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A woman voter shows her inked finger after casting her vote for the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, at a polling station in Nagpur on November 20. The 2024 Assembly election has been perhaps the worst ever when it comes to communal propaganda in the State’s history.

Maharashtra’s ‘communal election’: Will it have a long-term social impact?

The 2024 Assembly election campaign unleashed a barrage of religious propaganda that could permanently damage the State’s cherished social harmony.

People wait for a suburban local train at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in May 2024. The TISS study titled “Illegal Immigrants to Mumbai” makes sweeping claims about Muslim migrants in Mumbai, a city of 22 million people, and academics say that the data is riddled with inconsistencies.

Academics condemn TISS migration study for bias, flawed methods, and ethical violations

They term the study on “illegal immigrants” to Mumbai a “calculated act of political interference”.

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The quiet legacy of Uma Dasgupta (1940-2024), Satyajit Ray’s young Durga in Pather Panchali

Even though the single role brought her immortality in the world of cinema, she chose the quiet life of a teacher instead of becoming a movie star.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

NPP banks on a lean Cabinet to keep the optics right, and deliver

President Dissanayake keeps crucial portfolios while inducting fresh faces; the Opposition nominates defeated candidates through national list.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

People watching the exit polls of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, at a TV showroom in Visakhapatnam on June 1.

Election analysis

Exit polls have morphed from research tools into media spectacles that chase ratings and drive market bets

To become reliable again, they require strict regulation and methodological overhaul.

Ashish Ranjan,Atul Kumar Pandey

Delhi smog hits highest level this year

Levels of microparticles is well over recommended limits in the city, schools have been ordered to hold classes online.

Supreme Court lifts the veil on demolition as extra-judicial punishment

In a people-centric judgment, the court demolishes “coincidence theory” as hollow, mandates due process to protect citizens’ right to shelter.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, NSCN(I-M) General Secretary, Thuingaleng Muivah, NSA, Ajit Doval, and others at the signing ceremony of the historic peace accord between the Government of India and NSCN, in New Delhi on March 20, 2023.

Naga peace process faces impasse as NSCN(I-M) threatens to resume ‘armed resistance against India’

As the government refuses to grant a separate flag and constitution for Nagalim, the rebel group seeks “third-party intervention”.

Sushanta Talukdar

Sri Lanka’s President and National People’s Power (NPP) coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on the day of the parliamentary election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on November 14, 2024.

Sri Lanka hands NPP historic super-majority, backing Dissanayake’s reform agenda

JVP coalition sweeps from southern strongholds to Tamil north, winning cross-ethnic support and reducing traditional parties to single digits.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book Orbital after winning the Booker Prize award 2024, in London, on November 12, 2024.

In choosing Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, Booker Prize speaks for a planet in crisis

From the confines of the International Space Station, the novel offers a powerful meditation on humanity’s relationship with a vulnerable Earth.

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Pankaja Munde in 2019. The senior BJP leader attributed her defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha election to the prevalence of a fake narrative.

No need for ‘Batenge toh Katenge’ narrative in Maharashtra, focus should be on development: Pankaja Munde

The senior BJP leader and MLC says the “fake narrative” that worked in MVA’s favour during the Lok Sabha election will not sway voters.

Posters of Anura Kumara Dissanayake on a wall in Jaffna.

Is Sri Lanka witnessing a shift in its ethnic politics?

For the first time, Tamil voters in northern Sri Lanka seem to back a Sinhalese president who promises to return their land and change old politics.

A vendor watches a live telecast as Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake addresses the nation in Colombo on September 25, 2024.

Can Anura Dissanayake convert his surprise presidential victory into parliamentary control?

Dissanayake courts Tamil and Muslim regions with development promises, seeking to expand beyond his Sinhala base. November 14 holds the answers.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

College students protest the suspension of the student union election in Dehradun, October 25.

Uttarakhand should restore student union elections

The suspension silences the very voices Uttarakhand needs most: young leaders from marginalised backgrounds who understand the region’s challenges.

Arunima Naithani,Devam Thapa

Maharashtra’s farmers are trapped in a vicious circle of loans and falling income.

In Maharashtra election, it is caste over crops

Soyabean sells Rs.700 below MSP and crops rot in unseasonal rain, but farmers seem to vote for their identity first. What’s gone wrong?

Quincy Jones poses after being awarded the Grand Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on October 6, 2014 in Paris.

Quincy Jones (1933-2024) showed the world that music speaks one language

How an 11-year-old’s break-in birthed eight decades of musical innovation, from Sinatra’s swing to Jackson’s pop revolution.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Dinanath Batra (left) receives a memento from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a programme commemorating the 125th birthday of RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar in Kolkata on April 01, 2015.

Dinanath Batra: The ‘educationist’ who waged war against knowledge

The RSS stalwart used lawsuits to pulp books and purge curricula on the grounds of making education ‘Indianness-centric’.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar challenges BJP’s welfare-driven campaign, citing ground reports of inflation nullifying cash benefits among women voters and widespread discontent among cotton and soyabean farmers.

I am sure people want change: Sharad Pawar

The veteran politician says while welfare schemes of the Mahayuti government may have had some impact, rising inflation negates all those benefits.

Shiv Sena supporters during the nomination filing rally of party candidate Mahendra Thorve for the Assembly election.

Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: The talking heads

As the State goes to the polls on November 20, here is a collection of conversations with crucial leaders whose campaigns will decide the verdict.

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