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Rizvi fails again, UP concede lead

LUCKNOW, Oct. 18 -- Young Sameer Rizvi has been a perfect white ball cricketer as he has the capacity to hit the ball hard and for long too. His 601 runs in 33 T20 ties and 358 runs with a century in ... Read More


Veterans take centre stage in Bihar political battleground

PATNA, Oct. 18 -- In line with the local adage 'saatha so paatha (men are hale and hearty even at sixty)' Bihar's politics has always rewarded endurance more than novelty. Even as younger faces crowd ... Read More


Punjab DIG sent to judicial remand

Chandigarh, Oct. 18 -- A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Friday sent Punjab Police deputy inspector general (DIG) Harcharan Singh Bhullar, held in a bribery case, to 14-day judicial cus... Read More


V.I.P. to contest 15 seats as part of oppn Bloc

Patna, Oct. 18 -- The Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), a key constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, on Friday announced that it had finalised a seat-sharing deal with the RJD-Congress-Left combine by... Read More


The case of the lost rebels

India, Oct. 18 -- In 1838, a scandal broke out in the then princely state of Burdwan (now, Bardhaman in West Bengal) when Basantakumari, one of the widows of the deceased king Tejchandra, eloped with ... Read More


Shaping India's electoral landscape

India, Oct. 18 -- For much of India's democratic history, the woman voter was invisible and ignored. That has changed. Today, women vote in greater numbers than ever before, often making independent c... Read More


Murders in a temple town

India, Oct. 18 -- Rajan, the hooch distiller, needs a couple of ghosts to scare off anyone coming up the mountain towards Ettunaad. Who better than the penniless Aadi and Saravanan, sons of Ettunaad's... Read More


how a Company conquered a nation

India, Oct. 18 -- In April 1608, when a ship named Hector, belonging to the British East India Company, arrived on the shores of Surat, no one foresaw how some of the merchants on board would go on to... Read More


'We Asians are proud of our ghosts'

India, Oct. 18 -- 1How did your new novel, The Midnight Timetable, come about? There are bits and pieces from all over the place. The title of it came from a small bus station near where I live. I liv... Read More


India must engage with the Taliban, but do it cautiously

India, Oct. 18 -- The photograph of the Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi sitting under an old portrait of the Bamiyan Buddhas at the Afghanistan Embassy in Delhi - an iconic heritage site hi... Read More