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Shiyal Bet: A Gujarat island that has got electricity for the first time
Delite Cables Private Limited, the Vadodara-based contractor who eventually took up the work, overshot the deadline by around two years. Every evening for two decades, as harsh focus lights lit up...
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Boatman Ghulam Mohammad Guroo saved five tourists but lost fight to Jhelum river
Family of Ghulam Muhammad Guroo coming out of the houseboat near Rajbagh, (inset) Guroo. The 60-year-old boatman drowned in Jhelum river in Srinagar while saving three tourists after the Shikara they...
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I was in a daze till evening…Our house was burning and I couldn’t do...
Pranav Joshi, 30, garment trader from Jodhpur On June 13, a MiG-27 crashed in Mahaveer Nagar, a residential area in Jodhpur, reportedly damaging two houses, one of them Pranav Joshi’s. Pranav Joshi,...
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Personal doctor says Narasimha Rao’s reaction to Babri demolition was honest...
Why didn’t P V Narasimha Rao, India’s PM between 1991 and 1996, dismiss the UP government before the fall of the Babri Masjid? Was he sleeping as the domes were struck? And was he even plotting the...
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Multanpura: The plight of ‘cattle smugglers’ in the name of the cow
Azharuddin’s brother Zulfikar with his mother, sister-in-law and niece. Azharuddin had borne the brunt of the May 31 attack. (Source: Express photo by Milind Ghatwai) Multanpura, a settlement of about...
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Drawing a blank: A day in the life of a team conducting a ‘live evaluation’...
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama evaluates students of lower and upper primary classes during the enrollment drive at Bhayla Primary School, Bavla Taluka. (Source: Express photo Javed Raja)...
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‘I was topper of my class. I am disappointed at not making it in the first...
The geography cut-off for Miranda House college was 93 but I have an aggregate percentage of 92 in the CBSE board exam. She travelled over 2,400 km to get admission to a Delhi University college, only...
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‘I don’t know what happened inside the police station… but my child is...
The father alleges Sharma put the 15-year-old in a closed room and threatened her, in a bid to extract information in connection with the case. (Illustration: Subrata Dhar) An elopement, a nine-hour...
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After Salman Khan’s outrage, a day in the life of a mitti kushti pehelwan
Jeetu trains twice a day. Early mornings are meant for full contact sparring sessions known as jor while evenings are meant to practise technique or daav. (Express photo by Jonathan Selvaraj)...
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The other oil: How a product almost entirely imported has defied food inflation
India is the world’s second largest consumer of edible oil. (Reuters Photo) It costs the country roughly $10.5 billion in annual forex outgo, yet hardly attracts the kind of editorial commentary that...
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‘School to hospital, most of my life has been spent walking’
An auto being pushed through slush, which is what the road to Gumudumaha looks like after rains. The 5 were killed in an auto on this road. THE NEAREST bank where they get their NREGS money and the...
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Looking for God’s own country
When 21 people from Kerala went missing over the period of a month, the immediate concern was that they could have joined the IS, something that’s still to be confirmed. However, with visible signs of...
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The rogue’s gallery: Subhash Kapoor and India’s stolen artefacts
Subhash Kapoor It is more than four years since Subhash Kapoor was arrested and extradited to India. As recently as July 4, the National Gallery of Australia was talking about returning two of its...
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