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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
  • Interview: East India Company to Big Tech – how corporations think about knowledge
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    Interview: East India Company to Big Tech – how corporations think about knowledge
  • 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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    On Putin’s agenda as he visits New Delhi: Advancing ‘multipolarity’ with key role for India

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    Backstory 2024: When I trekked two hours in Himachal for an interview
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    How WhatsApp became the world’s ‘everything app’
  • What American steel baron Andrew Carnegie thought of Varanasi and the Taj
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    What American steel baron Andrew Carnegie thought of Varanasi and the Taj
  • Actor Allu Arjun’s home vandalised in Hyderabad, eight arrested
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    Actor Allu Arjun’s home vandalised in Hyderabad, eight arrested
  • This book proposal won Sohini Chattopadhyay a NIF fellowship for ‘The Day I Became a Runner’
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    This book proposal won Sohini Chattopadhyay a NIF fellowship for ‘The Day I Became a Runner’
  • 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?
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Video: This opera conductor is back in India 35 years after she was adopted by a Danish family

Maria Badstue was born in Maharashtra’s Pandharpur but had never returned since her adoption, till she was invited to conduct an opera in Mumbai.

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Aug 02, 2017 · 09:15 am
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