since reading Freida McFadden’s Never Lie, I’ve come to expect a certain kind of book from her. Her stories aren’t slow or deep, instead they are fast-paced, addictive, and entertaining. Whether it’s The Housemaid, The Teacher, The Boyfriend, Ward D or The Inmate, McFadden knows how to keep her…
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Pride Month 2026: Has Queer Theatre In India Finally Moved Beyond Representation?
In the mid-1990s, when playwright Mahesh Dattani’s show On a Muggy Night in Mumbai was first staged, merely putting homosexual characters on an Indian stage was an act of courage that faced immediate institutional resistance. When Dattani adapted it into the film Mango Soufflé a few years later, cinemas flatly refused to screen it, terrified…