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A farmer burns paddy stubble at a field near Jalandhar.

Data Card | The rot within: Punjab reeling under a host of problems

A miasma of problems looms over Punjab’s agricultural and industrial success.

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Landslide in Joshimath of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.

Alarming rise in landslides now a pan-India peril

It is leading to calls for a serious rethink on balancing development with environmental concerns.

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Raj Bhavan, Tamil Nadu.

Governors in India: The power and the privilege

Right from the start, the governor’s presence has been a thorn in Centre-State relations.

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Kannada cinema: New kid on the block

After ‘KGF’ and ‘Kantara’, audiences nationwide have suddenly woken up to the Kannada film industry.

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Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi with party MP Rahul Gandhi at the AICC Headquarters in New Delhi in 2019.

Indian National Conundrum: Understanding the Congress party trajectory

India’s oldest party, which led the mass movement for Independence, is in a shambles.

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YouTube: India's go-to place for news and entertainment

The video-sharing platform has an estimated 567 million users and is set to grow in the years ahead.

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At a cinema hall screening Aamir Khan-starrer Laal Singh Chaddha, in Ahmedabad on August 26, 2022.

Lights, camera, right turn

Boycott calls and ultra-nationalist films show the project of weaponising Bollywood is complete.

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A view of the High Court of Karnataka.

Slow wheels of justice

The delivery of justice has been delayed to tens of millions of Indian citizens for decades.

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India at 75 | Timeline: Cinema

Indian cinema never wavered from its role as cultural unifier.

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At the Thiruvananthapuram airport’s New International Terminal Building.

What explains India’s record number of passports since 2014?

The record number of passports issued shows the growing interest among Indians in going overseas.

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At the New York City Pride Parade in New York in 2018.

A queer history of literature and science

Literature and science are full of brilliant queer men and women who were hounded for their sexuality in their lifetime.

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