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Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged
How Zakir Hussain helped bridge the North-South divide in Indian classical music
Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis retains home ministry, Ajit Pawar gets finance in new Cabinet
One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him
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· Mar 01, 2020 · 08:30 pm
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