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From Reddit to the clinic: The hope, hype and weight loss behind Mounjaro, Wegovy in India
November 01, 2025 12:50 pm
With a new generation of weight-loss drugs entering Indian markets, spelling hope for many, The Indian Express tracks the conversations and communities, confusion and clarity that surround those on this journey of weighing and watching
Ahmedabad plane crash: When an island loses its people
June 21, 2025 11:06 am
The Ahmedabad plane crash’s only survivor, and 14 of its dead, came from tiny Diu. That number tells a story, of a window opened by history, and doors closed by present
Cheaper fees, easy admissions: Indian medical students shift gaze towards China
July 29, 2019 11:40 pm
Sowmiya Ashok visits campuses and finds that this journey to a medical degree comes with its share of anxieties — language hurdles, uncertain career options back home. Besides, a lingering concern: how much noodles can one eat?
Bringing up baby: Next chapter of abandoned 2-year-old 'Gudiya'
June 30, 2019 6:43 pm
Lying abandoned for four days in a field, a two-year-old fought stab wounds, heat, rain, hunger, thirst and maggots. While her survival was a miracle, could the rest of her story in a child care home in west UP also turn out the same? The Indian Express on the next chapter for Gudiya
Hard Landing: After Jet's grounding, some move on, many wait and hope
June 09, 2019 4:02 pm
On April 17, Jet Airways flew its last flight, grounding what was once India’s premier private airlines and leaving thousands of employees and their families facing an uncertain future. While some of them have moved on to other jobs, many others have little option but to wait and hope.
The firewall
February 10, 2019 11:31 am
Over 14,460 bunkers are being built across border villages of Jammu and Kashmir that are often at the mercy of firing and mortar shelling from across the border. The Indian Express travels to villages along the border where these grey, concrete structures evoke hope and a few questions: “I can't take my cattle there, can I?”
Those who keep the Kumbh clean
January 20, 2019 10:24 am
Cleaning Kumbh: When the largest-ever human gathering collects at one place in Prayagraj, what does it take to get it ready for a new day? Indian Express finds out, through the Mela officials and their toilet and dustbin maths, the 20,000 sanitation workers and their stories — and a newborn
The RNG stories
January 13, 2019 1:35 pm
Ramnath Goenka awards: A celebration of India’s finest journalism of 2017.
At the Lucknow Sainik School: 'They were ready, not us'
October 28, 2018 12:56 pm
Six months after they entered the Uttar Pradesh Sainik School, in Class 9, it’s the girl ‘cadets’ who are more “settled”. They are the first ever girls to be admitted to the school, 58 years after it came up.
The girls march in
October 28, 2018 11:30 am
Half a century after they were set up in 1961, Sainik Schools have opened doors to girls. The Sunday Express meets the six 12-year-olds making history in a Mizoram village, dreaming to be soldiers, sailors and pilots, and barely sweating about it. The boys, they are catching up.
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Big Picture: Amidst Love Jihad, the story of Zahid and friends
September 21, 2014 12:32 pm
In this season of alleged ‘love jihad’, here's a story of the lone Muslim student to have returned to his school in one of Muzaffarnagar’s worst riot-hit villages and his three Hindu classmates.
Narendra Modi redefines the grammer of political rallies
March 02, 2014 1:46 pm
Narendra Modi rallies have, in recent times, gone on to become full-fledged stage productions.
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