The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Start Up initiative on Saturday, including an income tax break for new firms and a fund of Rs 10,000 crore.
2. Kolkata Police have arrested the son of a Trinamool Congress politician accused of having killed a solider in a hit-and-run case.
3. The Indian cricket team surprisingly has become the No 1 team in test cricket after five years, though this may be short lived.
Weekend Reads
1. Arun Janardhanan for the Indian Express visits a cattle shelter in Coimbatore to see what happens to bulls when jallikattu has been banned.
2. You might think dystopias exist in movies, writes Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker, unless, of course, you've been to Pakistan.
3. Rukmini S and Samarth Bansal in the Hindu have put together an interactive piece that tells you what India's most common names are.
4. Why has Sherlock Holmes and his small world been subjected to more analysis than any other literary character, asks Sandipan Deb in Mint?
5. Nilanjana Roy in the Business Standard tells us of a persuasive, slowly unsettling domestic novel called Ghachar Ghochar.
6. In Pakistan, the label "burger kid" is a loaded one writes Sana Maher in Al Jazeera.
7. How a team of conservationists made Karnataka’s forests a freely navigable haven for tigers, elephants and leopards, writes Padmaparna Ghosh in Mint.
8. Anjuli Bhargava in the Business Standard documents the pain of getting school admissions.
Reading
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‘The Fertile Earth’: An epic debut novel about how class and caste dictates whom and how to love
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Maharashtra poll result: MNS leader Amit Thackeray loses from Mahim, party fails to win single seat
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The Indian media is acting like a Hindutva ally in its coverage of the violence in Canada
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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ wins the JCB Prize for Literature
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Jharkhand election: 8 factors that helped JMM-led alliance to beat out the BJP
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Maharashtra polls: Nawab Malik loses from Mankhurd, Zeeshan Siddique loses from Bandra East
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Maharashtra’s ruling alliance heads for overwhelming victory, leads in 230 of 288 seats
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Explained: Why Kenya cancelled Adani airport development deal after US indictment
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Screen time can involve several activities and not all of them are bad
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‘A Tamilian trapped among three Punjabis’: Subhash Ghai rewinds to the ‘Taal’ soundtrack