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Hauz Khas's Hanuman ji

India, Oct. 29 -- Loud music. Chattering crowds. This evening in Hauz Khas Village could be any evening here. Indeed, it is always the same scene in the fashionable south Delhi destination. The place ... Read More


India faces balancing act on Russia amid US trade talks

New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- India will have to contend with an increasingly delicate balancing act between negotiating a trade deal and repairing ties with the US and maintaining its legacy relationship wit... Read More


How a 9-year-old girl lost her entire family in a single tragedy

India, Oct. 29 -- Sarojini Nagar Market, bursting with Diwali shoppers, was no place for nine-year-old Manisha. Her parents, Sunita and Michael, and elder brother Elvin had gone shopping on October 29... Read More


A bus driver who saved lives, but lost his sight

India, Oct. 29 -- H ad it not been for the alertness of DTC bus driver Kuldeep Singh and bus conductor Buddh Prakash, many other lives could have been lost on October 29, 2005. As Singh drove through ... Read More


A mistaken body, and a wound that never healed

India, Oct. 29 -- F our months after the Sarojini Nagar blast, the Yadav family were dealt another blow - the body they had cremated, believing it to be their 20-year-old son Kaushalendra's, wasn't hi... Read More


In Paharganj, a son still rebuilding his father's legacy

India, Oct. 29 -- In the run-up to Diwali each year, the Sikka family's small cosmetic shop in Paharganj transformed into a riot of colour - decorative candles and diyas stacked in neat rows, bright p... Read More


A seven-year-old boy who wanted light-up shoes

India, Oct. 29 -- All that seven-year-old Karan wanted for Diwali was a pair of shoes that lit up with every step. So, his father, Vinod Poddar, a senior court attendant at the Supreme Court, took him... Read More


UN assessment finds nations delaying crucial climate action

New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Most of the world's countries have missed a critical deadline to update their climate promises, leaving international efforts to curb global warming dangerously short of what sci... Read More


'Hope COP30 will move beyond talks on finance'

New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Despite the slow response to climate action by most countries this year, Brazil, the COP30 host, is hopeful that more nationally determined contributions (NDCs) will trickle in b... Read More


Amazon to cut 14,000 corporate jobs as AI spending accelerates

Seattle, Oct. 29 -- Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while trimming spending. In June CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggress... Read More