Daily Brief: Top buyers of electoral bonds include lottery king, infrastructure giant, mining group Vedanta, and more

Top buyers of electoral bonds include lottery king, infrastructure giant, mining group Vedanta

Lottery giant Future Gaming and Hotel Services bought bonds worth Rs 1,368 crore. Megha Engineering bought bonds worth Rs 966 crore.

Telangana-Andhra firm bought bonds worth Rs 55 crore six months after tax raids

Navayuga Engineering Company Limited built the disaster-struck Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand.

How two families overcame mistrust and fear to fight for justice in Hapur lynching case

After a mob killed a cattle trader in 2018, his brother reluctantly joined hands with a witness to seek justice. Their six-year battle led to a conviction.

‘Betrayal by BJP’: Why CAA rules might not help Hindu Bengalis left out of Assam NRC

Undocumented refugees from Bangladesh will struggle to produce the papers the CAA asks for.

Few questions, low attendance: How celebrity MPs fared in the 17th Lok Sabha

They participated in few debates and discussions and had an attendance of 56.7%, lower than the average for all MPs.

Travelogue: In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Durgacharan Rakshit travelled to most parts of India

An excerpt from ‘Journeys Across India’, by Durgacharan Rakshit, translated from the Bengali by Sarbani Putatunda.

In translation: Subimal Misra’s ‘anti-stories’ about the Gulf War and other man-made atrocities

An excerpt from ‘The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories’, by Subimal Misra. Translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy.

‘Bastar – The Naxal Story’ review: Boom-and-bust conspiracy tales from Maoist country

‘The Kerala Story’ director Sudipto Sen is back.

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