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In the late 1700s, in what is now South Africa’s Eastern Cape, a girl named Sarah (Sara/Saartjie) Baartman was born into a world already shaped by colonial violence. Her mother died when she was two. Her father, a cattle driver, died when she was a teenager. As a young woman, a Dutch colonist murdered her…

US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada, accusing Ottawa of failing to manage its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to blanket parts of the United States with what he called “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air.“In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Canada would be held responsible for the…

NEW DELHI: The Centre told Supreme Court Friday that visa and consular services, which are outsourced, offered to lakhs of Indian nationals, OCIs and foreign visa applicants were severely impacted in Indian missions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait, Singapore and Canberra (Australia) as Delhi high court had quashed the selection of private service providers.“We outsource…

Nolan Wells update: Eerie Horn Island detail revealed by rescuer who found teen’s body raises new questions (Image via Getty) Nolan Wells’ death is still under investigation, but a rescuer who helped search for the missing football player believes the dangerous waters around Mississippi’s Horn Island could explain what happened. Brian Trascher, national vice president…

NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…

NEW DELHI: Women formed the majority of NEET-UG candidates and qualifiers again in 2026, but their representation thinned sharply at the very top, with only 30 women among the 138 candidates scoring 690 or more.Women accounted for 13.3 lakh of 22.8 lakh registrations, or 58.5%, and 6.5 lakh of 11.2 lakh candidates who qualified in…

NEW DELHI: In a likely breakthrough in govt’s attempts to muster a two-thirds majority in Parliament to pass the Constitution amendment bill to increase seats in Lok Sabha and implement women’s reservation law from 2029, DMK, which has 22 members in Lok Sabha, said it is open to negotiation if govt can guarantee that the…

NEW DELHI: Signals from DMK and NCP (SP) on the Constitution amendment bill, which will increase seats in Lok Sabha and implement women’s reservation law from 2029, suggest that political momentum is building up in govt’s favour. This comes on the back of the disintegration of Trinamool Congress after BJP trounced it in Bengal elections,…

NEW DELHI: Pained by the unfortunate demise of a cancer patient awaiting Kerala HC’s order on her plea questioning exorbitant cost of life-saving medicines, the Supreme Court Friday took suo motu cognisance of both issues impacting right to life – plight of patients who cannot afford essential life-saving drugs and the judicial expediency in such…

NEW DELHI: After 75 years of being a Republic and a decade of Swachh Bharat Mission, absence of toilets in courts hauntingly impedes women lawyers from practicing, lamented Supreme Court Friday and drew a six-week deadline for states to construct washrooms for women advocates in all court complexes.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices…