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Nitish Kumar pulling down woman's hijab 'deplorable': Booker winner Banu Mushtaq

India, Dec. 20 -- International Booker Prize 2025 winner Banu Mushtaq on Friday described Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's act of pulling down the hijab of a woman AYUSH practitioner during a gover... Read More


Maha's ambitious FYJC CAP attempt fails, puts academic year at risk

India, Dec. 20 -- While it was intended to streamline first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions across the state, the education department's ambitious common admission process (CAP) has instead led ... Read More


Buy or sell: Sumeet Bagadia recommends three stocks to buy on Monday - 22 December 2025

Buy or sell stocks, Dec. 20 -- The Indian stock market ended the week on a buoyant note, with the Nifty 50 index snapping a four-session losing streak to close at 25,966, decisively reclaiming the cru... Read More


Jeffrey Epstein files released by DOJ include court documents, call logs, and jail cell videos

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The US Justice Department on Friday (December 19) released thousands of records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking cases. High public interest led... Read More


God of Small Things: Malayalam actor-writer-director Sreenivasan created brilliance from the banal

India, Dec. 20 -- In Kerala, nearly everyone has some deadpan dialogue to deliver from a role played by Sreenivasan. The re-enacting of Sreenivasan's film lines comes easy because the actor, who also... Read More


Here's advice OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy wishes he was told as an undergraduate student

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- In a blogpost for his alma mater Stanford University, tech millionaire Andrej Karpathy shared advice for undergraduate students he wished he was told at that age. Karpathy co-fou... Read More


Delhi govt to install air purifiers in 10K classrooms

India, Dec. 20 -- New Delhi The Delhi government will install air purifiers in 10,000 classrooms in the first phase of a citywide initiative aimed at improving indoor air quality in government school... Read More


UN mulls new mandate for DR Congo peacekeepers at critical moment for conflict

France, Dec. 20 -- Just two years ago, the UN was discussing a gradual drawdown of its peacekeeping force in the DRC - now in its 26th year and one of the largest and most expensive missions in the or... Read More


Dhruv Rathee vows to 'destroy rRs.r300 crore propaganda film' in next video as Dhurandhar breaks box office records

India, Dec. 20 -- Political commentator and content creator Dhruv Rathee has seemingly attacked Dhurandhar once again, or at least promised to. Without naming the film, Rathee tweeted on Saturday that... Read More


Bangladesh: Protesters vandalise Prothom Alo office; Newspaper fails to publish for first time in 27 years

Dhaka, Dec. 20 -- Executive Editor of Bangladesh's leading daily Prothom Alo, Sajjad Sharif, on Friday said that miscreants vandalised and set fire to the media house, forcing journalists to flee the ... Read More