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For all their stirring speeches while passing the women’s reservation bill in Parliament in September last year—454 for, two against—political parties across the board have gone back to their usual stinginess in fielding women candidates. As voters, women aren’t a homogeneous block.(HT FILE PHOTO) Nobody knows when the women’s ...

An apple farmer, an airline caterer and an out-of-work graduate are among the Indian nationals to have been recruited into the Russian military as it wages war on Ukraine.  Two years into the war, tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have died in the conflict, and Moscow is on ...

Faint red smudges have begun to dispel the mass of darkness in the eastern sky above Hanuman Garhi when Seema Yadav sets out from her hotel. Her seven-year-old son Atul’s arm firmly clasped in one hand, she is sprinting up a maze of crumbling alleys. There is a kilometre-or-so ...

Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities that make up for about 8.6% of the country’s total population as per the 2011 census and can sway electoral outcomes in a clutch of states have been a constituency that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pursued to not only improve its performance ...

Last summer, when England were obsessed with jazzing up Test cricket, chances are you would have missed Pakistan opener Abdullah Shafique’s match-winning 160 at Galle. It was a fourth-innings, 408-ball, nearly nine-hour-long, unbeaten epic. Very few bat this long these days. Shafique still had a hundred to show for ...

Last week, as the glorious sight of the Chandrayaan-3 successfully blasting off from Sriharikota filled our hearts and screens, India’s national space agency, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), was once again in the global limelight, this time for its efforts to make India only the fourth country in the ...

A five-decade cyclical famine is said to have started it, the only time the Indian government launched air strikes on its own citizens marked it in ignominy, and the accord, which ended it in 1986, is now a symbol of enduring peace. PREMIUM More than god, the people of ...

Inside his capacious office, his tan curtains drawn against the tropical sun, the president of Suriname expressed sympathy with the striking teachers who were massing outside, taunting him while demanding higher wages.Three years of unmitigated catastrophe has destroyed spending power in this South American country — the result of ...

Hundreds of people may have died last week in the Mediterranean, after a boat overloaded with migrants, including many children, capsized and sank. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in years.Please take a moment to read this article by my Times colleagues Christina Goldbaum and Zia Ur-Rehman, ...

Five people were on board the Titan submersible when it lost contact with its support ship during a dive to the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic on Sunday. On Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard and the company that operated the submersible, OceanGate Expeditions, said that all five ...