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November 14, 2018 08:34 am | Updated 08:34 am IST

TRS Adilabad constituency candidate Jogu Ramanna, who is Forest Minister in caretaker Cabinet, tries his hand at selling vegetables from a push cart in town.

TRS Adilabad constituency candidate Jogu Ramanna, who is Forest Minister in caretaker Cabinet, tries his hand at selling vegetables from a push cart in town.

Congress takes the fight to TRS camp in Telangana

A little over two months after dissolution of Telanaga Assembly, the mood among the electorate seems to hint that the TRS may have misjudged the impact of the government’s schemes, with public aspirations pegged higher than what had been actually delivered on the ground.

Is crop insurance scheme losing steam?

More than 84 lakh farmers, which is around 15% of the total farmers insured in the first year of the Union government’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in 2016-17, withdrew themselves from the scheme in 2017-18, a reply to an RTI application has revealed.

Speaker to convene Sri Lankan Parliament today after court stays dissolution

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed President Maithripala Sirisena’s dissolution of Parliament and restrained the Election Commission from preparing for snap elections.

The ruling comes amid a fortnight-long political upheaval.

Incorrect to say I ordered tigress Avni's killing: Mungantiwar

Under fire after tigress Avni was killed instead of being captured, Maharshtra Minister for Forests, Finance and Planning, Sudhir Mungantiwar, speaks exclusively to  The Hindu . The minister has argued that the killing of Avni was sanctioned by the Supreme Court and no law was broken. Instead of slipping into technicalities such as details of the post-mortem report, one should see whether the apex court’s order has been followed, he said.

Opinion | Beyond ideology?

Kautilya’s Arthashastra states: the enemy of enemy is my friend. That begs the question: enemies when, and friends when? writes

SC decision on Sabarimala packs a win-win situation for all

The Supreme Court decision on Tuesday to hear all review petitions and other applications on its own verdict that eased the restrictions on women’s entry to Sabarimala in an open court has left the floor open for varying interpretations.

GSAT-29 to be launched today

GSAT-29, the communication satellite being put to orbit on Wednesday, has spot beams specially designed to improve Internet-based communication in inaccessible Jammu and Kashmir and the North-Eastern States, ISRO Chairman K.Sivan says in a pre-launch video put out by the space agency.

'Sarkar' stirs debate on subsidies in Tamil Nadu

The recent controversy over Vijay-starrer  Sarkar , triggered by certain scenes that were critical of the culture of freebies in the State, has sparked a debate on the politics of subsidies in Tamil Nadu.

Ageless Anand: How the chess legend is competing with players one-third his age

More than a decade ago when Magnus Carlsen was making waves as a pre-teen sensation, during one of our conversations, Viswanathan Anand mentioned that the Norwegian talent was only continuing a trend of young talents taking on veterans thrice their age.

Pihu has only one unique thing: its storyline, says filmmaker Vinod Kapri

Journalist-turned-filmmaker Vinod Kapri talks about shooting with a two-year-old as the sole actor in his second feature, financing issues project and a marketing gimmick that went wrong

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