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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
  • 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

  • Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
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    Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
  • 2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
    4

    2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
  • 1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
    5

    1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
  • Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
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    Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
  • One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him
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    One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him
  • 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
  • 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?
  • Sunday book pick: Sexual escapism and familial expectations lock horns in ‘The Children’s Bach’
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    Sunday book pick: Sexual escapism and familial expectations lock horns in ‘The Children’s Bach’
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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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    Shirish Patel: The urban planner who looked beyond the vanity of Mumbai’s privileged

  3. Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule

    Bangladesh panel alleges India’s involvement in enforced disappearances during Sheikh Hasina’s rule
  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. 1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting

    1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting
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