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AK Merchant Recent reports suggesting that Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is setting the hypothetical ‘Doomsday Clock’ to 85 seconds to midnight, meaning closer to a global catastrophe, have triggered a variety of responses from geopolitical commentators. Bahá’í interpretation treats apocalyptic imagery – tribulation, Day of Judgment, cosmic signs – as symbolic of spiritual and…
School holidays extended in J&K till July 26 As the southwest monsoon strengthens across northern India, school operations are beginning to reflect the changing weather. Jammu and Kashmir has extended school holidays till July 26, while neighbouring Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand remain on alert as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast widespread rainfall across…
Nepali PM Balen Shah had raised up the issue of border with India, including Lipulekh. NEW DELHI: Nepal has apparently lost the decades-old original of the 1816 Treaty of Sugauli, a document that largely defined the Himalayan nation’s boundaries with British India, its foreign minister Shisir Khanal told Parliament on Monday.Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal told…
NEW DELHI: A six-year-old girl was killed and her grandmother injured after the e-rickshaw they were travelling in collided with a car and overturned in west Delhi’s Janakpuri, officials said on Thursday. Recounting the incident, the grandmother told news agency PTI that the two had just begun their routine journey to the child’s school when…
Air navigation across the United Arab Emirates has returned to normal, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) confirmed, marking a restoration of regular flight operations after a brief but significant disruption triggered by regional security concerns, as per WAM news agency. According to the news service, the GCAA announced that all temporary precautionary measures imposed…
Melanie Watson Bernhardt had this way of lighting up a room, even after her condition. She grabbed hearts back in the 80s as Kathy Gordon on Diff’rent Strokes, Arnold’s buddy in four sweet episodes. Born in 1968 in Dana Point, California, she faced osteogenesis imperfecta—brittle bone disease-from day one, but that never stopped her from…
More than a decade ago, when Masooma Ranalvi first spoke publicly about being subjected to khatna (the local term for female genital mutilation or FGM) at age seven, she helped push the practice within the Dawoodi Bohra community in India into the national spotlight. As the SC resumes hearings in the long-pending case in which…
Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming film ‘Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata’ will bring to screen the story of Anjali Kulthe, a nurse at Mumbai’s Cama Hospital who helped save 20 pregnant women during the 26/11 terror attacks. The film revisits a lesser-known chapter from the night of November 26, 2008, when terrorists entered the hospital after attacking key locations…
MLK Day 2026: Will Banks, Schools, Post Offices and Markets Be Open in the US? As Americans prepare for Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, January 19, 2026, the US is once again pausing to honour the civil rights leader’s legacy. MLK Day, observed on the third Monday of January each year, is a…
Quote of the day by Adi Shankaracharya (Photo via Canva) Adi Shankaracharya was an 8th-century Indian philosopher, saint, and teacher who traveled across India, wrote commentaries on the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Brahma Sutras, and established four monastic centers (mathas) to preserve this teaching. In just about 32 years, he reshaped Hindu philosophy and left…
