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Trust, distrust converge in Ayodhya amid Ram Mandir donation theft case

The controversy has become a test case in the decades-long debate over private control of temples in India and the first major challenge to what became the nerve centre for Hindutva.

Updated 11 hours ago

All that’s on your plate isn’t healthy: FDA crackdowns force a reckoning

FDA commissioner Tukaram Mundhe says not all food is adulterated, but consumers cannot be certain unless it complies with food safety norms.

Updated 1 day ago

‘My mother had started planning my funeral’: The Norway coach who cheated death

Stale Solbakken, Head Coach of Norway, attends a training session. (Getty Images via AFP)

Updated 2 days ago

‘If people care for Delhi, they’ll shift to EVs’: CM Rekha Gupta

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

Updated 8 days ago

El Niño to amplify in coming months, likelihood of extreme weather events: WMO

El Niño events typically occur every two to seven years and usually last between nine and twelve months. (iStock | Representative)

Updated 9 days ago

Why AAIB’s AI-171 investigation faces a major crisis of confidence

Wreckage of the crashed Air India plane AI-171 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (PTI File)

Updated 11 days ago

New role for man’s best friend: Detecting cancer

Currently the canine olfaction technology needs a dog to express what it’s smelling and a trained human to analyse what the dog’s communicating. (Dognosis)

Published 13 days ago

Messi, Mbappe, Haaland: Many shades of genius in World Cup golden boot race

AP Photo

Updated 19 days ago

How Marathi plays Shivaji Underground, Sangeet Devabhabhli are reshaping theatre

How two Marathi plays – ‘Shivaji Underground’ and ‘Sangeet Devabhabhli’ -- are reshaping the stage

Updated 22 days ago

The last army standing

Mumbai, India - September 20, 2019: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray interact media after meeting with all shiv sena ministers at Sena Bhavan, Dadar in Mumbai, India, on Friday, September 20, 2019. (Photo by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times) (Satish Bate/HT Photo)

Updated 23 days ago

From Messi to Mbappe: The joy of the GOAT debate

France's forward Kylian Mbappe. (AFP)

Updated 25 days ago

Naxalbari | Marx, Mao, Majumdar and a town that birthed insurgency

A memorial in Naxalbari dedicated to communists Karl Max, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Lin Biao and Naxal leader Charu Majumdar. (HT Photo)

Published 28 days ago

Looking for love: Delhi zoo seeks partners for its 20 wild singles

Blue and Yellow Macaws Birds getting a shower on a harsh sunny afternoon at Delhi Zoo in New Delhi, India, on Friday, April 24, 2026.

Updated 29 days ago

The tech-enabled rich face is here

Thanks to new-age surgeries, biologics and chemicals, people, especially the rich, have started to look different after they age and they’re flaunting this rich face. (Reuters/ Representative photo)

Updated 30 days ago

One year of Air India crash that killed 260: No cause, no closure

Aircraft debris at the crash site of Air India’s AI171 flight in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on June 12, 2025. (Bloomberg)

Updated 31 days ago

Désiré Doué, France’s man for the big stage

French forward Désiré Doué at a training session before the FIFA World Cup.

Updated 34 days ago

The making of an urban absurdity

The Mira-Bhayandar bridge in Mumbai.

Published 35 days ago

Seeing Mumbai beyond skyline and landmarks

Writer Shormistha Mukherjee with Joe Vessaokar, the famed jazz and brass trumpeter from Bazaar Road, Bandra, whose story she is chronicling for her next ‘Pudding’ volume.

Updated 36 days ago

Maharashtra government bets on ₹16.7 lakh crore data centre push

State government bets on <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>16.7 lakh crore data centre push

Updated 37 days ago

Top cops who fought Mumbai’s underworld chronicle its history

Top cops who fought Mumbai’s underworld chronicle its history

Published 43 days ago

Fuel switches and the competing theories in Air India Dreamliner crash probe

A fire offical stands next to the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in Ahmedabad, India, June 13, 2025. (REUTERS)

Published 44 days ago

Unpacking nutrition science behind the sub-2 marathon

Kenyan marathon record-breaker Sabastian Sawe (left) delivers a speech in Nairobi. (AP)

Published 45 days ago

The relevance of people’s poet Narayan Surve, 100 years on

The relevance of people’s poet Narayan Surve, 100 years on

Updated 47 days ago

Restless Tibet recalls decades of exile

In Dharamsala, the seat of the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile after he fled into India in 1959 along with thousands of followers, the agreement is seen as a forced treaty which they do not recognise. (REUTERS)

Updated 51 days ago

Maharashtra's Latur, epicentre of NEET leak, confronts unwelcome scrutiny

Six of the 10 accused arrested so far in the NEET probe are from Maharashtra.

Updated 53 days ago

India’s 1st underwater warship museum: INS Guldar submerged off Sindhudurg coast

India’s first underwater warship museum takes shape as INS Guldar successfully submerged off Sindhudurg coast

Published 54 days ago

Family man Aaron Rai’s skills changing the stereotype of golf champions

Aaron Rai poses with The Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club. (AFP)

Updated 55 days ago

Dunagiri, Agray & Sanshodhak: Indian Navy to induct three indigenous vessels

Dunagiri, the fifth stealth frigate under the <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>45,000-crore Project 17A programme, is expected to be commissioned within a month.

Published 56 days ago

Stench of neglect: Citizens gasp for clean air around Kanjurmarg landfill

iiMumbai, India - May 09, 2026: Sanjay Yelve 52 years old, Petitioner, pollution and odour emitting from Kanjurmarg dumping site in suburban eastern Mumbai affecting lakhs of residentsin suburban eastern Mumbai affecting lakhs of residents in Mulund, Vikhroli and Bhandup in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, May 09, 2026. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated 57 days ago

Heat, moisture, wind shear came together to brew deadly UP storm

The immediate trigger, as IMD director general M Mohapatra noted on Thursday, was a passing western disturbance compounded by an unusually strong moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal (PTI)

Updated 58 days ago

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