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Shefali Rafiq Srinagar, June 18 (KMS): Amir Kabir Beigh was holding his 5-year-old son in hands, tossing him up and down in the air. The face of his son was blurred. Beigh was sure, though, it would be a reflection of his own childhood. Next moment, he opened his eyes …

(The Guardian) Cheena Kapoor Phalguni Devi has spent a fortnight living in a cattle shed. Looking out on a rainy afternoon in early June, she worries that if the rain does not let up, her fever will worsen. Devi, 51, shares the shed with a cow and two cats, and …

(The Guardian) Shoaib Shafi  Shabir Hussain Khan was taking an afternoon nap when he heard a commotion outside his house. A friend had been injured playing football and had lost a lot of blood. Khan, without any transport, rushed to the hospital by foot to donate some. It was 4 …

The Wire New Delhi: Following a reveal by the Uttarakhand health department that around 400,000 COVID-19 test results issued during the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in April this year were fake, independent investigations carried out by media outlets have also revealed that this data obfuscated the real picture of the outbreak …

(The Hindu) No woman has sought appointment as priest in the temples managed by the State Devaswom boards across Kerala. According to a report by The Hindu, no woman has approached the Travancore, Cochin and Malabar Devaswom boards, which have administrative control over the nearly 2,000 temples in the State, …

Devjyot Ghoshal, Zeba Siddiqui June 15 (KMS): A veteran public health expert warned top Indian officials in early March that a new variant of the coronavirus was spreading quickly in a rural district in the heart of the country and that the outbreak required urgent attention. Federal health authorities failed …

(Bloomberg) Rajesh Kumar Singh The majestic, endangered bird is massive, making it slow to maneuver in flight. It has poor frontal vision, and an unfortunate habit of scanning the earth while flying across the flat grasslands of India’s western borders. That combination too often sets it on a fatal collision …

(N World) Taniya Dutta A storm is brewing over the picturesque Lakshadweep archipelago off India’s western coast, where the indigenous population is accusing a new administrator appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government of acting against their traditions and interests. Since taking office in December, Praful Khoda Patel …

Courtesy: The Wirenetwork New Delhi, June 13 (KMS): In an attempt to stop retired security and intelligence officials from commenting critically on issues relating to current policy, the Narendra Modi government has notified an amendment to the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules 1972 prohibiting them from communicating to the media …

 (South Asian Wire) Hindu Janjagruti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha continue to stoke sectarian tensions using Facebook pages and groups By Ayushman Kaul (DFR Lab) Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS), a subsidiary of the Sanatan Sanstha (SS), a violent and right-wing religious-nationalist cult based in India but operating internationally, developed a network on …