Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. More than 104 Indians were killed in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, after a pile of urea and other chemicals detonated.
2. Indian and Chinese troops had a stand-off along the Line of Actual Control, after the Chinese built a hut that has since been demolished by Indians.
3. Leander Paes and Martina Hingis have won yet another trophy, taking home the US Open Mixed Doubles title.
Weekend Reads
1. Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express points out how silly meat bans are, since they don't even spread the cause of vegetarianism, and explains how the Bharatiya Janta Party is using a minority community to defend a majoritarian move.
2. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is floundering, writes Aditi Phadnis in the Business Standard, listing out all that's gone wrong in the state recently.
3. No matter what they say, you can't take the guns and gangs out of Bihar elections, reports Shantanu Nandan Sharma in the ET Sunday Magazine.
4. Hamza Khan in the Indian Express meets the people responsible for running Mughalsarai, the station on India's busiest railway route.
5. From the hyper-dramatic sazaaye maut to the quiet bickering of Shahid,, the way courtroom scenes have evolved tell us plenty about today's Bollywood, writes Jai Arjun Singh in Mint Lounge
6. Shekhar Gupta's column moves over to the Business Standard, where he begins his first National Interest by pointing out how India's political leaders have no one to tell them they are wrong.
7. Sunny Leone and Radhe Maa unsettle our expectations of what sex and sexuality mean, writes Dharminder Kumar in Blink.
8. Amy Harmon in the New York Times follows the story of a 23-year-old who, before she died of cancer, chose to have her brain preserved in the hopes of one day being revived.
9. Come meet the Pakistani press prince of Kiev, Ukraine, as introduced by Tunku Varadarajan in Politico.
10. Labour's new leader Jeremy Corbyn has won Beard of the Year four times, writes Brian Wheeler on the BBC site in a profile that tells you all you need to know.
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1. More than 104 Indians were killed in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, after a pile of urea and other chemicals detonated.
2. Indian and Chinese troops had a stand-off along the Line of Actual Control, after the Chinese built a hut that has since been demolished by Indians.
3. Leander Paes and Martina Hingis have won yet another trophy, taking home the US Open Mixed Doubles title.
Weekend Reads
1. Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express points out how silly meat bans are, since they don't even spread the cause of vegetarianism, and explains how the Bharatiya Janta Party is using a minority community to defend a majoritarian move.
2. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is floundering, writes Aditi Phadnis in the Business Standard, listing out all that's gone wrong in the state recently.
3. No matter what they say, you can't take the guns and gangs out of Bihar elections, reports Shantanu Nandan Sharma in the ET Sunday Magazine.
4. Hamza Khan in the Indian Express meets the people responsible for running Mughalsarai, the station on India's busiest railway route.
5. From the hyper-dramatic sazaaye maut to the quiet bickering of Shahid,, the way courtroom scenes have evolved tell us plenty about today's Bollywood, writes Jai Arjun Singh in Mint Lounge
6. Shekhar Gupta's column moves over to the Business Standard, where he begins his first National Interest by pointing out how India's political leaders have no one to tell them they are wrong.
7. Sunny Leone and Radhe Maa unsettle our expectations of what sex and sexuality mean, writes Dharminder Kumar in Blink.
8. Amy Harmon in the New York Times follows the story of a 23-year-old who, before she died of cancer, chose to have her brain preserved in the hopes of one day being revived.
9. Come meet the Pakistani press prince of Kiev, Ukraine, as introduced by Tunku Varadarajan in Politico.
10. Labour's new leader Jeremy Corbyn has won Beard of the Year four times, writes Brian Wheeler on the BBC site in a profile that tells you all you need to know.
