| Two years later, the woman speaks in hushed tones. “The name is not even uttered in our home,” she said, requesting anonymity. |
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| Droupadi Murmu: Sounds of a celebration, at a scale yet unseen, filled the village of Uparbeda. Most residents were out on the streets singing and dancing, tribal performers beat drums, and distributed sweets. |
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| As films led by superstars continue to flop, A-listers are taking pay cuts and there is talk of budgets going towards storytelling instead, says Anupama Chopra. |
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| There’s more to Sanskrit than most Indians realise. Sure, there were the Vedas, the myths and legends, but there was also humour, satire, biting mockery, of those in power and of fools, of fake godmen and even the gods. A new anthology of translated verse holds some delightful examples. |
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| Bihar boy Shubham Yadav has walked with nomads across the Gobi Desert, taken a dip in the icy waters of Siberian Russia. See how he travels the world on ₹500 a day. |
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| The biggest reason why women stop working, even looking for a job—this is what being in the labour force entails – is because they have to be home makers. As far as men are concerned, this is hardly a constraint. |
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| At a captive-breeding centre in Rajasthan, wild eggs are incubated and chicks reared in captivity. The plan is for their chicks to be released into the wild, to repopulate the Thar Desert’s grasslands. |
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| In France and Spain, new VR-driven technology attempts to prompt empathy in abusers by showing them the perspective of victims and experience a very specific kind of fear |
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| The latest report of National Health Accounts (NHA) – it has data for 2018-19 – shows that the burden of health spending on Indian households continues to reduce. |
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| Air Indians, and we hope all Indians, share the view that seizing this decade and realising India’s aviation opportunity by the centenary year of JRD Tata’s first flight would be the finest possible tribute to his pioneering achievements and legacy. |
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| About 40 meetings are expected to be held under the finance track covering areas such as international financial architecture, financial sector reforms, financial inclusion, sustainable finance, infrastructure and climate financing, and tax matters |
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| The Khilafat movement’s leaders, the brothers Maulanas Mahomed Ali and Shaukat Ali, with Gandhi’s lead brought his ideal of Hindu-Muslim unity to near-fruition |
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| A 16-year-old girl from Bengaluru was found by Delhi Police after she flew to Delhi to meet a boy, without informing her parents. Here's how the police found the minor |
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