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3 months past deadline, India’s waqf mapping is only at 44%. Umeed portal is ‘stressing’ out staff

New Delhi: In the final days before the 6 December, 2025 deadline for mandatory upload of waqf properties on Umeed Central Portal, the Punjab...

Jammu’s power-hitters, Kashmir’s fast bowlers & the Manhas touch. Inside story of J&K’s Ranji glory

J&K squad’s road to Ranji glory wasn’t an easy one. Not that long ago the J&K Cricket Association was reeling under unpaid bills. ‘There was no structure or system’.

Bengaluru’s badminton boom. Powered by techies, app, thousands of courts

Badminton is Bengaluru’s primary source of feel-good endorphins. In the city that produced Prakash Padukone and Ashwini Ponnappa, techies are now carrying the torch.

The global Phoolan Devi story nobody talks about

Her autobiography travelled across borders and appeared in different languages. She understood how she was being framed and used those spaces to speak for herself.

‘I am not afraid of death’—one woman’s war on child marriage in Rajasthan

Kriti Bharti has annulled 53 child marriages in Rajasthan. She's battled death threats, families hiding weddings, and panchayats that fine dissenters Rs 20 lakh.

After ‘no blanket to Muslims’, something shifted in Rajasthan village. ‘Now we have to be wary’

At Kareda Buzurg village in Rajasthan's Tonk district, religion is not a daily fault line. But a routine blanket distribution drive by BJP leader Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria turned into a public sorting of loyalty.

Don’t frame Modi-Israel as ‘this hurts Indian Muslims.’ We don’t mix faith & foreign policy

What unsettles me is how quickly everything is being filtered through loyalty tests. As if Indian Muslims must think one way, Indian Hindus another. Where does this end?

Fake scans, no record of real parents: Couples entangled in Secunderabad-Vizag surrogacy fraud tell their tale

Couples paid up to Rs 30 lakh for a child Dr Pachipala Namratha promised was theirs. Police say newborns were bought and handed over; names of biological parents never recorded.

Meet new Noida CEO Krishna Karunesh—Yogi’s man navigating RWAs, builders, buyers

IAS officer Krishna Karunesh’s earlier job as Gorakhpur District Magistrate was full of political, administrative, social challenges, but somehow Noida beats all that.

What are Indians watching? More screens, less equality, says study

Indians are watching more frequently but in shorter, more distracted bursts.

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Syringes, MRI to ventilators, West Asia war squeezing India’s medical supply chain—costs up 10 to 50%

Industry says manufacturers have 2-4 weeks of buffer stocks, but prolonged disruption could push up shortage risks, especially of consumables like IV and syringes.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.