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Outlook Magazine - 23 August 2021
Independence Day Special
"Service providers should be restricted from entering into any arrangement, agreement or contract by whatever name called... That has the effect of discriminatory treatment based on content...,"
Ford’s updated entry-level offering likely to be launched after 2018 Auto Expo
Sharif along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz appeared in the court where Judge Mohammad Bashir conducted the hearing.
Padmavati shall not be released abroad unless there is certification by film censor board. Justice Dipak Mishra pronounced the order
Carrying arms and ammunition on board an aircraft without authorisation is banned.
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From misplaced outrage in Hadiya case over the mention of the Guardianship to SC dismissing Rakesh Asthana's plea. Read it all here...
Last week, Saeed walked free after a judicial body in Pakistan refused to extend his detention and ordered his release citing "insufficient evidence."
"Service providers should be restricted from entering into any arrangement, agreement or contract by whatever name called... That has the effect of discriminatory treatment based on content...,"
Ford’s updated entry-level offering likely to be launched after 2018 Auto Expo
Sharif along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz appeared in the court where Judge Mohammad Bashir conducted the hearing.
Padmavati shall not be released abroad unless there is certification by film censor board. Justice Dipak Mishra pronounced the order
Carrying arms and ammunition on board an aircraft without authorisation is banned.
From misplaced outrage in Hadiya case over the mention of the Guardianship to SC dismissing Rakesh Asthana's plea. Read it all here...
Last week, Saeed walked free after a judicial body in Pakistan refused to extend his detention and ordered his release citing "insufficient evidence."
OTHER STORIES
Liberalisation opened up a brave, new world to consumers. And life has never been the same again.
A bench of Justices R K Agrawal and A M Sapre said "the writ petition is dismissed".
The owner of the animals, Kamlesh, said the horses and donkey were released on Monday evening.
The court has also upheld life imprisonment of 146 soldiers convicted in the case.
From Nehru’s ‘restless gene’ to Kerala Travel Mart—a personal history of Indian tourism
Pilgrimage remains the Indian traveller’s primary motivation. But around that, everything else has changed down the decades.
Single-screen cinema to OTT, the story of PVR multiplexes and Balaji Telefilms encapsulates the trajectory of popular entertainment in post-liberalisation India
Those black dial-up phones, long wait for trunk calls are gone; India’s tele-connectivity has segued into the era of modern smart
We have come a long way from the ‘licence raj’ that followed freedom from the Raj, but family-owned businesses still dominate the scene, with fresh entrepreneurship mostly confined to services
Digitisation is changing the way Indians are doing business—from urban buyers to small sellers
The country’s bourses have ridden the waves and staved off downturns to stay on course for their record-breaking journeys
Group farming by small farmers, especially women, shows the way out of agrarian crises
For the majority of farmers, growing the country’s food brings no assurance of well-being. Seven decades after independence, swings between glut and scarcity remain largely unpredictable, making agriculture unviable for greater numbers.
Greater consumerism will create jobs, social mobility. State policy will have to keep balance alongside.
Liberalisation, with its inbuilt accountability, freed up ostentatious urges amongst the rich. But CavinKare’s C.K. Ranganathan is an outlier who would rather concentrate on giving more back to society than eye a yacht.
The last few generations of Indians have lived in an era of sweeping changes driven by passionate proselytisers of the market’s hidden hand—our seven finance ministers since 1991
Headlines from around the world last week
Odisha has to be commended for supporting the Indian hockey team. But passion for the game as well as infrastructure is stuck in just one district.
“Of hundreds of journalists in Manipur, (ask yourself) why are these two arrested every time? Talking about cow urine at a time of someone’s death is beyond morality and humanity.”
Quite remarkable, actually, that such a clarification was needed. But then this is Karnataka, where most BJP worthies are from the Janata or Congress—as HDK was happy to point out.
The manifesto was a painkiller, but reality will be a migraine for the ordinary Tamil. FM Palanivel Thiaga Rajan blames the AIADMK and hints at higher living costs all around.
Mental fitness is as important as pitch-perfect physical form. I managed the second—despite jet lag—only because of the year’s delay in the Olympics. And the former? Thank Klaus!
A Rajput in charge of JD(U), another in charge of RJD, a Brahmin at the helm in Congress. What exactly is brewing in the homeland of Mandal and OBC politics?
In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week
Here’s looking back at our surreal contrasts—the broken bridge between our dollar millionaires and poor millions, between our food sufficiency and farm suicides. Our I-Day package.
