“Meri beti wapas aa gayi”: 10 years after losing his 20-year-old sister Anushri, Arinjay’s family welcomes baby girl Naira and finds a new beginning in their grief

For Arinjay Jain, the arrival of his daughter in August 2026 was more than the birth of his first child. It reopened a chapter of grief that his family had carried for nearly a decade. Ten years earlier, Arinjay had lost his younger sister, Anushri, who was just 20. Her sudden death after an unexplained…

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‘My boss refused to give me leave’: Man recalls quitting his job for a 5-week Brazil trip in 1991 despite having a home loan and two young kids

Man recalls quitting his job for a 5-week Brazil trip in 1991 despite having a home loan and two young kids Sometimes, an opportunity arrives at a time when saying yes can be just as difficult as saying no. A decision that may seem straightforward from the outside can become much harder when work, family…

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“Just remember him leaving and the next time I saw him was in…”: Nimrat Kaur recalls tragic loss of her father in Kashmir and how the tragedy shaped her understanding of loss

She recalled how her father, who was serving in the Army, was taken away while returning from a duty assignment in Kashmir. Actor Nimrat Kaur has recalled the tragic loss of her father, Major Bhupender Singh, who was killed in a terror attack in Kashmir when she was 11 years old. Decades later, she spoke…

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In 1997, this Odisha man left his job and built a seed bank that hands out traditional rice varieties to farmers; years later, Debal Deb’s effort is rescuing India’s rice diversity |

In 1997, ecologist and conservation scientist Debal Deb established Vrihi, a seed bank created to conserve traditional rice varieties and revive the older practice of exchanging seeds without treating them as a commercial product. Nearly three decades later, his collection has grown to 1,480 rice landraces collected from indigenous farmers in India and from farmers…

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Meet Austin Applebee, the ‘superhuman’ teen who swam for four hours to save his family after they were swept out to sea |

On a Friday in late January, a family holiday on the Western Australian coast turned into a fight for survival. Austin Appelbee, his mother Joanne, 47, his brother Beau,12, and his sister Grace,8, were using kayaks and paddleboards hired from their hotel around noon when rough seas and wind began dragging them away from land.By…

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Why do falls become more serious with age?

It is tempting to blame the floor, the slippery surface or the uneven step. Sometimes that is exactly what happened.But falls can also reveal something happening inside the body. Harvard lists factors such as muscle weakness, gait problems, foot, knee or back pain, poor sleep, vision problems, arthritis, osteoporosis and certain neurological conditions among factors…

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