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UP temples reverberate with ‘Har Har Mahadev’ as devotees throng shrines on Sawan Monday

Lucknow: Temples across Uttar Pradesh reverberated with chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bam Bam Bhole’ as large numbers of devotees and kanwariyas thronged Shiva shrines on the second Monday of the holy month of Sawan, officials said. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed Rudrabhishek and a ‘havan’ at the Gorakhnath temple on Monday afternoon to…

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Protest or Provocation?

MS Shanker There is a growing need to distinguish between a genuine democratic protest and a politically engineered confrontation masquerading as a student movement. The distinction is not difficult to make if the entire evidence available in the public domain—including live television footage, CCTV recordings, police video, social-media posts and investigative findings—is examined objectively. A…

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The Handicapper’s Illusion

In 1973, psychologist Paul Slovic ran an experiment on eight professional horse race handicappers that has become a fixture in behavioural finance research. The design was simple. The implications for anyone who equates more research with better decisions are not. The Setup Slovic worked with men who handicapped races for a living, not casual bettors….

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India’s banking clean-up

M Radha Madhavi India’s banking sector today tells a striking before-and-after story. A decade ago, banks—particularly public sector banks—were weighed down by a mountain of stressed and hidden loans. Today, their balance sheets are considerably healthier, capital positions stronger and the level of bad loans has fallen to a historic low. The transformation did not…

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Can’t delink oppn demand for Shah’s statement on police ‘atrocities’, PM’s on donation ‘theft’: Cong

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday said the opposition’s demand for statements by Home Minister Amit Shah on alleged police brutalities against students and by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Ram temple donation “theft” on the floor of the House cannot be delinked in a last-ditch effort by the government to break opposition unity….

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