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Rashid Khan’s little-known role in the film industry had an oversize impact

The classical musician passed away on January 9, but his Hindi and Bengali film music will continue to enthrall generations of listeners

Ustad Rashid Khan Khan was first noticed in the film world in Subhash Ghai’s 2005 film Kisna: The Warrior Poet, (Instagram/rashid_khan_ustad)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 16, 2024 07:01 PM IST

ByNarendra Kusnur

4 women staffers of Andheri fake call centre interrogated

Four women employed in an illegal call centre have been interrogated by police. The staff posed as telemarketers for US-based online pharmaceutical companies

Mumbai

Updated on Jan 16, 2024 09:39 AM IST

ByManish K Pathak, Mumbai

In 9 years, 248mn pulled out of multidimensional poverty: Niti Aayog paper

India’s so-called multidimensional poverty fell from 29.17% in 2013-14, when the Modi government assumed power, to 11.28% in 2022-23

India News

Updated on Jan 16, 2024 09:29 AM IST

ByZia Haq

In Ulfa camps that struck truce, a sense of cautious optimism

The government of India, government of Assam, and the pro-talks faction of Ulfa signed a historic agreement for permanent peace in Assam.

Members of the pro-talks faction of Ulfa, which has a cadre of close to 700 people. (HT Photo)

India News

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 09:45 AM IST

ByUtpal Parashar

Torchbearer of the armed forces, India’s military cradle turns 75

The National Defence Academy in India, which has produced over 42,000 officers for the Indian armed forces, celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 16, 2024

The National Defence Academy (NDA) in Pune (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

India News

Updated on Jan 16, 2024 09:26 AM IST

ByNadeem Inamdar, Pune

A voice with the stick: Germany captain Lorenz is more than just a hockey player

The 26-year-old runs a blog where she pens her thoughts about issues ranging from women empowerment, racism, gender and sexual inclusivity

Hockey

Published on Jan 15, 2024 10:53 PM IST

ByRutvick Mehta

How Kunlavut Vitidsarn is struggling to cope with pressure post world title

In 7 tournaments since that epic August evening in Copenhagen when he won the world title, the Thai is yet to reach a semi-final

In seven tournaments since that epic August evening in Copenhagen when he won the world title, the Thai is yet to reach a semi-final, losing regularly in the first two rounds.(AFP)

Badminton News

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 10:32 PM IST

BySandip Sikdar

Doing diplomacy with patience in Maldives

Strained Delhi-Malé relations will boost Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean

Chinese President Xi Jinping with Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu, in Beijing,(PTI)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 10:01 PM IST

ByShyam Saran

Taiwan verdict reflects anti-China sentiment

It might be time now for India to shed these “hesitations of history” to script a bolder inning with Taiwan.

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, center, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, right, and supporters in Taipei, Taiwan.(AP)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:55 PM IST

ByHarsh V Pant, Kalpit Mankikar

Better infrastructure can improve learning outcomes

Efficient WASH facilities in schools are imperative in improving hygiene and sanitation facilities to keep the environment clean and keep children in school

The design of appropriate basic school infrastructure for clean water, and toilets, is thus conducive to ensuring what one could call “ease of living and learning” among children. (HT Photo)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:54 PM IST

ByRajesh Rangarajan

The missing winter snow

Climate crisis manifests in the absence of snow in the mountains this winter. The economic consequences can be huge

Tangmarg: Tourists walk on a snow-covered road after a fresh snowfall, in Tangmarg, Jammu and Kashmir, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (PTI Photo)(PTI12_17_2023_000224A)(PTI)

Editorials

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 09:50 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Message in Milind Deora’s resignation

There is a larger crisis in the Congress that Deora has rightly flagged — the party's leadership in Maharashtra.

Former Congress Leader Milind Deora joined the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde fraction) on Sunday.(ANI)

Editorials

Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:48 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Weird Science | How X-59 could break the sound barrier without too much sound

NASA and Lockheed Martin recently unveiled the X-59 aircraft that aims to conquer one of the key issues with supersonic aircraft- a sonic boom

The experimental quiet supersonic aircraft X-59, a collaboration of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and NASA, is seen parked in a hangar in Palmdale, California, U.S. December 12, 2023. Lockheed Martin/Garry Tice/Handout via REUTERS. (via REUTERS)

Aligarh Muslim University: Tradition, modern and the ‘new’

As a seven-judge bench decides the status of the university as a minority institution, a look at its legacy in the past and in the present

India News

Published on Jan 15, 2024 09:21 PM IST

ByAmir Ali

In Binnu ka Sapna, an Indian man comes face to face with his toxic masculinity

Kanu Behl’s award-winning short film is a meditation on the lessons men learn as children watching their angry fathers and placatory mothers.

Kanu Behl behind the camera with lead actor Chetan Sharma, who plays the eponymous Binnu, sitting on a scooter in a behind-the-scenes shot during the filming of Binnu ka Sapna(Author)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 11:44 PM IST

BySanjukta Sharma

Sena versus Sena: Final round between Thackeray and Shinde begins

On the legal front, the SC’s decision will be the clincher, for the political front, the upcoming elections will give the leaders their mandate

Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray(File)

Mumbai

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 08:34 PM IST

ByShailesh Gaikwad

China’s stake in Maldives leaves little room for diplomacy with India

Though India has had deeper historical and cultural ties with Male, China made rapid inroads into the island country with its infrastructure projects

World News

Published on Jan 15, 2024 08:14 PM IST

BySutirtho Patranobis

For Kohli and Rohit, reinvention is the name of the game

Focusing on intent, and not just returns, seems to have unshackled India’s top-order batting

Cricket

Published on Jan 15, 2024 02:24 PM IST

BySomshuvra Laha

The key to peace in West Asia lies in Gaza

Washington must signal to Tel Aviv that its support cannot be unconditional. That could calm the Red Sea, and perhaps a global economy.

Israel-Hamas war: A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 10, 2023.(AP)

Editorials

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 12:38 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Kharge as face is INDIA’s gain

The Cong chief is a politically smart choice as chairman of the Opposition bloc. But his party should be willing to give him a free rein

Editorials

Published on Jan 15, 2024 12:33 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Musician who deeply thought about her art

Prabha Atre passed away on Saturday. In the words of music critic Mohan Nadkarni, she was an avant-garde musician alongside Kishori Amonkar and Kumar Gandharva

Born on September 13, 1932 in Pune, Prabha Atre trained in the “guru-shishya” tradition, known as the “Gurukul” system, by the two stalwarts of the Kirana Gharana — the late Pandit Sureshbabu Mane and his sister Padmabhushan Hirabai Badodekar. (HT FILE)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 12:27 PM IST

ByKunal Ray

Battle for clean air has a long way to go

National clean air plan has made only limited progress. More funds, targeted utilisation can improve its impact

The Supreme Court said that people living in all parts of the country and not only those living in the Delhi-NCR (national capital region) are entitled to breathe clean air and a pollution-free environment. (PTI)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 12:27 PM IST

ByAarti Khosla

In the Ayodhya euphoria, politics comes full circle

The UP government had left no stone unturned in adorning Ayodhya. Is the Vatican for Hindus on the horizon?

Underconstruction Ram temple in Ayodhya. (Sourced)(HT_PRINT)

Opinion

Published on Jan 15, 2024 12:27 PM IST

ByShashi Shekhar

A requiem for ULFA

ULFA’s settlement agreement with the government marks the end of a turbulent phase in Assam’s history

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with members of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) during signing of a peace accord between ULFA and the central and Assam governments, in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI)

Opinion

Updated on Jan 15, 2024 10:56 AM IST

BySanjib Baruah

Empower women in emerging tech fields

India, with its considerable expertise in all new technologies, can take many steps to build equal access to them for women

Many experts have hailed AI as a creator of opportunities to override tasks which have an inbuilt bias, such as hiring for the workplace or performance evaluation(Shutterstock)

Opinion

Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:25 PM IST

ByLalita Panicker

Murli Manohar Joshi at 90: The storied journey of a politician

Dr Murli Manohar Joshi is the kind of political leader — rare to find these days — with whom one can talk on a range of issues apart from politics.

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi.(Hindustan Times)

Opinion

Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:20 PM IST

ByPavan K Varma

At Heathrow, you are always in the queue

What happened at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3 on the evening of December 23 cannot — indeed must not — be forgiven.

Passengers are seen waiting for delayed flights in London's Heathrow airport. (AP)

Opinion

Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:18 PM IST

ByKaran Thapar

Book Box: William Dalrymple: The man with a foot in both camps

The founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival on growing up in Scotland and why you should go to the JLF

William Dalrymple( ( pic courtesy William Dalrymple)

Books

Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:13 PM IST

BySonya Dutta Choudhury

Guest practices: Towns around the world are turning tourists politely away

Is there a way to save a place from its own beauty before it is all gone? We could learn from approaches in use in Venice, Vermont, Austria, Athens, Mallorca.

Tourists at the Acropolis, which is set to cap the number of visitors at 20,000 a day. (AP)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 13, 2024 03:42 PM IST

ByAnesha George

I wish there was more of the Delhi I knew, on celluloid: Poonam Saxena

A certain long-gone Mumbai is preserved in movie after movie. One must hunt much harder, to revisit the Capital of the ’50s to ’70s.

A rain-soaked Mumbai gleams with nostalgic beauty, in Basu Chatterji’s Manzil (1979); a world both familiar and yet so different can be revisited in his Baton Baton Mein (1979).

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 13, 2024 03:30 PM IST

ByPoonam Saxena

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The classical musician passed away on January 9, but his Hindi and Bengali film music will continue to enthrall generations of listeners

Four women employed in an illegal call centre have been interrogated by police. The staff posed as telemarketers for US-based online pharmaceutical companies

India’s so-called multidimensional poverty fell from 29.17% in 2013-14, when the Modi government assumed power, to 11.28% in 2022-23

The government of India, government of Assam, and the pro-talks faction of Ulfa signed a historic agreement for permanent peace in Assam.

The National Defence Academy in India, which has produced over 42,000 officers for the Indian armed forces, celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 16, 2024

The 26-year-old runs a blog where she pens her thoughts about issues ranging from women empowerment, racism, gender and sexual inclusivity

In 7 tournaments since that epic August evening in Copenhagen when he won the world title, the Thai is yet to reach a semi-final

Strained Delhi-Malé relations will boost Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean

It might be time now for India to shed these “hesitations of history” to script a bolder inning with Taiwan.

Efficient WASH facilities in schools are imperative in improving hygiene and sanitation facilities to keep the environment clean and keep children in school

Climate crisis manifests in the absence of snow in the mountains this winter. The economic consequences can be huge

There is a larger crisis in the Congress that Deora has rightly flagged — the party's leadership in Maharashtra.

NASA and Lockheed Martin recently unveiled the X-59 aircraft that aims to conquer one of the key issues with supersonic aircraft- a sonic boom

As a seven-judge bench decides the status of the university as a minority institution, a look at its legacy in the past and in the present

Kanu Behl’s award-winning short film is a meditation on the lessons men learn as children watching their angry fathers and placatory mothers.

On the legal front, the SC’s decision will be the clincher, for the political front, the upcoming elections will give the leaders their mandate

Though India has had deeper historical and cultural ties with Male, China made rapid inroads into the island country with its infrastructure projects

Focusing on intent, and not just returns, seems to have unshackled India’s top-order batting

Washington must signal to Tel Aviv that its support cannot be unconditional. That could calm the Red Sea, and perhaps a global economy.

The Cong chief is a politically smart choice as chairman of the Opposition bloc. But his party should be willing to give him a free rein

Prabha Atre passed away on Saturday. In the words of music critic Mohan Nadkarni, she was an avant-garde musician alongside Kishori Amonkar and Kumar Gandharva

National clean air plan has made only limited progress. More funds, targeted utilisation can improve its impact

The UP government had left no stone unturned in adorning Ayodhya. Is the Vatican for Hindus on the horizon?

ULFA’s settlement agreement with the government marks the end of a turbulent phase in Assam’s history

India, with its considerable expertise in all new technologies, can take many steps to build equal access to them for women

Dr Murli Manohar Joshi is the kind of political leader — rare to find these days — with whom one can talk on a range of issues apart from politics.

What happened at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3 on the evening of December 23 cannot — indeed must not — be forgiven.

The founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival on growing up in Scotland and why you should go to the JLF

Is there a way to save a place from its own beauty before it is all gone? We could learn from approaches in use in Venice, Vermont, Austria, Athens, Mallorca.

A certain long-gone Mumbai is preserved in movie after movie. One must hunt much harder, to revisit the Capital of the ’50s to ’70s.

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