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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 …

Rains in early May swelled the Ganga, tossing up corpses to the river’s surface and onto its shores (Deccan Herald) Om Gaur The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second …

(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 …

(Dawn) Rafia Zakaria The world knows India through its movies. For more than a century, most of South Asia has been humming Bollywood tunes, mimicking Bollywood actors and awaiting the next blockbuster with rapt anticipation. The reach of Bollywood stretches beyond the subcontinent; diehard (and rude) American fans gang up …

(Dawn) Jawed Naqvi When Russian tanks bombarded the country’s elected deputies inside the besieged Duma, and Boris Yeltsin was declared a hero for ordering the assault, the Western world called it a triumphant moment for democracy. The states that spilled out from the demise of the USSR were flaunted as …

(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 …