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A shrinking of art in our literature, films & music
My wife and I spent two nights at Ganga Kutir, the new Taj Hotel built in collaboration with the Neotia Group, two hours beyond Kolkata, where the river appears to be as wide as the ocean it is about to merge in.
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Taking the scenic route inwards
A recent road trip with an uncle yielded unexpected lessons: for the road, for life
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
RJD may pick Tejashwi as working chief today
It seems highly likely that Leader of Opposition in the Bihar assembly and son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Lalu Prasad, Tejashwi Yadav, might be elevated as the working president during the national executive meeting of the party in Patna on January 25 (today).
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
You don't just win the Ashes, you urn them
AN ICONIC RIVALRY
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Trump aide says US may cut India tariffs as Russian oil purchase dips
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Friday (local time) hinted that the additional 25% tariffs on India might be removed after its purchases of Russian oil significantly dropped, calling the trade measure a “huge success”.
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Bangladesh out of T20 World Cup, Scotland fills in as substitute team
The ICC has officially informed Bangladesh Cricket Board about replacing it with Scotland in the upcoming T20 World Cup since it refused to travel to India citing security reasons due to ouster of Mustafizur Rahaman from the IPL.
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January 25, 2026
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Making a down payment for the future of our cities
An agenda for Budget 2026 to improve the quality of life in urban India
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January 25, 2026
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Passing the taste test in the nation’s Capital
Are you the sort of person that likes eating out?
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January 25, 2026
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Calling out patriarchy in rural Rajasthan
Last month, a panchayat in Jalore, Rajasthan, announced a ban on camera phones for daughters-in-law and young women in 15 villages, effective January 26.
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Burning bright
See India's tigers as you've never seen them before, in 800 images by over 100 people. A photobook, worked on by the legendary conservationist Valmik Thapar even in his final days, and now released by his co-author Kairav Engineer, celebrates the national park Thapar helped shape at Ranthambore. 'It is structured like a series of safaris, surprises at every turn,' Engineer says
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
J'KHAND, JINDAL GROUP IN TALKS FOR STEEL TIE-UP
The representatives of the Naveen Jindal Group met chief minister Hemant Soren on Saturday in London and held a detailed discussion on potential investments in the steel industry, clean energy and power infrastructure in the state, officials said.
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January 25, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
FSL submits report to SIT, minister talks of CBI probe
The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) of Bihar police on Saturday submitted its biological report to the SIT in a sealed envelope while the laboratory asked SIT to produce the girl's parents to collect their blood sample for the DNA test.
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January 25, 2026
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‘A book like this sucks you in’
On translating Mahatma Gandhi's grand-nephew’s memoir, Jivannu Parodh, from the original Gujarati
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January 24, 2026
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‘It is not the job of writing to be ethical; its job is to be true’
At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Richard Flanagan, the only writer in the world to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, talks about what stories mean to us
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
My heart, your deadline
‘90s rom-coms sold us The Pact: If you and your bestie are both single by a set age, you will get married. IRL, settling for a friend is such a bad idea
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January 24, 2026
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In Noida, reminder of the sinking state of humanity
Death shouldn't be a mere number.
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Bastar: a traveller’s tale
In the introduction to Landscapes of Wilderness, the author Narendra confesses that his book is “not a formal sociological work” and is “more like a traveller's tale”.
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Wait, is this Kolkata?
Kolkata’s food scene has got range. You can dig into 1947-era Lucknow biryani, contemporary food at cafés, and North-Eastern cuisine at top hotels
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Govt may budget ₹9,800 crore for MDF
The government is set to operationalise the ₹25,000 crore Maritime Development Fund (MDF) by allocating ₹9,800 crore to it in the upcoming budget.
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The national anthem before our national anthem was adopted
The British struggled to give India a universally acceptable national anthem, given the country’s rich diversity of language, music and sensibilities. The freedom movement and independent India faced no such challenge
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January 24, 2026
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You don't want to hear this, but....
Wes Anderson films are (gasp) lowkey boring. Candles are not self-care. Even radical art is pretending. Andaz Apna Apna is unwatchable. We're airing the most unhinged opinions of our time. Consider this your trigger warning
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January 24, 2026
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Social media ban alone won't work
Protecting children online calls for a range of measures, including improving parental awareness to monitor risky behaviour
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Juspay raises $50 million from WestBridge, enters unicorn club
Bengaluru-based payments infrastructure firm Juspay has raised $50 million in a Series D follow-on round from WestBridge Capital.
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January 24, 2026
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How India can become a deep-tech powerhouse
India granted over 100,000 patents last year —a big surge compared to pre-pandemic data.
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January 24, 2026
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'Palaash was caught red-handed at wedding and beaten by female cricketers'
Actor-producer Vidnyan Mane has made allegations that appear to confirm what many had feared, that singer-composer Palaash Muchhal allegedly cheated on Indian cricketer Smriti Mandhana.
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January 24, 2026
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Kumar Sanu gets gag order against ex-wife; thanks HC
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted ad-interim relief to singer Kumar Sanu in his ₹50 crore defamation suit against his ex-wife, Rita Bhattacharya, filed in December 2025.
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January 24, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Play it again, Simran
DDLJ is so epic, they just put up a statue of Raj and Simran in London. Think you know every bit of it? Here are 10 Easter eggs you probably never noticed
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January 24, 2026
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APPLE URGES INDIAN COURT TO BLOCK CCI PROBE
Apple has asked an Indian court to stop the country’s antitrust watchdog from seeking its global financial records as part of an investigation into its app store policies, while it challenges the underlying law's validity, court papers show.
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January 23, 2026
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How to make the most of a trade deal with EU
India and the EU look set to conclude negotiations on a long-pending Free Trade Agreement (FTA), with both sides politically aligned on the need for it.
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January 23, 2026
Hindustan Times Ranchi
IndiGo working out compensation payouts
India’s aviation regulator told the Delhi high court on Thursday that it had issued warnings to IndiGo’s senior executives, including the chief operating officer and director, and ordered the dismissal of a senior vice-president from service for operational disruptions that left passengers stranded at airports nationwide.
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