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Journey of Vicky Goswami: From a bootlegger in Ahmedabad to an alleged...
Alleged druglord Vicky Goswami and Bollywood star Mamta Kulkarni are believed to be in a relationship since ’90s, though they deny it A bootlegger from Ahmedabad lands in Mumbai, meets Bollywood star...
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The constant struggles and lasting popularity of jatra groups in Odisha
Fifteen kilometres from Bhubaneswar, and by the side of an irrigation canal in Cuttack’s Dhakulei village, at least 60 men and women are readying themselves for a night during which they won’t get any...
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Beneath two Meerut girls ‘confession’ of killing their father, lies a long...
Soon after the girls confessed, their mother left home without informing them, taking along their brother. (Express Photo) It’s the strangest of cases. Two girls of a Meerut locality publicly claimed...
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North by Northeast: What explains BJP’s stunning win in Assam?
The day after, the architects of the BJP’s win in Assam — (from left) Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sarbananda Sonowal and national general secretary Ram Madhav. (Express photo/Dasarath Deka) After the...
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‘We started working on Assam even before 2014 polls’
BJP National Secretary Ram Madhav (File). How did you repackage BJP for Assam? Each state is different. It’s not about re-packaging the party but devising the right strategy for a given state. We...
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A day in the life of a worker at Godhra’s stone crushing factory
A day in the life of Ramu Mahavir, 35, worker at a stone crushing factory in Godhra. Here, Mahavir spreads the stones on the conveyor belt with his hand. At Hindustan Mineral Products, one of 20...
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A day in the life of a CPM office in Kolkata: ‘We are in hiding’
There is a “crippling tiredness” about the office, admits the CPM’s losing candidate from Beleghata, Rajib Biswas. (Express photo Partha Paul) It’s 10 am and the office traffic in the East Kolkata...
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The stench at West Mulund
Hemlata and Jayashree at their Guide Society home. “What smell are they talking about?” says Chimanlal. (Express photo by Abhijit Alka Anil) Everyone knows the Savlas now. On May 16, from a house...
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Under the 40-degree plus sun, Delhi Zoo goes into summer protocol
As Delhi complains of the heat, try being in Riaz Khan’s shoes. His one inmate is used to -2 degrees Celsius, the other to 40-degree temperatures; the biggest weighs in at 2,500 kg, the smallest is...
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Archaeology goes hands-free
Graduate student participating in an archaeological dig. Archaeology is rapidly maturing as a strongly multidisciplinary field. Traditional methods (digging, excavating, comparing artifacts, manual...
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The exam factor: Why RTE’s no-detention provision is on test
Stemming such dropouts was the main reason the Right to Education Act included the no-detention provision, considered the law’s backbone. What the 14-year-old always feared has come true. One of an...
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Africans attacked in Delhi: Tracing the faultlines of open racism and distrust
In Rajpur Khurd in the Capital where attacks on Africans happened, prompting the MEA to step in, there are few meeting points between the villagers and their new neighbours. As Africans recede into...
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Capital Haul: As Andhra Pradesh prepares to move into its new capital, we...
Work on at the transitional secretariat in Velagapudi. Harsha Vadlamani 13,300 people, 500 trucks, 1 lakh files, 1 lakh weapons, 342 km. Exactly two years after it split, Andhra Pradesh has begun the...
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Many mini Mayas: A day in the life of a Lucknow sculptor
Artist Amarnath Prajapati busy to make Bahujan Samaj party Supreemo Mayawati’s statue at his work shop in Lucknow (Source: Express/Vishal Srivastav) Amarnath Prajapati says he cut his teeth making...
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With entire lion pride in Gir caged for first time, reports of rumblings in...
As the sun pales on a sweltering summer day, sharecropper Raju Charola, 33, his wife Champa and mother Labhu quickly tuck into their dinner of potato curry, chapati and mango pickle, inches from their...
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Lights out in Malegaon: What’s killing Mollywood?
Nasir runs an eatery now and says is focused on his “akhirat (afterlife)”. (Express photo by-Zeeshan Sheikh) “We are making films without equipment. We have no weapons but we’re fighting a war. And...
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The home stretch
Bajaj (right) instructs workers building the stage for the Yoga Day event. Earlier a worker sustained a minor injury when an aluminium rod fell on him. (Express photo by- Jasbir Malhi) It’s a cloudy...
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The elusive Baba Jai Gurudev in the Mathura mix
The temple at the ashram in Mathura. Followers say its marble “rivals Taj Mahal’s” (Express Photo by Oinam Anand) Not far from where Mathura blew up on an unsuspecting administration’s face, lies a...
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Pahlaj Nihalani uncut: Long journey of the scissor-happy CBFC chief
Nihlani’s scissor-happy ways, ever since he took over as CBFC chairperson in January 2015, have inspired dozens of memes and jokes on social media. The setting sun has turned the sea a deep orange....
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In Rajasthan and Haryana, new rules for contesting panchayat polls exclude...
Shalini Nair travels to Rajasthan and Haryana, two states whose governments had made school education a prerequisite for those contesting the panchayat polls, and finds the new rules are pushing women,...
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