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The Second Wave: Crisis & Containment
As the coronavirus returns in a more infectious variant, a beleaguered nation struggles to cope with the challenges and keep up its fight
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May 03, 2021
India Today
HANUMAN'S ORIGINS - The Many Birthplaces of Hanuman
On April 21, on the occa sion of Sri Rama Navami, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), custodian of the richest Hindu shrine, unveiled “mythological, epigraphic and geographic evidence” to claim that Tirumala is the birth place of the Hindu god Hanuman.
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May 03, 2021
India Today
TIME TO REASSESS
With class 10 & 12 board examinations either cancelled or postponed, anxious students, parents and teachers look to the various education boards for a roadmap
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May 03, 2021
India Today
Grapevine Buzz
All that you needed to know about wines as well as the best wines suited for the Indian palate, climate and food.
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May 03, 2021
India Today
DREAD AND DESPAIR
Health services across states are on the verge of a breakdown. Patients are struggling to get hospital beds, Covid test reports are delayed by days and there is an acute scarcity of oxygen and vital drugs
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May 03, 2021
India Today
THE LONE WARRIOR
The Gandhi statue on Mayo Road has been one of the preferred protest sites in Kolkata for political parties and civil society groups.
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May 03, 2021
India Today
NIGHT WITHOUT END
Their mass exodus last year fol low i ng the loc kdow n opened ou r eyes to th is invisible workforce. Has their plight improved since?
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May 03, 2021
India Today
Game On
Five key trends that are likely to shape the e-gaming industry in 2021
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May 03, 2021
India Today
A SIMMERING SUMMER STANDOFF
More than two months after hundreds of Indian and Chinese soldiers, tanks and vehicles pulled back from the northern and southern banks of the Pangong Tso and the Kailash Range, an attenuated standoff looks set to continue through the summer.
4 min |
May 03, 2021
India Today
SMELLS GOOD
Big or small, soy or paraffin wax, rose or vanilla scents, candles have been a favourite for years. Now they are getting renewed attention as home fragrances. We take a look at top candle makers.
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April 26, 2021
India Today
Kitchen Qissas
Only some of the courses in this anthology of food writing satisfy the appetite
2 min |
April 26, 2021
India Today
A Better Deal For Farmers?
Faced with pressure from the Centre, Punjab is moving towards direct benefit transfer (DBT) to farmers for grain procured for the national granary this season.
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April 26, 2021
India Today
Covid-19 - The Vaccine Crisis
India’s optimistic vaccine strategy seems to have been exposed by a deadly second wave of covid. What went wrong and how to get it back on track
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April 26, 2021
India Today
WHY THE HILLS ARE BURNING
In the first week of April, India hosted US special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, in New Delhi as a precursor to the Leaders’ Summit with President Joe Biden later this month and COP-26 (the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference) in November.
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April 26, 2021
India Today
WE NEED TO FIX THE MISTAKES WE HAVE MADE. EVERY NATION MUST RAISE ITS AMBITION TO DEAL WITH THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Among the first things the Joe Biden administration did when it took charge this January was to rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement, which his predecessor Donald Trump exited in June 2017, barely six months into his term as US president. President Biden is holding a climate summit on April 22 in which he hopes to get the heads of state of key emitting nations, including India, to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate JOHN KERRY was in India last week and spoke exclusively to Group Editorial Director (Publishing) RAJ CHENGAPPA on the outcome. Excerpts:
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April 26, 2021
India Today
TIME TO SAY TATA
With Cyrus Mistry losing the legal battle against the Tatas, all eyes are now on the drama of the separation—how the SP Group will restructure its debt and how the Tatas will buy out the Mistrys’ stake
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April 26, 2021
India Today
Still on a Tightrope
For Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, the three bypolls on April 17—in Rajsamand, Sahara and Sujangarh—may be a challenge comparable in scale and complexity to the BJP-backed rebellion in July 2020 by party counterweight Sachin Pilot.
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April 26, 2021
India Today
INDIA'S NUCLEAR SHARKS
A long-delayed project nears CCS clearance even as India’s submarine force gets long in the tooth. Why the N-powered attack submarine project has taken so long
9 min |
April 26, 2021
India Today
TALES FROM THE OTHER SIDE
COVID SURVIVORS FROM WITHIN INDIA TODAY’S WORKFORCE ON FIGHTING THE VIRUS, WHAT GOT THEM THROUGH IT AND THE REALISATIONS THE DISEASE BROUGHT WITH IT
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April 26, 2021
India Today
THE RIFT RUNS DEEP IN YADAV CITADEL
Akhilesh and shivpal were there in saifai, but for the first time, the yadav first family played holi separately.
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April 26, 2021
India Today
AN EPIC RESURGENCE
THE INDIAN FILM INDUSTRY’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH HINDU MYTHOLOGY IS ON THE RISE
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April 26, 2021
India Today
RETURN OF THE NATIVE
KABIR BEDI has written a memoir he hopes will earn him the recognition and roles he was denied here in India
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April 26, 2021
India Today
BOLLYWOOD'S GREEN CARD HOLDERS
Foreigners getting a foot in the Hindi film industry door are intent on making the most of it
3 min |
April 26, 2021
India Today
Mukhtar Ansari - Time Up For The Don
Gangster-neta Mukhtar Ansari’s transfer to an Uttar Pradesh jail from Punjab is seen as a victory for the Yogi government. How will the politics play out?
8 min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
Holes In Your Facebook Wall
The latest Facebook data breach, which reportedly compromised the personal data of over 533 million users, including 6.1 million Indians, has once again focused attention on the social media behemoth’s apparent laxity in protecting the privacy of its users and, more importantly, lack of accountability towards them.
2 min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
The Leading Role
Mixing fact and fiction, Kishwar Desai’s new novel shows how Devika Rani laid the foundations of Indian cinema’s future
3 min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
JOINING HIS DOTS
A new Sayed Haider Raza biography makes sense of the abstract in him and his art
2 min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
How To Stop Covid's Second Wave
A combination of new strains, vaccine hesitancy and Covid-denial among people at large has led to a potent second surge of cases in India. We must do more than step up the vigil and ramp up the ongoing vaccination drive
10+ min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
COVERING ALL THE BASES
Mamata Banerjee is still counting on a decisive mandate even while keeping the door ajar for a post-poll alliance, if needed
8 min |
April 19, 2021
India Today
THE OTHER VIRAL FEVER
AS SHORT, FUNNY, HOMEMADE CONTENT BECOMES OUR STAPLE ONLINE DIET, ITS MAKERS ARE MAKING MOST OF THEIR NEW CELEBRITY
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