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Asia’s largest oxbow lake is in Bihar. And it's losing fish, water, and future

Kanwar Lake, a protected site under national and global conventions, faces threats from encroachment, climate change, and inadequate rainfall
Updated on Jun 06, 2026 11:59 pm IST

In Bengal tea garden workers’ demands, a Raghav Chadha mention

West Bengal election 2026: Some tea garden workers say they want a leader like Raghav Chadha.
Updated on Apr 22, 2026 06:54 pm IST

Will ‘Modi wave’ dent ‘Didi storm’ in Bengal? A ground report from Siliguri

West Bengal election 2026: Of those approached in Siliguri, opinions were evenly split. Fifty per cent supported the TMC, while the remaining fifty per cent backed the BJP.
Updated on Apr 20, 2026 09:01 pm IST

Kolkata's Chinatown full of Mandarin election posters and muted political voices

Several parties have put up Mandarin posters and graffiti in Kolkata's Chinatown ahead of the Bengal assembly elections.
Updated on Apr 16, 2026 12:42 pm IST

Through Chitto Da's Dokan:How Kolkata is talking about Bengal elections in addas

A lot of discussions in Bengal unfold in candid bubbles where people exchange ideas, political opinions over tea, cigarettes and food - the adda hubs.
Updated on Apr 13, 2026 12:54 pm IST

'Baby of Iran': Why village in Karnataka shut down for 3 days to mourn Khamenei

Protestors held portraits of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they gathered to protest against the US-Israel attack on Iran. Protests were held from Istanbul (pictured here) to Indian cities of Lucknow and even villages in Karnataka, including Alipur, on March 1, 2026.
Updated on Mar 02, 2026 12:02 pm IST

'Names will change, regime will stay': How Iranians see life after Khamenei

Two men on a motorcycle decorated with a picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ride ahead a group of government supporters near Khamenei's residency in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in the aftermath of his confirmed death in U.S. and Israeli strikes.
Updated on Mar 01, 2026 10:16 pm IST

R-Day 2026: How people on Delhi's streets see Constitution in everyday lives

Images of people in Delhi as they speak to HT about what rights mean to them in everyday life.
Updated on Jan 26, 2026 05:43 pm IST

Chandigarh’s ‘super spreader’ cries foul, seeks to clear name

Bapudham colony became Chandigarh’s first main hotspot, accounting for almost half of the city’s positive cases to date.
Updated on May 04, 2020 10:35 pm IST

Faith in the time of terror: Ground report from Sri Lanka

Fathima Joshinka outside the boundary wall of St Sebastian’s church, Negombo, where over 100 people were killed in the Easter bombings on April 21.
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 08:21 pm IST

Air Force plane with 13 on board goes missing after taking off from Assam; search ops underway

The IAF plane took off from Jorhat in Assam at 12.27pm and was on its way to an advanced landing ground at Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district when it vanished from the radar, said an IAF spokesperson
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 08:02 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: PM Modi, Mathura’s collage of faith and social identity

The contest’s real contours will emerge with the arrival in Mathura — slated to go to the polls on April 18 — of the RLD’s Ajit Singh and Jayant Chaudhary after the April 11 voting in their constituencies of Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat.
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 08:58 am IST

‘Tolerance India’s biggest asset, unity is our speciality’: Nitin Gadkari

Making a case for tolerant India, Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the tolerance is the biggest asset of our system and unity in diversity is the specialty of our country.
Updated on Dec 24, 2018 11:42 pm IST

Cities across India defy new cracker code set by top court

Most cities across the country failed to enforce the Supreme Court order to burst firecrackers only within a two-hour window.
Published on Nov 09, 2018 12:00 am IST

Dust storm: Power likely to be restored by Tuesday evening

A dust storm is seen building up over the city of Bikaner on Monday. In a fresh advisory by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), dust storm and heavy rain likely at isolated places in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, western Rajasthan and states in North-east.
Published on May 07, 2018 09:52 pm IST