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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally challenged a United Nations report on the deadly July-August 2024 protests, claiming that its estimate of protest-related deaths was grossly exaggerated and helped legitimise her government’s overthrow. In a letter sent to Volker Türk on Thursday, Hasina’s legal counsel, Steven Powles KC, urged the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to issue a public correction and retraction of findings contained in its February 2025 fact-finding report on Bangladesh. The OHCHR report had estimated that “as many as 1,400 people” may have been killed during the protests and unrest…
ABOUT THE BOOK When Aarin enters the palace as a young bride, she believes she has found both power and sisterhood. But beneath the grandeur, jealousy simmers between her and Hemaprabha, the king’s first queen, turning friendship into rivalry and trust into betrayal. Caught between them is Dalim, a son born of cunning and piety, torn between two mothers and destined to bear the cost of their conflict. Yet even tragedy cannot silence him. Beyond death, deception and grief, new bonds emerge, old wounds seek healing, and a long-awaited reckoning lies hidden within the palace walls. In this bold feminist…
A National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) study, between 2019 and 2023, 63.8 per cent of living organ donors in India were women, while nearly 70 per cent of recipients were men. More than 36,000 women donated organs, but fewer than 18,000 received transplants. Men, in contrast, received nearly 40,000 organs. On paper, this is a dataset. In reality, it is a stark reflection of who gives, and who gets to live. At its simplest, the story is this: in India, women are conditioned to be givers at every stage of life. That expectation does not end at emotional…
Amid some recent reports circulating across sections of the media and social platforms, claims suggesting that former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina faces a threat to her life while staying in India are being viewed with scepticism in security circles. Sources familiar with the matter indicate that Indian security agencies do not share the alarmist assessment being projected in some reports. On the contrary, the prevailing view within the establishment here is that there is no credible or specific threat perception sufficient to trigger extraordinary concern. Sources conveyed that Hasina remains under a robust security umbrella and continues to be…
Marking the centenary of Cosmic Chanting in a historic spiritual moment, the Noida Ashram of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) hosted a divine evening of devotional chanting and meditation that drew thousands of devotees. The event commemorated the landmark evening of April 18, 1926, when Paramahansa Yogananda introduced cosmic chanting to a Western audience at Carnegie Hall, New York. The 2,800-seat hall overflowed with love as everyone present joined in the chant “O God Beautiful,” creating an atmosphere of profound spiritual transformation that lingered long after he left the stage. The same bhava (emotion) was recreated at the…
With a resolve to support a forward-looking bilateral economic partnership agenda, and in association with the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), Bara Parsa Udyog Sangh (BPUS), Makwanpur Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI), and Confederation of Bagmati Province Industries (CBPI), the PHDCCI India–Nepal Centre organised the “India-Nepal Economic Cooperation Forums” recently at Nepal’s key industrial hubs, Birgunj and Hetauda. The forums provided a critically important platform to deliberate on key issues concerning India-Nepal economic and trade cooperation, with a sharp focus on Ease of Doing Business (EoDB), regulatory compliance, process-driven systems, technology-enabled solutions, and hassle-free transit at border points. With…
About the Book Love, hate, denial and betrayal are woven into a single love story that captures today’s hope against yesterday’s despair. In the politically charged city of Amritsar in 1919, as unrest simmers under British colonial rule, Aruna, a spirited nineteen-year-old Anglo-Indian schoolteacher, and Ayaz, a passionate Muslim law student, fall in love. But their love is far from free. Bound by the expectations of their respective communities and shadowed by Ayaz’s dangerous political activism, they must navigate a world where both rebellion and romance carry an unbearable cost. When a sinister military order threatens unsuspecting crowds gathered at…
The 24th edition of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) is set to take place from April 23 to 26, featuring 27 films, including seven narrative features, two documentary features, and 18 short films. IFFLA has announced its line-up of films and events for this year, with participating countries including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. The opening night gala of IFFLA 2026 will feature Mahesh Narayanan’s Malayalam thriller Patriot, starring Mammootty and Mohanlal, who reunite on screen after 18 years. The cast also includes…
Even as Chhattisgarh positions itself at the centre of India’s industrial energy transition, policymakers and industry leaders on Monday flagged persistent regulatory bottlenecks, grid constraints and policy ambiguities slowing the state’s shift to renewable energy. The “Harit Urja Conclave – Powering Chhattisgarh”, held in Raipur, brought together senior government officials, industry stakeholders, energy experts and academia to deliberate on accelerating industrial decarbonisation and clean energy adoption in one of India’s most energy-intensive states. Organised by MAD IDEAZ in association with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), DRRF, CG-SIMA, CGS Network and the Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Ltd (CSPDCL),…
About the Book From the co-creator of Smoky Sky Songs, an animated feature film on toxic terror, comes this unusual and compelling book, “Bollywood, Hollywood and the Future of World Cinema”. In A Bollywood Miscellany, the essays range widely — from Amitabh Bachchan’s second innings and iconic film dialogues to ‘Tiger’ saving democracy in Pakistan, Madhuri Dixit promoting numerical literacy in schools, and much more. The second section, Bollywood, Hollywood and the Others, moves beyond Hindi cinema to examine films from other linguistic traditions, including Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil cinema. The essays explore Charlie Chaplin’s influence on Raj Kapoor, ask…
