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Boy killed by friends for refusing to demand ransom from his family

MEERUT, May 10 -- A 13-year-old boy was killed in Husainpur Kala village of Bijnor, allegedly by a group of his five friends after he refused to make a ransom call to his family. The accused, all mino... Read More


Man kills brother for Rs 95 lakh insurance payouts

Meerut, May 10 -- In another case of a murder carried out to commit an insurance fraud in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, police have arrested two men for the brutal killing of one Sanjay Gupta last June, po... Read More


Of eternal virgins and Gobi Manchurian

India, May 10 -- Writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq's short-story collection Heart Lamp, masterfully translated by Deepa Bhasthi from Kannada into English, brings together 12 stories set in Musl... Read More


An ode to India's temple culture

India, May 10 -- Deepa Mandlik's Dynasties of Devotion, originally written in Marathi, examines historical contexts and myths associated with seven ancient temples across India and Cambodia. At the Ka... Read More


The journal of an iconic american writer

India, May 10 -- In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had ''a rough few years''. She described the sessions in a journal that she... Read More


Stories as windows into the past

India, May 10 -- Kunju Namboodiri wishes to marry a second time, but fate has other plans. A man visits the mythical city of Dwaraka in the first Malayalam fantasy tale. An abandoned infant is raised ... Read More


'Everyone has to own their identity'

India, May 10 -- 1An art fair where you couldn't find a single work by women artists inspired you to create an Instagram page to showcase art by women, and enabled you to write The Story of Art Withou... Read More


To choose one's own way

India, May 10 -- Embracing Hope claims to reveal "how to turn tragedy into triumph and lead a fulfilled, purposeful life." For a fraught time such as this, with pandemics, raging wild fires and full-b... Read More


Behind the birth of Pakistan

India, May 10 -- Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir, in a recent speech, invoked the two-nation theory that underpinned the movement for the creation of Pakistan as a Islamic State - as a "second ... Read More


Lucknow to have UP's 3rd pro football set up at Ekana

LUCKNOW, May 10 -- It's official now that state capital is going to have Uttar Pradesh's third professional football set up after Inter Kashi in Varanasi and Ghaziabad Football Club at Ghaziabad as th... Read More