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As mist, rain and fresh greenery transform the Eastern Ghats, guided treks are drawing adventurers to summit trails, waterfalls and remote hill villages

Heavy rain in Himachal's Sirmaur; schools forced to shut in Paonta today

The Prime Minister landed in Australia on July 8 after completing his visit to Indonesia. From here, he is scheduled to leave for New Zealand — the last leg of his six-day, three-nation tour.

The State hopes to attract investments worth ₹6 lakh crore and build 7.5 GW of data centre capacity over the next few years, positioning itself alongside established hubs such as Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana

Veteran singer Mano goes down memory lane in a chat with The Hindu on his 40 years in film music

The Prambanan Temple is significant in Indonesia’s Hinduism, highlighting its evolution under state-mandated monotheism and religious freedom

In the exchange of fire, all five shooters were hit. They were rushed to hospital where four were declared dead. One is undergoing treatment.

While an estimated 56,000 people in Karnataka are living with HIV unknowingly, over 2 lakh are on treatment, posing a major challenge to the State’s HIV control programme

The Karnataka government issued guidelines for establishing crèche/daycare centres back in 2015. The alleged child abuse incident in a centre for Capgemini employees in Bengaluru reveals that these have remained on paper, with even a nodal agency not named to monitor them, write Shilpa Elizabeth and Rashmi Patil

Braving high seas and rough weather, fishermen along the Visakhapatnam coast weather many a storm to eke out a living. But this time, the bad weather and the high seas have swallowed six fishermen, leaving their families in dire straits, writes V. Kamalakara Rao

For years, the State’s cricket story was largely confined to Hyderabad. The inaugural TG20, its first franchise-based T20 league, is beginning to change that by offering district cricketers a platform to showcase their talent before fans, selectors and IPL scouts alike. Anirudh Velamuri explores how the tournament is opening new doors beyond the capital

Neighbourhood shops and small retailers across the country are finding the going tough with e-commerce platforms and corporate-backed large retail stores rapidly establishing their business even in rural areas. A walk along the commercial areas as well as neighbourhoods reveals the plight of those who have been struggling to cope in the digital era

The death of 14 girls from the Juang community, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, from Odisha at a seafood processing plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur has brought to the fore the socio-economic realities of marginalised tribal populations despite decades of targeted interventions. Satyasundar Barik visits the Juang villagers who lost their daughters to understand what went wrong in the development journey

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, who is in the fray, has been busy campaigning in the constituency; voters in the BJP stronghold say he will cut into the BJP’s votes

The group, which included two minors, languished in Bangladesh for over a year before it returned home; it came back through the international border in Malda district

He has been picked for the three T20Is in Zimbabwe as the second wicket-keeper batter in the side after Ishan Kishan, with Sanju Samson surprisingly left out of the squad.

Top court cites conflicting rulings on whether arrest grounds must be furnished in writing while hearing Meghalaya’s appeal against Sonam Raghuvanshi’s bail

Three youths were reportedly publicly tried, assaulted, stripped, and forcibly tonsured by a mob that accused them of supplying ganja to a schoolboy. Six persons have been arrested in connection with the incident