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  • From the memoir: Industrialist Subroto Bagchi examines India’s attitude towards blue-collar jobs
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    From the memoir: Industrialist Subroto Bagchi examines India’s attitude towards blue-collar jobs

  • Sultana Siddiqui: The Pakistani TV veteran making shows with cross-border appeal
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    Sultana Siddiqui: The Pakistani TV veteran making shows with cross-border appeal

  • How I help my students understand the links between complex medieval history and today’s India
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    How I help my students understand the links between complex medieval history and today’s India

  • A new book tells beginners how to invest directly in stocks (instead of mutual fund schemes)
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    A new book tells beginners how to invest directly in stocks (instead of mutual fund schemes)

  • What a 1944 tally of foreigners revealed about wartime India
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    What a 1944 tally of foreigners revealed about wartime India

  • Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future
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    Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future

  • Why US court rejected Hindu group’s claims that caste discrimination cases violate religious freedom
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    Why US court rejected Hindu group’s claims that caste discrimination cases violate religious freedom

  • Banking, airlines, railways, coal, jute, newspapers: Ramkrishna Dalmia’s business-building spree
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    Banking, airlines, railways, coal, jute, newspapers: Ramkrishna Dalmia’s business-building spree

  • India’s bulldozer demolitions are being fuelled by political silence
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    India’s bulldozer demolitions are being fuelled by political silence

  • Prada’s Kolhapuri sandal copies show that law alone can’t protect India’s cultural capital
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    Prada’s Kolhapuri sandal copies show that law alone can’t protect India’s cultural capital

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Watch: This petrol pump in Chennai is operated entirely by female inmates of Puzhal prison

Thirty women still serving their terms in the Puzhal jail have been selected to run the outlet under the state prisons department’s rehabilitation programme.

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Aug 11, 2023 · 01:11 pm
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Freedom Filling Station - India’s first petrol retail outlet fully managed by women convicts inaugurated in #Chennai #TamilNadu 30 women inmates of #Puzhal prison employed, will get Rs 6000 each as monthly salary. Initiative of TN Prison Dept pic.twitter.com/CxDwGiz9z0

— Vijay Kumar S (@vijaythehindu) August 10, 2023

India's first petrol bunk which is being operated by women convicts commenced its services near Central Prison, Puzhal in Chennai. @THChennai pic.twitter.com/QInasaD88h

— R SIVARAMAN (@SIVARAMAN74) August 10, 2023

Thread (2/2)#MinisterReghupathy #FreedomFillingStation #inaguration #womenconvicts #womenprisoners #puzhaljail #Chennai pic.twitter.com/5S2S9d3EPb

— DT Next (@dt_next) August 10, 2023
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