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Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai makes it to the longlist again!
Literature

Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai makes it to the longlist again!

Desai, who won the prestigious literary prize 19 years ago, makes it to the list with her ‘vast, immersive' ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'
access_time 29 July 2025 11:02 PM IST
Kolhapuri chappals get QR code as govt moves to protect craft
India

Kolhapuri chappals get QR code as govt moves to protect craft

access_time 27 July 2025 1:51 PM IST
IPS officers query to cook on sasural brings 300 tribals back home
India

IPS officer's query to cook on 'sasural' brings 300 tribals back home

The revelation paved the way for 300 Kodarvi tribals to return to Mota Pipodara, their village they fled in 2014 due to...

access_time 19 July 2025 7:32 PM IST
Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter Prize
Literature

Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter Prize

The writer has cast an "unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world” in the spirit of Harold Pinter, after whom the...

access_time 10 July 2025 7:51 PM IST
Dalit man abused with caste slurs outside Mumbai temple, family booked
India

Dalit man abused with caste slurs outside Mumbai temple, family booked

A Dalit man was allegedly abused with casteist slurs by three upper caste individuals outside Mumbai’s Omkareshwar...

access_time 3 July 2025 5:13 PM IST
Gujarat HC acts against officials for demolishing 300-year-old dargah
India

Gujarat HC acts against officials for demolishing 300-year-old dargah

The Gujarat High Court has issued a contempt notice to Junagadh civic officials for allegedly defying a Supreme Court...

access_time 1 July 2025 6:27 PM IST
Plumbing the profound with perspicacious poetics
Books

Plumbing the profound with perspicacious poetics

The anthology is not only a thought-provoking read, but also a quest as Mehta does not ease your way by providing...

access_time 30 Jun 2025 12:41 PM IST
A vanity-driven viceroy, a principled wife: The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie
Books

A vanity-driven viceroy, a principled wife: The Mountbattens by Andrew Lownie

In The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves, Andrew Lownie offers a vivid, well-researched portrait of an ambitious yet...

access_time 30 Jun 2025 2:56 PM IST
Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards: Indugopan, Anitha win bests
Literature

Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards: Indugopan, Anitha win bests

When GR Indugopan won the best novel for "Aano", Anitha Thampi received the poetry award for "Muringa Vazha Kariveppu"

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DNA confirms filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala died in Ahmedabad plane crash
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DNA confirms filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala died in Ahmedabad plane crash

Jirawala, who had been missing since last week's Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, was confirmed dead after DNA...

access_time 21 Jun 2025 6:04 PM IST
Akhil P Dharmajan wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for ‘Ram c/o Anandi’
Literature

Akhil P Dharmajan wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for ‘Ram c/o Anandi’

Writer Sreejit Muthedath was honoured with the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his children’s novel ‘Penguinukalude...

access_time 18 Jun 2025 6:28 PM IST
Pak’s Ahmadis face ban on Eid animal sacrifice, forced to sign affidavits
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Pak’s Ahmadis face ban on Eid animal sacrifice, forced to sign affidavits

Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community is reportedly being forced by police to sign affidavits pledging not to perform...

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Millions pray at Mount Arafat in Hajj apex
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Millions pray at Mount Arafat in Hajj apex

Despite temperatures soaring above 40°C (104°F), about 1.5 million devotees from around the world united in faith during...

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Eid-ul-Azha: Islamic Centre calls for peaceful animal sacrifice, no social media posts
India

Eid-ul-Azha: Islamic Centre calls for peaceful animal sacrifice, no social media posts

The Islamic Centre of India has issued a detailed advisory urging Muslims to perform animal sacrifices for Eid-ul-Azha...

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Pune law student arrested for derogatory post on Prophet Muhammad
India

Pune law student arrested for derogatory post on Prophet Muhammad

Sharmishta Panoli was arrested by Kolkata police in Gurugram on May 30 for posting offensive remarks about Islam and...

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Karnataka: Tension in Belagavi after Quran, Hadith copies found burnt
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Karnataka: Tension in Belagavi after Quran, Hadith copies found burnt

Three copies of the Quran and Hadith were stolen from an under-construction mosque in Santi Bastawad village on May 11...

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