The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Start Up initiative on Saturday, including an income tax break for new firms and a fund of Rs 10,000 crore.
2. Kolkata Police have arrested the son of a Trinamool Congress politician accused of having killed a solider in a hit-and-run case.
3. The Indian cricket team surprisingly has become the No 1 team in test cricket after five years, though this may be short lived.
Weekend Reads
1. Arun Janardhanan for the Indian Express visits a cattle shelter in Coimbatore to see what happens to bulls when jallikattu has been banned.
2. You might think dystopias exist in movies, writes Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker, unless, of course, you've been to Pakistan.
3. Rukmini S and Samarth Bansal in the Hindu have put together an interactive piece that tells you what India's most common names are.
4. Why has Sherlock Holmes and his small world been subjected to more analysis than any other literary character, asks Sandipan Deb in Mint?
5. Nilanjana Roy in the Business Standard tells us of a persuasive, slowly unsettling domestic novel called Ghachar Ghochar.
6. In Pakistan, the label "burger kid" is a loaded one writes Sana Maher in Al Jazeera.
7. How a team of conservationists made Karnataka’s forests a freely navigable haven for tigers, elephants and leopards, writes Padmaparna Ghosh in Mint.
8. Anjuli Bhargava in the Business Standard documents the pain of getting school admissions.
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