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AIADMK announces candidates for Rajya Sabha polls

The party is sending two candidates and had promised one to the Pattali Makkal Katchi as part of a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha election.

Real estate cos agog over public entities’ land parcel for affordable housing

Jaipur gets UNESCO World Heritage tag

Donald Trump says script failed him during I-Day speech

PM Modi launches BJP’s membership drive from Varanasi

Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik retires from ODIs

“I had planned this for a few years ago to retire on the last Pakistan World Cup match”

Budget 2019: Farmer Producer Organisations require ecosystem of support

Agriculture experts point out various challenges in setting up the FPOs

World Cup: Pakistan wins but predictably loses semifinal race

Nirbhaya Fund is dud as most schemes remain on paper, money unspent

How ‘shopoholic’ UPL adds muscle with takeovers

Homegrown agrochem MNC UPL believes in collaborations to drive growth and revenue

Birla-Adani in cement slugfest to be top player

With housing and roads expected see a boom, cement makers will be jockeying for the top slot

Uday Shankar: In the reckoning again

Former Star chief is back in the game with IPL digital bid

Matrimony.com buyback: Should you say Yes or No?

While there may be more steam left in terms of growth opportunities, given the premium valuation the buyback is offering, existing investors can tende

Weekly rupee view: Rupee at new low versus dollar

Fall may extend possibly dragging INR to 79 soon

Zomato-Blinkit deal: Quick commerce and late profits

The acquisition does not turn the tables for now

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up