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Why don’t Indian women play sports? Safety concerns, lack of time

The 43-page report, titled ‘Attitudes towards women’s sports, sportswomen and women in India’, was launched by BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla in New Delhi.

BCCI began supporting Indian blind women’s cricket team only after T20 WC win: Priti Prasad

At Delhi’s India Habitat Centre, the documentary ‘Dekh Le! India’ opened with a graphic introduction to blind cricket, showing how it differs from the popular game format.

Delhi’s overlooked wildlife didn’t disappear overnight; it faded slowly

Biologist and author Neha Sinha launched her new book 'Wild Capital: Discovering Nature in Delhi' at the India International Centre on 26 February.

There’s a new guide for modern-day Hindus. It goes beyond religion

Rajmohan Gandhi's book 'Do You Know Your Hinduism?' examines Hinduism as an evolving, non-monolithic, and intellectual tradition rather than just a set of rituals.

Karan Singh on Nehru and Sardar Patel—’India might have broken into pieces without them’

Former Union Minister Karan Singh was speaking at the launch of his biography, A Statesman and a Seeker, written by Harbans Singh, at Delhi’s CD Deshmukh Auditorium.

New book champions AI-Climate nexus. It’s co-written by Amitabh Kant

Authors Siddharth Sinha and Amitabh Kant both admitted that AI's impact on an already vulnerable global climate and on resources such as land and water cannot be ignored.

Flora Indica unearths botanical drawings. They were lost to colonialism for two centuries

Flora Indica began with an astonishing discovery: More than 7,500 botanical drawings made by Indian artists were lying unnoticed in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Ramayana through Sita’s eyes, writing in ChatGPT era—Delhi celebrates Women’s Day with poetry

At an open-air gathering at the India International Centre, poets, writers and scholars reflected on womanhood, memory, ageing and agency across generations.

‘Batt Koch’ shows a Kashmiri Pandit’s journey home. Filmmaker was inspired by ‘Piku’

For the Kashmiri Pandit attendees at PVR Anupam in Saket, the film was a ‘real tribute’ to their memories of exile. Many walked out of the hall with red eyes, wiping away tears.

Who is the gatecrasher? Artist Atul Dodiya’s Delhi exhibition will have you wondering

A parrot from an Indian painting crashes a French wedding, Zohran Mamdani elbows into Manhattan—artist Atul Dodiya's exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery, on till 10 March, reimagines art history.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.