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Ceat Strategic timeout during match 17 of the Indian Premier League season 18 (IPL 2025) between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Capitals held at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on the 5th April 2025. Photo by Samuel Rajkumar/ Sportzpics for IPL

Fortresses breached — IPL’s new normal is a step towards a level-playing field

R. Kaushik

News in Frames | Threads of tradition

Ritu Raj Konwar

B.R. Gavai | A firm hand

Krishnadas Rajagopal
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Why are civil disputes being criminalised? | Explained

Soibam Rocky Singh
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Sadanand Date | Fight to the finish

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Murshidabad violence | Mamata is the ‘Durga of the RSS’, says West Bengal CPI(M) leader

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Nishikant Dubey slams former CEC Quraishi, calls him ‘Muslim commissioner’

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India can be active player in developing international framework for responsible behaviour in space: EU envoy

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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance to arrive on four-day visit; all eyes on dinner with PM Modi, speech in Jaipur

No other details of Mr. Vance’s programme were released, indicating much of Monday would be taken up by private engagements, including sightseeing, a visit to a temple, and shopping in Delhi, as well as meetings with U.S. Embassy officials
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance, with their children Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel. File

All schools in Kashmir to remain shut on April 21 amid heavy rains

A view of damaged structures and collapsed terrain following a landslide triggered by heavy rains and hailstorm, in Ramban on Sunday, April 20, 2025.

Doctor, hospital staff sacked for dragging and assaulting a 77-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh government hospital

Mehul Malpani

Day after building collapse, MCD cracks down on unsafe structures

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​Law of the land: on the judiciary and waqf amendments

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​Enabling legislation: on Tamil Nadu Bills, persons with disabilities  

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‘Heat-related data indicate that the impact of heat stress is worst on the poor, the marginalised, migrants, subsistence workers, women, and the elderly’ 

Beat the heat with people-centric responses

Chandrakant Lahariya

Letters to The Editor — April 21, 2025

Empowering the most marginalised

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How a colleague’s expertise can sharpen our writing

Meera Srinivasan

Calling out American trade illegality

Prabhash Ranjan

Steering the decarbonisation of India’s logistics sector

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