‘Mission Raniganj’ trailer: Akshay Kumar stars in film about a mine rescue mission
Tinu Suresh Desai’s film, inspired by engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, also stars Parineeti Chopra, Kumud Mishra and Pavan Malhotra. Out in cinemas on October 6.

A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
How the attacks on Kunal Karma undermine the freedoms of all Indians
‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
Why government job drives are killing people in India
How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
Uttarakhand renames Aurangzebpur as Shivaji Nagar, 16 other places citing ‘public sentiment’