In focus, 27th Mar 2021, News & Stories from India

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27 Mar 2021

In focus, 27 Mar 2021

Bengaluru’s Car Doctor, Balaji Mohan Helps Motorheads Turn Their Passion into Profitable Businesses

DrWheelz has tripled its team strength in FY 2020-21 and eyeing launching franchises across 6 states soon

27 Mar 2021 8:30 PM

Atul Goyal and Lalit Singh Devra becoming inspiration for future generations

They have been on their course for an all-inclusive period without being redirected even once

27 Mar 2021 8:25 PM

The lawyer who stood tall in face of adversity: Goolam Vahanvati

When it comes to the pioneer lawyers that India has had, Goolam Vahanvati is among the first few names that cross our minds

27 Mar 2021 8:21 PM

Pagglait’s setting, its characters, their sadness, banter, rituals, hypocrisy, everything rings true and has familiar familial warmth.

Pagglait review: There is life after some deaths

Bist has a firm grip on how the rituals of bereavement are played out by relatives in Indian families

27 Mar 2021 4:27 PM

Paramilitary jawans guard as people wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station during the first phase of West Bengal Assembly elections, at Chandrapur in Lalgarh, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (PTI)

Sporadic violence marks first phase of West Bengal polls

54.90 per cent of 73.80 lakh voters exercise their franchise till 1 pm in 30 seats where polling is underway for first phase

27 Mar 2021 1:54 PM

The cause of the fire is being investigated, officials said. (Image: Twitter/@rits70)

500 shops gutted in fire at Pune's Fashion Street, nobody hurt

The fire had broken out around 11 pm on Friday, officials said, adding that nobody was injured in the incident

27 Mar 2021 11:40 AM

Sachin Tendulkar tests positive for COVID-19, in home isolation

The former India captain confirmed the news on his social media handle

27 Mar 2021 11:28 AM

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus infection at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (AFP)

India records 62,258 new infections today, highest single day rise so far this year

Registering a steady increase for the 17th day in row, India's recovery rate has further dropped to 94.85%

27 Mar 2021 11:19 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and other dignitaries on his arrival at the National Day programme of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. (PTI)

I was jailed for Bangladesh: Prime Minister Modi

The high-profile visit of PM Modi began on a stormy note, with four supporters of hardline Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam being shot dead

27 Mar 2021 9:15 AM

The traditional view that women are unsuited to combat roles may have caused these deep-seated inhibitions about promoting women even when they are otherwise as qualified as men who take up a career in the armed forces. (Representational Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Army’s male bias: Slap on the wrist for now from SC

It is the systemic discrimination that works against women in the Army and Navy that must be dismantled

27 Mar 2021 4:56 AM

Tata Group stocks gained sharply, rising between 2 to 6 per cent after a favourable Supreme Court verdict. (Photo: AFP)

TATA stocks raise after Supreme Court verdict

As the SC upheld Tata Sons’ decision to remove Cyrus Mistry as the chairman of Tata Sons, shares of Tata Group companies started gaining

27 Mar 2021 4:49 AM

There are other ways in which BoJo’s government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over ‘legal’ graft, dodging of tax & the ‘nanny state’

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have contemplated or proposed

27 Mar 2021 4:46 AM

Whether people and voters will see through the BJP’s cynical use of diplomacy for electoral gain or lap it up as realpolitik will be known only on May 2. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | National interests hurt if politics, diplomacy mixed

India-Bangladesh relations get impacted by the BJP’s divisive and majoritarian politics, over illegal immigrants and citizenship

27 Mar 2021 4:25 AM

The SC said the Facebook post would indicate that the editor’s agony was directed against the apathy shown by the Meghalaya CM, the DGP and the Dorbal Shnong (the local tribal council) in not taking action against the culprits. (Photo: Facebook @Patricia Mukhim).

AA Edit | Free speech: A morality tale

It was refreshing to find the Supreme Court last Thursday quash an FIR against Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim

27 Mar 2021 4:17 AM

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