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Contemporary Myanmar's best known historian Thant Myint-U's latest book brings his series of books on Myanmar, beginning with his thesis on The Making of Modern Burma, up to date to the present. In the process he provides as complete a guide to under

In response to a series of questions in Parliament, G. Kishan Reddy, the minister of state for home affairs, offered a barrage of statistics to show that Kashmiris were increasingly participating in ordinary life, that children had returned to school

Lok Tantra Just hours before he was to take oath as chief minister on November 23, Devendra Fadnavis and his wife Amruta hosted a late-night pooja at the CM's official residence, Varsha. Conducting the ceremony were four priests from the Ma Baglamukh

India's abysmal nutritional outcomes become newsworthy for about two days every year, coinciding with the release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. This year was no exception: for two days, a handful of media outlets bemoaned India's further s

Madhu Koda, Jharkhand's only independent' chief minister, who ruled the state for about two years between 2006 and 2008, suddenly finds himself out of the electoral race as the five-phase assembly election kicks off in the state from November 30. Kod

Muneer Hussain is a desperate man today. The 42-year-old Shopian apple farmer has hundred-odd trees in his small orchard and, in a normal year, harvests about 1,500 boxes of apples. This season, though, the snow has fallen ahead of schedule and has r

India is on the threshold of setting up a gigantic national Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS), which the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under the home ministry, has laboured to insist will be used exclusively for criminal identificati

The scenic Pakyong airport in Sikkim, at a height of 4,646 feet, was planned as part of India's Act East strategy, opening up the air to new trade routes with Southeast Asia. But the airport hasn't seen a flight take off since June after SpiceJet sto

Q. You play Zarina in Inside Edge. Tell us about her arc in season two In season one, she was insecure, threatened and, by the end, cut a sorry figure. In season two, they have added another layer to her. Tired of getting screwed over by men, she fin

Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad have now been part of almost every Coke Studio line-up. Ayaz sings his qawwali while chewing paan, getting carried away with the beat of the dhol or with Muhammad's interventions. Their set usually ends in rapture. Perfor

Shut Up Sona is among the handful of Indian documentaries about contemporary musicians. The film is based around singer Sona Mohapatra's frequent battles with patriarchy, manifested in such sundry forms as male-skewed music festival line-ups and liti

Ravindra Chaubey Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Chhattisgarh Policies should keep in mind the poorest of the poor. Our focus has been on health, tackling malnutrition and remunerative prices for farmers for their produce Saurabh Patel

In A Death in the Himalayas, a British resident of a town in Kumaon is found murdered in the forest, prompting one character to succinctly note to investigators: Who all will you run after? The list of people who are happy to see her dead is long, ve

In the meeting room on the ground floor of his residence, Matoshree', in Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray has a white acrylic stand on his table. It has the words I like people who get things done' inscribed on it. It's a simple exposition of the Shiv Sena c

Even after his resignation on November 26, Devendra Fadnavis was closeted with senior BJP leaders through the day at his official residence Varsha'. He attended a meeting of BJP legislators at the Garware Club inside the iconic Wankhede stadium in th

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon is best remembered today as the Defence Minister who lost the 1962 India-China war. But in the course of his long and varied career as a lawyer, an expat freedom-fighter, an ambassador and a minister; Menon's complex r

The formation of the second Devendra Fadnavis government had led to jubilation in the BJP camp. Even its embarrassing failure, the arrival and exit of Ajit Pawar, didn't cause much disappointment. There was a sense of self-righteousness the rank and

On November 28, more than a month after the results of the assembly election were declared on October 24 and following a week of high political drama, Uddhav Thackeray became the first in his family to become the chief minister of Maharashtra. He lef

Politics may be the art of the possible. How else does one account for what happened on November 25 at Mumbai's Hyatt Hotel. Fifty-six MLAs of the Shiv Sena took an oath of loyalty to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar and Congre

Widely regarded as one of India's leading modern lights, Manu Parekh, 80, says, You can create art from art or from life. The life that Parekh speaks of is abundant in his work. It was conspicuous at Parekh's NGMA retrospective last year, and is now

The promiscuity of Indian political parties is well known. The past four decades are riddled with instances of the strangest bedfellows getting together to be in power. The most recent of course is the soap opera played out in Maharashtra. Two partie

Receiving a gift from a loved one can most certainly bring joy but with that being said, such gifts can also come with tax liabilities. It's a sad fact that not all gifts are tax-exempted. If the gifts received by an assessee during a year exceed the

These days, many insurers offer coverage to senior citizens, either via special schemes or by including senior-centric features in general schemes. There are also specific plans for diabetics and heart patients. However, unlike general health insuran

Good credit habits can lead to big savings. From October 1 this year, all floating-rate retail loans from banks including home and auto loans have been linked to external benchmarks. This new system has a provision under which the interest rate a bor

Since 2016, Islamic State (IS or ISIS) recruits in Afghanistan had been using messaging apps to communicate with their families in Kerala. Then, about five months ago, the messages stopped. The silence of over 100 such recruits about 30 of whom were

On November 25, while voting was underway for three assembly bypolls in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced her government's decision to grant land ownership rights to 11,900 refugee families in the state. It has been a na ghar ka,

Lauding the ample display of the spirit of cooperative federalism between the states, the Union minister for information & broadcasting, environment & forests and heavy industries, Prakash Javadekar, while delivering the keynote address at the 17th e