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Maha liquor sales hit by 50% duty hike

Mumbai, Aug. 17 -- Liquor sales dropped significantly in July compared to the first quarter of the 2025-26 financial year on the back of a 50% hike in excise duty in the last week of June. The hike pu... Read More


Satellites, long-range radars set to power new airspace shield

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The Sudarshan Chakra mentioned by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech is a complex combination of long-range radars, surveillance inputs from satellites, aircraft a... Read More


India's workload problem may have a simple answer

MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- For the entire 2023 season, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli didn't play a single T20I. As it was the 50-over World Cup year, India fielded a different set of players for the two limite... Read More


A darkly hilarious view of Indian society

India, Aug. 16 -- In this searing analysis of contemporary Indian society, writer Manu Joseph explores why the poor don't rise in revolt against the rich despite living in one of the most unequal regi... Read More


A fall as swift as the rise

India, Aug. 16 -- Born of an anti-corruption uprising that electrified the nation, the Aam Aadmi Party promised to clean up Indian politics and deliver governance rooted in honesty and transparency. C... Read More


Of historical erasure, identity and trilingualism

India, Aug. 16 -- This particular book is focused on one day in the life of VO Chidambaram Pillai (VOC). At the height of the Swadeshi movement, for about two years from 1906, VOC ran a shipping compa... Read More


Langdya in the school of life

India, Aug. 16 -- Shrikant Bojewar's 154-page novella is a wickedly clever satire set in a small village in Maharashtra where the intermingling of felines and humans establishes beyond a doubt the unc... Read More


'The bureaucracy in India is really quite impressive'

India, Aug. 16 -- 1In your Author's Note, you say: "There are parts of our food system that some people don't want us to see." What is the most invisibilised part of the food chain that you have photo... Read More


Reform the economy to defeat tariff threat

India, Aug. 15 -- The world is in flux, and India is being tested. But every challenge is also an opportunity. Tariffs and global headwinds should not weaken our resolve; they must galvanise us. India... Read More


Finishing prowess of Jurel, Jitesh could be India's key

Mumbai, Aug. 15 -- For the longest time, India's wicket-keeper batter used to be the first name listed on the team sheet. He would know the pulse of the changing game, play with minds of the oppositio... Read More