Once a Surat diamond heiress, this 9-yr-old is now a Jain nun living in a ‘bubble-like sansaar’

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Nine-year-old Devanshi, now known as Sadhvi Digantpragnashreeji | Praveen Jain/ThePrint

Jain children in Surat are leaving academics, love for K-pop, stuffed toys behind. As monks and nuns, they’re choosing white robes, shaved heads, and one meal a day, reports Monami Gogoi

Ukraine employs Javelins, Stingers, Howitzers, HIMARS, and mines to inflict resounding defeat on Russia in the coal town of Vuhledar, reports Suchet Vir Singh

Celebrities such as Nutan, Sharmila Tagore, and Rekha were patrons of the silk shop. Recently, Alia Bhatt and Bhumi Pednekar patronised its collections too, reports Nutan Manmohan

Sangh has captured different institutions of India, Congress leader says. Press, judiciary, Parliament, Election Commission are under pressure & threat, he adds, reports Ishadrita Lahiri

BJP-IPFT combine in Tripura won a clear majority with 33 seats, but deeper analysis shows its victory margin over Left-Congress in 18 seats was less than vote share of TIPRA Motha, reports Amogh Rohmetra

Seeing me drive on this 10-lane road in a powerful German-built convertible with the roof down, you could have said I was in the American north-east, writes Kushan Mitra

To better integrate Indian Muslims, the totem of separatism, Muslim Personal Law, needs radical reform. And the process must begin with an overhaul of AMU’s power structure, writes Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Not all invasions went from India/Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia. The Malayan rulers of Tambralinga tried to establish an empire across the seas, writes Anirudh Kanisetti

When one tries to gauge which really is the fastest-growing large economy, story line can change based on period chosen for study. So one should be cautious about projections for future, writes TN Ninan