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Prior relationship details, Aadhaar card: What live-in couples must submit under Uttarakhand UCC

Under the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code, the process to register a live-in relationship is more onerous than that to register a marriage.

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BJP says it spent Rs 1,737.68 crore on 2024 Lok Sabha elections

This was almost three times the combined expenditure of Rs 584.65 crore spent by the Congress on the parliamentary and four Assembly elections last year.

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A little bit of luck: Sri Lanka’s impressive turnaround from the brink of collapse

How did spectacular fiscal incompetence and a revolution replace the old political elite and ruling class with the new National People’s Power government?

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Video: The epidemic of hate speech in India

How did hate speech come to be so normalised in India?

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Mumbai’s architecture is losing its poetry

The city’s buildings were once laid out in a way that formed a rhythmic pattern. Today’s structures are tone-deaf.

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February nonfiction: Six new books that take deep dives into Indian history

Biographies of forgotten heroes, a teacher’s essays about his students, and more.

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‘Deva’ review: Style trumps substance in cop thriller

Rosshan Andrews directs Shahid Kapoor.

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Readers’ comments: Important report on increase in communal riots has a data flaw

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