Daily Brief: Can Ashok Gehlot lead the Congress to a historic comeback in Rajasthan?

Can Ashok Gehlot lead the Congress to a historic comeback in Rajasthan?

His cleverly packaged social welfare push is making the party hopeful. But there is a catch.

How the government covered up the severity of Sikkim floods by blaming them on a ‘cloudburst’

The disaster was far more serious: a glacial lake had burst, and its surging waters had washed away dams in the Teesta basin.

India launches special flights to return citizens from Israel

There are about 18,000 Indian citizens in the West Asian country.

Shanta Gokhale on why she and Jerry Pinto translated Marathi poet Tukaram’s hymns as a ‘jugalbandi’

An excerpt from Shanta Gokhale’s translator’s note in ‘Behold! The Word Is God: Hymns of Tukaram’. Translated from Marathi by Shanta Gokhale and Je...

A new book suggests ways for India to harness the talents of its tier-2 and tier-3 cities

An excerpt from ‘Middle Of Diamond India: National Renaissance through Participation and Enterprise’, by Shashank Mani.

‘We are all subject to transplantation’: Perumal Murugan on why ‘Fire Bird’ resonates with readers

The eighth in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

Fiction: A real estate agent is a vampire, the house on sale is haunted, and its ghost was murdered

An excerpt from ‘Masters of Death’, by Olivie Blake.

ICC Men’s ODI World Cup: Rohit, Bumrah star as India register dominant win against Afghanistan

Sharma’s century was also the fastest by an Indian in a World Cup, quicker than Kapil Dev’s hundred in 72 balls against Zimbabwe in 1983.

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