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What's choking city drains? Bed, auto, sofas found in BMC's desilting drive

MUMBAI, May 20 -- Every monsoon, when the first lashings of rain submerges parts of the city, the civic body is censured for its laxity in desilting the nullahs. However, the nullah cleaning by the Br... Read More


New IPS cadre allocation framework delays posting of 2025 batch officers

NEW DELHI, May 20 -- The Union government's move to implement a revised cadre allocation system for All India Services has led to a delay in the allocation of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of t... Read More


Tracing Annabhau Sathe's steps in city's fading working-class memory

MUMBAI, May 20 -- The 100-minute documentary 'Footprints of Annabhau Sathe's Loknatya', which was screened last week at a theatre studio in Mumbai, chronicles a cultural movement, and the working-clas... Read More


In this edition of IPL, home advantage is a pipe dream

New Delhi, May 20 -- Delhi Capitals coach Hemang Badani did not intend to make a sweeping statement about the Indian Premier League when he said, "We play this venue (Feroz Shah Kotla) as an away venu... Read More


TMC candidate backs out from Falta repoll

Kolkata, May 20 -- Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate from Falta in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas withdrew from the contest two days ahead of polling in a major embarrassment for the pa... Read More


Clearing the air on right to bail

India, May 20 -- The Supreme Court's unusual criticism of its own judgment denying bail to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid and activist Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi rio... Read More


In defence of the rupee: Lessons from 2013 crisis

India, May 20 -- The rupee is once again under siege. The trigger this time is the Iran conflict which has sharply escalated global crude prices. Brent crude, which was trading at $72 a barrel when th... Read More


A Nordic-Indian push for a low-carbon world

India, May 20 -- The green partnerships with Sweden and Norway are among the highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five-nation tour that ends on Wednesday. The partnerships - Green Transition w... Read More


Delhi's new hierarchy of friendship in West Asia

India, May 20 -- Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi's eighth visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was short but salient. In a barely three-hour-long stay in Abu Dhabi, Modi not only embraced and clo... Read More


Build the narrative on Kalpakkam's success

India, May 20 -- India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam recently achieved criticality. Most western newsrooms filed it as a minor energy story. They missed the point entirely. I ha... Read More