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Pir Panjal elections: ST status for Pahadis overshadows development issues

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Poonch: Security officials leave for their designated polling stations ahead of the second phase of J & K Assembly polls, in Mendhar area of Poonch, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI09_24_2024_000037B)

analysis

Published on Sep 25, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Kolkata: With the SC on the ball and demands met, let normality prevail

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Kolkata: People take part in a protest march over the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor, in Kolkata, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI09_22_2024_000369A)

opinion

Published on Sep 24, 2024 03:59 PM IST

Tirupati: The world’s richest temple body is a battleground for politicians

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**EDS: SCRENSHOT VIA PTI VIDEOS** Tirupati: A priest performs the purification ritual 'Shanti Homam Panchagavya Prokshana' to undo the alleged desecrations that occurred at Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple during YSRCP government, at Tirumala in Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI09_23_2024_000107B)

opinion

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:15 AM IST

Explained: Indus Waters Treaty and why India is right to ask for a review

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In this Aug. 13, 2010 file photo, personnel of Border Road Organization and local volunteers work to stop the overflowing water of Indus river which was damaging a highway near Leh. Recently, India had formally notified Pakistan to “review” and “modify” the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) under Article XII (3) of the treaty. (PTI File Photo)

opinion

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:00 AM IST

People are splurging like never before on their pets

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Pets

lifestyle

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Sri Lanka: New president’s primary challenge will be to set the economy right

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)

opinion

Published on Sep 24, 2024 07:00 AM IST

Frequent elections ensure participation and vibrancy of India’s democracy

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Kashmir, India - September. 21, 2024: An election officer applies indelible ink mark on the finger of Bibi, 87, before casting her vote from home, as the Election Commission of India (ECI) initiated a home voting facility for the elderly in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections in Srinagar,on September 21,2024.(Photo By Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times)--

opinion

Published on Sep 23, 2024 09:00 AM IST

How Tirumala's laddu became the temple's sacred offering

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Tirumala Laddu, which received the geographical identification (GI) tag in 2009, has been popular among devotees since the 20th century

analysis

Published on Sep 23, 2024 08:30 AM IST

Is the era of the mega-deal over?

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Companies have been tentatively returning to the negotiating table after a dealmaking drought that began when central banks raised interest rates in 2022

world news

Published on Sep 23, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Eye on the Middle East | The India-Iran bilateral and a test of patience

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Ali Khamenei (Reuters)

analysis

Published on Sep 23, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Why governments need to strengthen policies to promote healthy diets

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health

Published on Sep 23, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Grand Strategy | Shift in Europe’s framing of the Ukraine conflict

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Emergency services workers look to move rubble and find injured after a Russian strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine early Sunday Sept. 22, 2024. (Kharkiv Regional Military Administration via AP)

opinion

Published on Sep 23, 2024 07:00 AM IST

India as an emerging chess superpower

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D Gukesh of India competes in the Chess Olympiad. (AP)

editorials

Published on Sep 22, 2024 10:28 PM IST

Quad woos the Indo-Pacific

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the sidelines of the Quad leaders summit on Saturday. (AP)

editorials

Published on Sep 22, 2024 10:27 PM IST

In the high voter turnout in J&K polls, a hope for peace

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J&K goes to polls in three phases starting September 18. (File)

opinion

Published on Sep 22, 2024 10:27 PM IST

Northeastern View | Is Northeast India in Southeast Asia?

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FILE PHOTO: A liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) delivery truck drives along India's Tezpur-Tawang highway which runs to the Chinese border, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh May 29, 2012./File Photo

analysis

Published on Sep 22, 2024 08:15 AM IST

The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs

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Alice Leal Guo, former mayor of Bamban in Philippines' Tarlac province, attends a hearing at the Senate in Manila over accusations of human trafficking and links to Chinese organised crime, on September 9, 2024. Alice Leal Guo was initially arrested in Indonesia on September 3, having been on the run since she was linked to a Chinese-run online gambling centre where hundreds of people were forced to run scams or risk torture. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa / AFP)

world news

Published on Sep 22, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Where the Indian legal system stands on solitary confinement in prison

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As per Section 31 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, solitary confinement shall only be imposed as a disciplinary measure of last resort, for a maximum of 14 days, and if recommended by a medical officer. (Getty Images/Vetta)

analysis

Published on Sep 22, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Just Like That | Power and loyalty: The wheel of history

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Powerful leader fall for self-serving and transient genuflection

opinion

Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:15 AM IST

Tech Tonic | Shouldn’t tech regulation be a proportionate, two-way street?

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We are all familiar with Apple’s game of keeping the Apple Watch within the iPhone fold. That should change, and we can only hope some regulatory push helps open that door (Vishal Mathur | HT Photo)

technology

Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:15 AM IST

DAG exhibition maps the advent and impact of photography in colonial India

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Sanchi Stupa by Lala Deen Dayal

Book Box | Why I hug trees

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A forest path

books

Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:00 AM IST

Kolkata rape and murder: Citizens attack, abuse policemen in disturbing trend

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Police officers from various police stations across Kolkata told HT that policemen working on the streets either alone or with a handful of colleagues seem to have become targets of the public outrage (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

analysis

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 07:24 PM IST

Keeping up with UP | Migrants in focus for Mumbai poll battle

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Migrants comprise 43.02% of Mumbai’s 23.5 million heaving urban mass, according to the 2011 Census. (Photo by Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)

opinion

Published on Sep 21, 2024 06:58 PM IST

Can I have a katha or kahani, please, says Poonam Saxena

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A still from the outstanding new Malayalam series Manorathangal, based on the writings of MT Vasudevan Nair.

art culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 02:00 PM IST

Folk, spoken word, jazz: Give the old mix a shuffle, says Sanjoy Narayan

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Cover art for the album Veena by American rapper Heems (birth name: Himanshu Kumar Suri).

art culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 01:29 PM IST

Track changes in Bastar: Check out medleys by tribal artists, Mumbai band Daira

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(Clockwise from top left) Lakheshwar Khudaram, Vineeta Pandey, Rahul Raikwar on the flute, and Soma playing the todi.

art culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 01:27 PM IST

VAR of the worlds: Rudraneil Sengupta writes on the Video Assistant Referee

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Pedro Porro takes a tumble after his shin meets the boot of Arsenal defender Jurrien Timber (at left). (AFP)

art culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 01:26 PM IST

Playing it by hear: How does one preserve an accent?

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(Image:Shutterstock; HT imaging: Monica Gupta)

art culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 01:23 PM IST

J&K polls: A shaky Opposition could offset BJP’s tricky set of challenges

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Anantnag: Voters show their voting slips as they wait to cast votes at a polling station during the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, in Anantnag district of J&K, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI09_18_2024_000229A)

analysis

Published on Sep 21, 2024 08:53 AM IST

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