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Nepal Flash Floods: 105 Indians Reported Missing, Bihar Sounds Alert Along Gandak
Nepal Flash Floods: 105 Indians Reported Missing, Bihar Sounds Alert Along Gandak
4 min read
Nearly 400 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims and travellers have lost contact after raging waters tore through Nepal’s Rasuwa district. As India joins rescue coordination, six Bihar districts are preparing ...
Dolly Parton's Smartest Business Move Was Saying No to Elvis: How the Country Legend Built a $450 Million Empire
4 min read
Dolly Parton is being remembered as the Queen of Country Music. But behind the rhinestones, wigs and chart-topping hits was one of the sharpest business minds in entertainment—an entrepreneur whose bo ...
Starc Reality vs Boom Boom Bumrah: Who is Test Cricket’s Real No. 1?
6 min read
At 36, Mitchell Starc has reached the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings for the first time after 107 Tests, 445 wickets and a 10-wicket demolition of Bangladesh. Jasprit Bumrah has slipped while in ...
Aashirvaad’s Fit Maveli: When Advertising Gave Onam a Metabolic Makeover
6 min read
Aashirvaad replaced Onam’s familiar pot-bellied king with a fitter Maveli who recommends balanced meals and exercise. The health message is playful. But the commercial mission is heavier: can atta bor ...
Before Rohit Shetty, there was Kuku Kohli: The filmmaker behind Ajay Devgn's debut and Bollywood's mass-market era
3 min read
The filmmaker who launched Ajay Devgn with Phool Aur Kaante and delivered some of the biggest commercial entertainers of the 1990s has died at 77. But why does his influence extend far beyond a single ...
A Broken Shoulder, a Local Train and a Pistol: How Suruchi Phogat Shot Her Way into the Indian Jersey
8 min read
Her father wanted her to wrestle. A shattered shoulder ended that dream before it had properly begun. At 13, Suruchi Phogat picked up a pistol and started travelling nearly 100 kilometres by train to ...
Beyond the LAC: Why India and China Are Talking About Drawing the Border, Not Just Managing It
3 min read
At a key meeting in Beijing, India and China moved the conversation beyond troop disengagement and border stability to something far more ambitious: boundary delimitation. What exactly does that mean, ...
Can Justice Go Digital? A WhatsApp Message From Dubai Helped End a 54-Year Ayodhya Land Dispute
3 min read
A property dispute that began in 1972 finally reached closure at the Supreme Court's Samadhan Samaroh. One of the key parties wasn't even in India. He was in Dubai, armed with a printer, a scanner and ...
US Visa Appointments Paused Worldwide: Is This Just Consular Training or a Bigger Immigration Reset?
4 min read
The Trump administration says the pause is needed to train consular officers. But it comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown, legal battles over visa restrictions and growing uncertainty for appli ...