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1905: The Partition Before Partition

The partition of Bengal in 1905 split more than a province, it touched people's hearts and awakened India's fight for freedom. IMAGE: A vendor is seen tying a rakhi on a boy in Calcutta on October......

Bangladesh: What Next?

One year after Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule ended in Bangladesh, hopes for real democracy are fading. What began as a student protest over job quotas grew into a nationwide uprising that forced......

Dhaka: 1971 war veterans jailed on terrorism charge

A Bangladeshi court on Friday sent 16 people, including several 1971 Liberation War veterans, to jail under the tough Anti-Terrorism Act, a day after a mob allegedly disrupted their scheduled......

Prajwal Revanna loses his Hassan seat

Suspended Janata Dal-Secular leader and MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, was on Tuesday defeated in the Hassan Lok Sabha segment, by a margin of 42,649......

Dhaka limps back to normal, but protests yet to die down

With the metro resuming services, buses and taxis plying regularly and university students enjoying carefree evening strolls in the gardens of the historic Curzon Hall -- life seems to be returning......

How Jamsetji Tata created the Indian Institute of Science

The Indian Institute of Science topped the HRD ministry's 2017 national rankings.In 2016, the IISc was ranked among the world's top 15 universities in the Times Higher Education University......

The year of living dangerously in Karachi

Rawalpindi must downsize its quest for 'strategic depth' in Afghanistan and Kashmir, notes Matein Khalid. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters The current balance of payments crisis in Pakistan......

A brilliant plan to turn around the Indian Railways

The object in India for such a density of population should be to construct locomotive railways for trunk lines of communication, and horse railways for the short branches, says Bibek Debroy. "......

Lord Curzon Ki Haveli Review: Quirky

Lord Curzon Ki Haveli lacks the wit and the wickedness to go anywhere with the mildly intriguing setup, observes Deepa Gahlot. There have been films set mostly in a single location; ones that......

'Rasika Is The Female Shah Rukh Khan'

IMAGE: Anshuman Jha, Rasika Dugal and Arjun Mathur at the Lord Curzon Ki Haveli launch event. Photograph: Hemantkumar Shivsharan/Rediff "It's not a joke!" This playful quip from the trailer of......

'Distance has never been a factor for us'

IMAGE: Anshuman Jha with wife Sierra Winters. Photograph: Kind courtesy Anshuman Jha/Instagram Anshuman Jha and his American wife Sierra Winters became proud parents to baby girl Tara on March 10.......

Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Review: Lost In Politics

With the kind of money and talent that has gone into making this movie, a really good biopic of a personality like Savarkar could be made. But this film is lost in polemics, as is the case with......

'I worked on my butt for months'

'I am one of three actors in the country to have an Emmy nomination, and that is the thing to take away from here.''Not what happened to my career.' IMAGE: Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur in......