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  • Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
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    Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
  • ‘Bride in the Hills’: Kannada writer Kuvempu’s novel depicts life under the ruthless regime of caste
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    ‘Bride in the Hills’: Kannada writer Kuvempu’s novel depicts life under the ruthless regime of caste
  • 1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
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    1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
  • 2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
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    2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
  • Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
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    Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
  • What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
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    What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
  • How Zakir Hussain helped bridge the North-South divide in Indian classical music
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    How Zakir Hussain helped bridge the North-South divide in Indian classical music
  • Protected Area Regime reimposed in Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram
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    Protected Area Regime reimposed in Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram
  • Expelled for non-vegetarian tiffin: Why a mother went to court against her son’s school
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    Expelled for non-vegetarian tiffin: Why a mother went to court against her son’s school
  • Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged
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    Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged

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  1. Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner

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    1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
  4. 2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems

    2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
  5. Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?

    Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
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