The rising cost of higher education is proving highly exclusionary

Opinion

Why education is slipping out of the grasp of India’s poor

Security personnel stand guard over voters at Magrahat Paschim, South 24 Parganas, 2 May

POLITICS

Bengal repoll sees nearly 37 per cent turnout by 11 am; voting peaceful

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Advertorial

Savings account statement explained: How to read and understand it

Can she pull off another victory? Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur on voting day

POLITICS

West Bengal: Has the ECI done enough?

All eyes now on 4 May counting after polling under heavy security

Nation

SC rejects TMC plea on counting staff, says EC free to choose personnel

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Nation

Nationwide emergency alert test on 2 May: don’t panic if your phone beeps

Rescue personnel recover the cruise boat that overturned in Bargi dam due to a sudden storm

Nation

MP boat disaster: search for 4 missing expands; 5 TN tourists among dead

Rescue underway after the under-construction bridge collapsed on the outskirts of Jammu

Nation

Jammu bridge collapse: Three dead, engineers suspended, probe ordered

Ghanaian President John D. Mahama

World

Ghana rejects US health deal over data privacy, seeks revised terms

Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, 1 May

World

White House claims Iran hostilities ‘terminated’, sidesteps 1 May war powers deadline

On 24 April, 100 of the world's hottest cities were all in India, as per @WeatherMonitors

Opinion

A towering inferno of bad policies

Salem Dharanidharan

POLITICS

‘Delimitation must move beyond numbers’

Punjab chief minister and AAP leader Bhagwant Mann

POLITICS

High drama, higher stakes: Mann government clears confidence test