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Most times we forget there is also Himachal Pradesh in the Union. Tucked between Punjab and the high Himalayas, largely Hindu–dominated with a burgeoning Muslim-led demographic change. This is a state nestling in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, a paradise on earth largely gone unnoticed because the pure-driven snow hasn’t so far been shaken and stirred by the rip-roar of too many contentious issues.

The truth is now in the public domain. While admiring “Nari Shakti (women’s power) on August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Narendra Modi resorted to uncanny act of concealing the fact that 11 rapists of Bilkis Begum and killers of her seven family members would be released the same day at the direction of the home ministry of Amit Shah. Bilkis Bano was five months pregnant when she was gang-raped during the riots of 2002. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.

Gurugram: 2016 champion Aditi Ashok led home contigrent has enough fire power to surprise the strong international challang iat the US$400,000 Hero Women’s Indian Open which tees off at the DLF Golf & Country Club on Thursday.

India is among the worst countries in the world where children are facing severe child food poverty, the latest UNICEF data reveals. Severe child food poverty is reaching dire levels, 1 in 3 children under five live in it globally, but in 13 countries, situation was worse with more than 2 in 5. India was one of 13 in 2021 where the level of child food poverty was above 40 per cent.

The Supreme Court of India has added very little to its credibility by holding a special sitting on a most uncommon Saturday morning and setting aside the Bombay High Court order for the release of human rights activist G N Saibaba, the wheel-chair bound former Delhi University professor, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for alleged Maoist connections.

The Bharatiya Janata Party could not be in a worse place than in Nagpur in the state ruled by the BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance. The saffron party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be stewing in their juices when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra makes a triumphant November entry into Maharashtra. And this, soon after the BJP got blanked out in the Nagpur panchayat samiti polls.

Gurugram: Defending champion Christine Wolf, former winners Camille Chevalier, Aditi Ashok, challangers Meghan MacLaren and Tvesa Malik will lead the fierecely combatitive star studded field at the Hero Women's Indian Open which tees off at DLF Golf and Country Club here on Thrusday as the Ladies European Tour returns to India after three years away.

New Delhi: Mahalingam Kandhavel upset the top seed Tejas Ahuja, 6-4, 6-1 while in the girls section top seed Asmi Nihar Adkar faced no problem in making the short work of Saily Prash Thakkar 6-0, 6-0 in the second round of the (U-16) Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship here on Tuesday.

There’s ample historical precedent for Donald Trump and the MAGA GOP embracing far-right, if not outright fascist, European politicians. Their latest hero is Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s likely new prime minister.

As academics and the media recall and reassess the Cuban missile crisis sixty years on, their focus will primarily be on the two superpowers — the United States and the USSR — that seemingly came close to nuclear war. However, it is also timely to reconsider those who found themselves in the middle of the would-be conflict: the Cuban leaders, whose willingness to accept Soviet missiles triggered the crisis in the first place, and the ordinary Cuban people, as the reality of the threat dawned on them.