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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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May 29, 2026
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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
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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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May 28, 2026
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SIR clears a legal hurdle
Legal validity of the exercise has been settled, but battles regarding the right to vote may continue
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May 28, 2026
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Building a governance framework for AI
The legal framework should have humans at the centre and trust, reliability and accountability as core goals
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May 28, 2026
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Weaponising privacy to curtail the right to know
Five separate public interest challenges to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act now await the attention of a five-judge bench at the Supreme Court.
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May 26, 2026
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In UP, the invocation of Dalit icons before polls
One of the most effective ways of leveraging caste in Indian politics is by appealing to community identity and pride.
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May 26, 2026
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India’s AI dreams turning into data centre reality
India’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions are taking the shape of a digital warehouse boom. While semiconductor chips, models, and computing platforms capture most of the value globally, domestic capital is chasing the lower-risk, lower-value layer of data centres.
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May 26, 2026
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The engineer of human souls in the age of AI
I have had the privilege of working with some of the world’s leading thinkers and futurists, especially Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis, who had asked me to lead the faculty at Singularity University back in 2011.
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May 26, 2026
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The meltdown in West Bengal
The Falta poll result suggests that the TMC is confronting its toughest challenge yet
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May 26, 2026
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UK navy prepares to clear mines in strait while awaiting peace deal
Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for a mine-clearing mission to Strait of Hormuz that is still in doubt.
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May 25, 2026
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Reforms are the answer to India's present crisis
Have you heard of Bhamashah, the epitome of financial renunciation for a cause? He was the treasurer (finance minister) of Mewar in 1578, when Maharana Pratap was living in the jungle after losing to the Mughals.
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May 25, 2026
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Man killed by Secret Service after opening fire near White House
A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the US Secret Service said.
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May 25, 2026
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Riding out a time of turbulence
Secretary of state Marco Rubio's visit should give a boost to India-US relations
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May 25, 2026
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Keep the doors open for talks with Pakistan
The case for the two nuclear-armed States to have a dialogue is strategic, not civilisational
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May 25, 2026
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India raises concerns over US visa, immigration policies with Rubio
India on Sunday raised its concerns over the Trump administration's recent changes in visa and immigration policies with visiting US secretary of state Marco Rubio, who acknowledged that there will be “some bumps in [the] road” as Washington puts in place a reformed and modernised immigration system.
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May 25, 2026
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Behind the transformation of power distribution sector
India’s power distribution companies (discoms), once the weakest link in the country’s electricity system, achieved a historic milestone — they recently posted a profit of ₹2,701 crore in FY 2024-25.
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May 25, 2026
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Ctrl + Alt + Deplete
Let’s admit it: We are overwhelmed. We cook, eat, pay bills. There is no collapse or disorder. Just the slow erasure of the undistracted mind
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May 24, 2026
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A new dawn
They're almost mythical creatures, salamanders. They walked among the dinosaurs. If they lose a leg, they can grow it back. Now, they are in danger. As wetlands disappear, there may be only 5,000 Himalayan salamanders left in the wild in India. ‘Protect them and we protect ourselves,’ says Subba. See how her efforts have won her the £50,000 Whitley Award
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