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How to combine both speed and safety is the question bothering the Indian Railways now, after the tragic triple train accident at Bahanagar Bazar station in Balasore, Odisha. File.

Odisha train accident | Safety ‘derailed’

A ghat at Tribeni in West Bengal’s Hooghly district where a Kumbh Mela was held in February 2023.

Kumbh Mela at Tribeni: inventing tradition in West Bengal

Shiv Sahay Singh

The rescued 13-year-old survivor of bride trafficking in her hut in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat.

The big, booming business of child-bride trafficking in Gujarat

At the entrance of the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik district.

Systematic incitement plan in Maharashtra

Abhinay Deshpande

Mohammed Azimuddin, 59, who teaches 40 children at the primary school in Pokhri village, Latehar, wishes he could devote more time to teaching. He also has a lot of administrative work to do.

Inside Jharkhand’s single-teacher schools

A wall around Visva-Bharati university in Santiniketan that goes against Rabindranath Tagore’s idea of not building boundaries.

Disquiet at Santiniketan: protests at Visva-Bharati over eviction notice to Amartya Sen

Shiv Sahay Singh

The family home of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Tajpur Kalan village, Outer North Delhi.

Gangs of Delhi: murder of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya

Rishika (left), who had suffered from an acute depressive episode, was helped by ASHA worker Vandana Vishwakarma (right) with therapy sessions in Raisen district.

Talking therapy: ASHA workers offer hope in rural Madhya Pradesh

Mohar Sai and Mayuri’s children, one of them studying at Adani Vidya Mandir, stare into the coal mines in their backyard in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district.

Protests in Hasdeo Aranya | 10 years with a coal mine for a backyard

Abhinay Lakshman

The library of the Azizia madrasa with more than 4,500 rare books that was burnt down by a mob during communal violence on the day of the Ram Navami procession in Biharsharif, Nalanda district.

Ram Navami violence | The teens who held aloft swords and iron rods

Shola Khamba, a constellation of 16 monolithic (now 13) pillars, a part of the Sisupalgarh fort city in Bhubaneswar.

Odisha’s modern capital swallows its ancient urban hub

Satyasundar Barik

Arthi Namdev Jadhav, 28, holds a framed photograph of her farmer husband who died by suicide, in Hingangaon village in Maharashtra’s Beed district.

The half-sickle women of Maharashtra

Abhinay Deshpande

Shell-shocked: Sushma shows a picture of her two sons, seven and five years old, who died after being attacked by dogs in one of Delhi’s urban slums in the second week of March. She had moved to the city from a village in Allahabad to give her children a better life.

Stray dogs turn child killers

Distress call: A labourer at the APMC wholesale market in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Onion prices in Gujarat have seen a steady decline due to bumper harvest this season.

Farmer distress: falling prices, failing hopes

Abhinay Deshpande,A. M. Jigeesh

The seasonal settlement of labourers who migrate within Maharashtra to work on sugarcane fields.

Sugar-belt shocker: the financial and sexual abuse of Maharashtra’s migrant workforce

Abhinay Deshpande

Students from different organisations demand justice for Darshan Solanki outside IIT Bombay.

The Kota-quota hierarchy at IIT

Abhinay Lakshman

Jalliben holds up the only photograph the family has of her grandson.

A macabre murder in a ‘sacrifice for superpower’

Abhinay Deshpande

In Juan village, Haryana, Khushi Arya (in red) wrestles with a boy in the government-run Khajan Singh Akhada, where she is trained free of cost.

The strength and struggles of Haryana’s women wrestlers

Ashok Kumar,Alisha Dutta

Eking out a living: Women rolling beedis outside their houses at Dhuliyan municipality in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which is home to lakhs of beedi workers and is the hub of beedi making in the country.

Dusk descends on the beedi rollers of Murshidabad

Shiv Sahay Singh

Charusheela Ashok Bhalerao and her daughter Rishika at their residence in Deolali, Nashik.

The perfect murder that wasn’t: A scam that shook Nashik

Abhinay Deshpande

On the cusp of change: An aerial view of Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, where around 11 lakh urban poor live cheek by jowl in over 1.2 lakh cramped, tin-roofed shanties in a maze of crowded, winding alleys spread over 600 acres.

As Adani Group clinches project to redevelop Dharavi, dreams and doubts abound in Asia’s largest slum

A student looks at a map of India at a Kannada-medium primary school at Sankh village in Maharashtra’s Sangli district.

How Kannada-speaking villages of Maharashtra are caught in a parched periphery

Abhinay Deshpande

Red-crowned roofed turtle

The battle to bring freshwater turtles back from the brink

Shiv Sahay Singh

Building a brighter future: Pooja Banjara, who has enrolled herself in a local school, sits with her grandmother and relatives outside their house at Nimdi village in Alwar district.

Child marriage rears its ugly head in Rajasthan

Sreeparna Chakrabarty

Crime and punishment: Punjab Police personnel guard the house of the brother of Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri (below) at Shivala colony in Amritsar.

Shroud of fear hangs over Punjab

The KIA halt station. The South Western Railway runs MEMU train services to the airport, but the patronage has not been promising.

Over 14 years on, commute to Bengaluru airport continues to be a daunting task

Suchith Kidiyoor

An artist’s impression of KIA’s T2.

KIA T2: Garden city’s pathway to greater heights

Fight for justice: Candidates who had appeared for the Teacher Eligibility Test in 2014 stage a demonstration in Salt Lake, Kolkata.

Recruitment scam: a thorn in West Bengal govt.’s flesh

Shiv Sahay Singh

Vehicles seized in various cases left to rot at a police station in Vijayawada..

A long way to go for pollution control in Prakasam

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‘No consensus among States on scrappage policy’

Parts of old and damaged trucks left on the roadside in Autonagar without being scrapped, in Vijayawada.

Old is no longer gold

Spoilt for choice: A woman looks at the delicacies on offer at a sweet shop in C.R. Park, New Delhi.

Costly milk leaves a sour taste in Deepavali sweets

Samridhi Tewari,A. M. Jigeesh

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MVD powerless to stop vehicle stunts on social media

Dhinesh Kallungal

Taking a stand: Members from the Dalit community take vows to embrace Buddhism at Ambedkar Bhawan in central Delhi on October 5. Photo: Twitter/AdvRajendraPal

Decoding AAP’s ideological conundrum

Abhinay Lakshman,Nikhil M Babu

Mudhole tahsildar Kappagantula Shiva inspecting a fallen Red Sanders tree to issue entitlement certificate at GRAM farm, in Mudhole.

Red sanders growers in Telangana feel the blues

Wooden rocking horses being made in a workshop at Channapatna on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway.

Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway disrupts local businesses, from Channapatna toys to ‘thatte’ idli and Maddur vada

Darshan Devaiah B.P.,Jayanth R.

The 4.5-km long Kumbalgodu flyover between Kengeri and Hejjala which is a part of the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway.

Police ask motorists on Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway to drive cautiously

The Hindu Bureau

Stronghold breached: Security personnel at the camp set up at Tisia village in Jharkhand after driving the Maoists out of Burha Pahar.

All quiet on the Maoist front

Devesh K. Pandey

Avtar Singh shows the photos of his parents and siblings who were killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Kanpur, at his grocery shop which is named after his father, Vishakha Singh.

Doshi Kaun? As evidence fades on 1984 Kanpur riots, SIT finds clues in a booklet

Pedestrians are forced to walk amidst vehicular traffic as the footpath and road margin of M.G. Road is encroached, in Vijayawada.

Pedestrians in peril

The pavement near the Children’s Park occupied by the fast-food kiosks in Kurnool.

Paving the way for encroachment-free pavements

The fatal lure of instant loan apps

Vijaita Singh,Devesh K. Pandey,Samridhi Tewari

The Outer Ring Road was flooded after Halanayakanahalli Lake breached the banks.

Rains dampen Bengaluru’s brand image and more

A view of the spacious, aesthetically designed integrated district offices complex of Medchal-Malkajgiri district.

Enhanced governance: integrated district office complexes

Students cleaning trash as part of a beach clean-up drive organised by the State government along with US-based ‘Parley for the Oceans’ in association with GVMC, at Lawson’s Bay Beach in Visakhapatnam recently.

Winning the war on single-use plastic

Students at Saraswati Vidya Mandir in Surana village.

A missing pot and the unmissable caste divide

Spools of traditional cotton manja in a variety of colours on display at a shop at Hussainbagh in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly.

Chinese manja snips off desi challenger

Rampur Sadar MLA Mohammad Azam Khan at his residence in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.

Mohammad Azam Khan: a tale of valour, vendetta and victimhood

Bonding together: Muslims greet each other after offering prayers on Id-ul-Adha at Idgah Maidan in Tezpur, Assam.

Indigenous tag splits ‘Assamese Muslims’ wide open

Santal tribespeople at Pahadpur dancing to celebrate Droupadi Murmu’s nomination by the NDA as its Presidential candidate.

With Droupadi Murmu’s presidential nomination, great expectations on the ground

Satyasundar Barik

In search of justice: Deepinder Kaur, the mother of Sippy Sidhu, at her home in Mohali

Sippy Sidhu death | A murder still shrouded in mystery

Devesh K. Pandey

Cloud of uncertainty looms: The office of the Shiv Sena’s branch in Worli, the Assembly constituency represented by Aaditya Thackeray, wears a deserted look.

Shiv Sainiks’ hearts still beat for their wagh

Indian labourers working at a cotton processing unit in Kadi, Ahmedabad

Hanging by a thread: Gujarat’s textile industry

Feeling the heat: Farmers filling a concrete pond with water for wild animals to quench their thirst near a field at Lakhasar Rohi village in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district.

Rajasthan reels under relentless heatwave

Bishnoi firing a gun.

How Lawrence Bishnoi fell on the wrong side of the law

Jatin Anand,Arnabjit Sur

Spiritual quest: Hundreds of pilgrims await their turn to pay obeisance and seek blessings at Kedarnath temple, the abode of Lord Shiva, in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district.

Flood of pilgrims swamps Char Dham

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