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Karan Thapar spoke to former High Commissioner to Islamabad T.C.A. Raghavan to discuss how concerned India should be about Pakistan's constitutional, political and economic crises. Read the full text. https://t.co/MSSGAyIxdy

One of the four cheetah cubs born in Kuno died on Tuesday, May 23, the Madhya Pradesh forest department said. The cub was weak, and the runt of the litter of four that cheetah Jwala gave birth to in the last week of March this year https://t.co/LAadOzHHMF

There are increasing instances of the misuse of the law, especially against persons who are vocal critics of the government and its policies, and those who raise issues of the poor and oppressed sections of society, the letter said. https://t.co/QbFpjW2ZuO

'These faded clothes whimper their secrets to each other.'' Read Revika Sangamita's poem for @livewire https://t.co/N6NyIuAfsc

Mamata Banerjee said that the forthcoming vote in Rajya Sabha to convert the ordinance on control of services in Delhi into law will be a "semi-final before the 2024 elections". https://t.co/Bsp0GihcKM

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar squandered no time in meeting Kejriwal, along with his deputy and RJD leader Tejaswhi Yadav, JD(U) national president Lallan Singh and RJD spokesman Manoj Jha, to amplify his support for Kejriwal. | @NalinAnant https://t.co/78WPekXLsG

Why are criminals called ‘Goonda', 'Mafia' or 'Don’? How and when did these terms enter our common lingo and legal discourse? In what context did they first begin to be used and what connotation do they bear now? | Krishan Pratap Singh https://t.co/p5vvoy4JEQ

Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to hold talks with his Australian counterpart on Wednesday. That same evening, the Parliament House in Canberra is going to be the venue for the screening. https://t.co/l1Z7KTt8hL

A part of Alan Morinis's 1979 PhD thesis was edited to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in Hooghly district of West Bengal. There is no conclusive evidence for this claim, he tells @thewire_in | @AjoyAshirwad https://t.co/ITLulCQ975

That the gaudy pink unwanted child, born out of the whimsical demonetisation of high-value currencies in November 2016, would have to die early was always expected, writes @sritara. https://t.co/BjgnBNNdFd

Perhaps PM Modi can win the global sweepstakes in dress-jockeying with his unabashed and nonchalant sartorial swings which he has proclaimed to be his own insignia and brand, writes Vrinda Gopinath. https://t.co/fMXG7dx2HU

#Listen | In a podcast discussion with @bombaywallah, Congress leader @salman7khurshid said the party's performance was due to both the impact of Bharat Jodo Yatra and the local unit of the party. https://t.co/g4DW4NjpU3

On the occasion of Hamid Dalwai’s 46th death anniversary, @thewire_in reflects on his remarkable contributions and contemplates how he would have perceived present-day India. https://t.co/uiU3EJCOiV

Leaders of the G7 countries in Hiroshima pledged to restrict trade in Russian diamonds — worth $4-5 billion a year — including using high-tech methods of tracing to further obstruct Moscow’s war against Ukraine. https://t.co/8uGnSvTyMi

#Books | The greatest challenge that every one of us who works with the juvenile justice system faces is keeping the balance between being fair to both the CICL (child in conflict with the law) and the victim, writes @enakshi_G. https://t.co/KoAi2eiSvX

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle. https://t.co/iABX8RyTJI

After the recurrence of violence in Manipur on Sunday night and during the day on Monday, the situation in the state remains tense, writes @aliyaqut. https://t.co/ee8lpx8zOr

The much-anticipated G20 meeting started in Srinagar on a controversial note after five members of the powerful grouping, stayed away from the gathering, writes @Gaamuk. https://t.co/m1FdashEjY

Recently, convicted gangster Mukhtar Ansari filed an application in a local court in UP asking the media not to use words like 'bahubali' and 'don' with his name. But how did these words become part of common parlance? https://t.co/p5vvoy4JEQ

#Politics | Karnataka’s loss is a huge jolt to its top leadership represented by PM Narendra Modi and Shah who relentlessly employed all kinds of strategies to win one state after another in large parts of the country, writes S.N. Sahu. https://t.co/XqVeAkdbKy