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Hindustan Times Patna
Infosys sees oldest workforce in 15 years
Almost half of Infosys Ltd’s 320,000 employees are now over 30 years old, the highest in the last 15 years, underscoring the challenges faced by the country’s second-largest IT services firm as more young people explore careers beyond the IT sector.
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
MINE COLLAPSES IN CHINA, KILLING 5 JUST DAYS AFTER SHANXI DISASTER
A mine shaft collapse during an illegal mining operation in China’s southwestern Yunnan province killed five people and injured one, state media reported, days after the country’s deadliest mining accident since 2009 left at least 82 dead.
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
India’s cities need periodic assessments of resilience
India’s urban centres already account for the majority of its economic output and are projected to generate more than 70% of new employment opportunities by 2030.
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
CENTRE SLASHES WINDFALL LEVY ON FUEL EXPORTS
The government has halved windfall gains tax on export of petrol to ₹1.50 litre, while reducing the levy on diesel to ₹13.50/litre and aviation turbine fuel to ₹9.50/litre effective June 1.
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
What India must do as climate crisis worsens
New Delhi must look at China and other countries that have used natural and modern scientific interventions and inventions to control the adverse effects of natural extremes
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Larger message in NFHS numbers
To build on the successes achieved so far, the State and markets must work as complements
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
In the age of AI, a kill that requires no killer
In certain special forces operations, like a commando raid, a small team moves ahead of everyone else.
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June 01, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
GT Express: Journeys in character building
There are many ways to build character in life.
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
A running start
India’s newest sprinting times would have sent at least one male runner into the semi-finals at the last Olympics. That’s a big shift. It would be a first. What else is next?
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
India’s fight against dowry must continue
The recent deaths of several young women under suspicious circumstances in the homes of their in-laws, seemingly motivated by dowry demands, show that despite stringent laws, awareness campaigns, women’s empowerment and education, the needle has not moved very much on eliminating this menace.
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Watt's the catch: The carbon cost of comfort
Anyone who can afford air-conditioning is now going to want it. Many who can’t will try to scrape together the means for at least a few days or weeks of cooling a year.
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Exit Wounds
Her books tend to be about family — the many ways in which it can become twisted, and twist those it contains; the ways in which it can all work out in the end. Her novels have won the Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award. Her newest, Whistler, out on June 2, begins with a 53-year-old running into her stepfather, a man her mother was married to for about a year, 44 years later. It unfurls from there, in a story about how small yet consequential moments, a single person or a particular day, can define our lives
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
In Britain, the widening gap between the PM and people
Keir Starmer has failed to understand that his country feels broken even if it actually isn’t. This disconnect has led to a fragmentation of British polity
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
The discreet charm of Gymkhana Club
Amongst the happiest memories of my childhood is devouring fish fingers and chicken sandwiches at the Gymkhana Club.
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May 31, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Of roads not taken
The Indian Caliphate by Imran Mulla presents the idea that early-20th-century Hyderabad could have emerged as a centre of Muslim political leadership
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May 30, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Family dysfunction and the state of the nation
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, but when a writer connects a character's inner life with broader social forces that mirror it, a single house can reveal an entire country.
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May 30, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
For your daily grind
Weekend chefs, put away your bulky appliances. Reach for smaller, simpler tools from across India. They're for slow, chill cooking; no secret ingredient needed, really
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May 30, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Bleep and you'll miss it
Your favourite show has arrived in India — just not all of it. As streamers censor scenes and mute punchlines, fans fill in the blanks online
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May 30, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
That Burgundy night
A legendary wine, a charity dinner, three Mumbai chefs at the top of their game, who collaborate more than they compete. Of course, it would be epic
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May 30, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
New vision of stability guiding relationship
The smiles that could be seen when United States President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 for a state visit were again on display hours later when he met with President Xi Jinping.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Tata Motors PV seeks to undo hatchback neglect
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd believes India’s hatchback market did not collapse because buyers abandoned small cars, but because carmakers abandoned small-car buyers by starving the vehicles of refreshes, new technologies, and premium features.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Development at its peak
Visitors are drawn not only by karst formations but also a vast number of attractions.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Threading the past forward
Pasang Dekyi, born into a family of artisans and thus an inheritor of Xizang embroidery, has dedicated herself to sustaining this 600-year-old intangible cultural heritage by weaving tradition into contemporary life.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Hydrogen set to be key part of green transition
Sector being cultivated as crucial catalyst in nation's pursuit of ecological civilisation.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
The Congress’s limited win
The party managed the Karnataka CM transition well. But DK Shivakumar begins his stint with Siddaramaiah looming large over state politics
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Citizen scientists map national avian landscape
Long before the first commuters hit the streets of many large Chinese cities, small teams of three to four people move silently through their outskirts.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Ghost of retrospective amendments in tax law
If time travel once belonged to the realm of Marvel Avengers films, Indian tax law experimented with it (the Finance Act 2012) to overcome the Supreme Court's 2012 Vodafone order.
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May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
Shift in the economy: Goldilocks to Cinderella
The Indian economy in FY26 was termed a Goldilocks economy (borrowing from the popular fairytale), a bit of a cliché.
3 min |
May 29, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
A colonial ghost that haunts Jan Vishwas
The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026 is a landmark legislation.
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May 28, 2026
Hindustan Times Patna
What the Nordic media got wrong about India
The embedded symbolism of Swedish fighter jets escorting Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s plane for landing at Gothenburg on May 17 was hard to miss.
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