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DHAKA: With thousands in attendance, the spokesperson for Inqilab Moncho and a frontline figure of the July uprising, Sharif Osman Hadi, was laid to rest Saturday beside the grave of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam near the Dhaka University Central Mosque. Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus attending Hadi’s funeral and paying tribute to the slain activist,…
SRINAGAR: In Srinagar, for once, politics took a back seat on December 8, when the conversations revolved not around the tug-of-war between CM Omar Abdullah and LG Manoj Sinha, or another round of security briefings. In the J&K assembly corridors this Monday, lawmakers gathered instead to confront a deadlier political blind spot: Cancer among its…
NEW DELHI: India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Parvathaneni Harish, on Friday called upon Pakistan to end the “grave and ongoing human rights violations” in areas “illegally occupied by it,” particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) open debate on ‘The United Nations Organization: Looking into the Future’,…
The Assad government carried out a secret two-year operation to move thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a hidden site in the remote desert, Reuters has found.The operation, called “Operation Move Earth,” moved bodies from a grave in Qutayfah to a new grave in the Dhumair desert. It ran…
Freed Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures from a van as he arrives at Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, after he was released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Stripl, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP) For two long years, Evyatar David lived with the fear that he might never see his family again. In a…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC said drunk driving cannot be viewed in isolation as a mere act of mischief as it is a grave menace to public safety and “strikes at the very root of societal order”, and denied bail to a trucker accused of crushing an MBBS student while driving under the influence two…
NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking the removal of graves of terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt from Tihar Jail. The petitioners had argued that the graves could encourage glorification of terrorism.A bench of chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and justice Tushar Rao Gedela said there is no…
When the University Grants Commission (UGC) unveiled its draft curriculum for undergraduate mathematics this August, it was presented as an ambitious alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The proposal sought to weave together classical mathematical traditions, modern pedagogy, and interdisciplinary courses, even drawing on sources like the ‘Narada Purana’ and ‘Bharatiya Bijaganit’. But…
