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Mumbai, June 26: Muslims across Mumbai observed the 10th day of the holy Islamic month of Muharram on June 25 and 26, with tazia processions held in several parts of the city to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. Maulana Yasoob Abbas, National General Secretary of the All India…

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The official mandate of Canada’s Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) department is to build “a stronger Canada through immigration programs, citizenship services, refugee protection and issuing Canadian travel documents.” But our research shows how IRCC has become a powerful force in Canadian education policy – an area that is the responsibility of provinces and…

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The toll from an ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing and export unit near Periyapalayam in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district has risen to 15, the state government said on Thursday. Eighty-three persons were affected by the leak, which occurred on Sunday at a facility in the Kannigaipair-Manjangaranai area, the health and family welfare…

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Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust General Secretary Champat Rai and trustee Anil Mishra resigned from their posts on “moral grounds” following the alleged embezzlement of donations to the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The trust manages the temple. A day earlier, eight persons were arrested in the case. They have been booked under provisions of…

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Nasibi Shermamad Jat, 55, remembers how, as a child, she would walk to the rakhal near her village with her mother to take their buffaloes for grazing. “I plucked imli [tamarind] from the trees and collected grass during drought,” she recalls. After she got married, her visits to the rakhal continued with her husband and…

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Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 51-year-old businessman allegedly jumped off the Bandra-Worli Sea Link on Friday. The deceased, identified as Bhavesh Navinchandra Majethia, reportedly asked the taxi driver to stop on the Sea Link, citing nausea, before allegedly taking the extreme step. Despite rough sea conditions hampering rescue operations, emergency teams launched a search…

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In 1966, a 22-year-old Zoramthanga joined the Mizo National Front and started an armed struggle to secede from the Indian Union. Over the next two decades, he was on the move: India, East Pakistan, Burma and, after East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971, Rawalpindi. In 1986, the MNF ended their rebellion with the signing of…

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The Right to Information Act has been hollowed out by Indian governments over the years – most recently by way of amendments to the law through the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Transparency activists and legal experts have warned that India’s new Digital Personal Data Protection Act bars the disclosure of personal information about public…

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Canada rejected 71% of the visa applications filed by Indian citizens to watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup, CTV News reported on Wednesday. Of the 1,225 Indians who applied for the visa, only 355 were approved. Indians were the fourth-largest group to file Canadian visa applications for the football world cup, after Ghana, Colombia and…

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I was at a bar. Not drinking. Not really. Just sitting there, existing in that low hum where the world felt like skin I could peel off, head buzzing with Kishore, in my father’s voice, soft and off-key, celluloid, from back when the days didn’t feel like an ambush. And I smiled (I think), wondering…

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