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India’s move to restart tourist visas for Bangladeshis will help heal rift between the neighbours
On Thursday, Dinesh Trivedi, India’s newly appointed High Commissioner, who had presented his credentials to the Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin only hours earlier, made an announcement nearly two years in the making. He said tourist visas for Bangladeshi citizens would resume. Applications will open on Sunday, processed across five centres in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Sylhet,…
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How lifting weights can help us live longer
Strength training has long been seen as something you mainly do to build muscle or look good. But a new study adds to a growing body of evidence that shows lifting weights does far more than change how we look. It may help us live longer – even if you don’t spend hours each day…
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Female cannibals: What’s behind the emerging horror fiction trend?
There’s a new trend in horror fiction: the female cannibal. In Monika Kim’s The Eyes are the Best Part (2025), a college student eats the eyeballs of the men who fetishise her. In Delilah S Dawson’s Bloom (2023), the love interest, who appears to be living a fantasy version of cottage life, is actually including…
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Delhi blast case: NIA names three more accused in supplementary chargesheet
The National Investigation Agency has named three more persons in a supplementary chargesheet in connection with the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, ANI reported on Saturday. This takes the total number of persons named in the chargesheet to 13. The supplementary chargesheet names three residents of Jammu and Kashmir: Zameer Ahmad Ahanger, Tufail…
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US sanctions Chhattisgarh explosives firm and its owner for alleged role in Sudan civil war
An Indian citizen and his Chhattisgarh-based explosives manufacturing company are among eight persons and entities sanctioned by the United States on Friday for their alleged links to procurement and recruitment networks accused of fuelling the civil war in Sudan. The civil war in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed…
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How a son’s discovery of his father’s army dispatches from World War Two became a book
My father died in his sleep on August 24, 2011, in Bangalore. He was a formal man – not given to easy confession, conversations about difficult personal matters requiring what he called a “special sitting”. It was only after his death that I truly came to know him. In the weeks that followed, my brother…
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Maharashtra teacher eligibility test postponed after alleged paper leak
The Maharashtra government on Saturday postponed the Teacher Eligibility Test 2026 after parts of the question paper were allegedly leaked a day before the examination. The exam was scheduled to be held on Sunday at 1,028 centres across the state. In a statement, the Maharashtra State Council of Examination said that it had put in…