At the launch of his book, Democracy’s Heartland, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said he attempts to highlight why the Indian subcontinent matters.
Redford acted in films like Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Way We Were (1973), All the President’s Men (1976), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Out of Africa (1985).
Ashmeet Saluja, a self-proclaimed ‘Swiftie’, began organising fan events in 2022. Since then, the community, called ‘Blondie Mata Ka Jagrata’, has grown exponentially and now has over 750 people.
‘Politics is a boys’ club. Muslim women face a double entry barrier,’ said TMC leader Sagarika Ghose at the launch of ‘Missing from the House’ by Rasheed Kidwai and Amber Kumar Ghosh.
This is not the first time that the reality dating format has forayed into conservative markets. In 2024, Love Is Blind: Habibi was launched that had participants from multiple Arab nations.
Arshi Javaid’s essay collection ‘Yaadgah: Memories of Srinagar’ brings out bittersweet memories of a multicultural Srinagar where Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits co-existed.
Cutting trade ties with Pakistan is easier said than done: the neighbouring country is Afghanistan’s largest single trading partner, taking in 45 per cent of Afghan exports in 2024.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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