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For decades, female roles in jatra were played by men known as purush ranis, or male queens. But even at its height, the form carried a certain stigma. Colonial-era urban elites in Calcutta, influenced by European tastes, often dismissed jatra as rustic or unsophisticated. A 19th-Century Anglo-Indian journal derided the voices of boys playing women…
NEW DELHI: With 18 days to polling, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has sharpened a familiar electoral plank, accusing the Centre of pushing Hindi through CBSE‘s NEP-aligned three-language rollout. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan hit back, calling the charge a political cover and pitching NEP as a mother-tongue-first, flexible multilingual model. The clash has turned…
Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it’s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That’s where we come in — ESPN’s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it. 2026 is…
The United Kingdom’s cocoa imports drove more than 2,000 hectares of deforestation in 2025 alone, mainly in Côte d’Ivoire (78%) and Ghana (18%), according to an analysis by climate NGO Global Witness. Total post-2021 losses linked to chocolate products exceeded 8,244 hectares. For all commodities — including palm oil, soy, beef, coffee and rubber…
Disney has reopened its new theme park based on the Frozen movie franchise. The cost of renovating the park has come in at £1.7billion, but fans of the franchise are so thrilled with the new look that even sceptics are being won over. The World of Frozen area of Disneyland Paris was debuted to an…
Australia has re-graded India to the highest risk tier for student visas, triggering extra document checks and longer processing. Universities face slower cash flow and higher refusal rates, while Indian applicants must prepare more robust financial and academic evidence. Source link
Halton Borough Council has been awarded Tree City of the World status. This recognition comes from the Tree Cities of the World programme, a joint initiative by the Arbor Day Foundation and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The award acknowledges the council’s efforts in planting, growing, and maintaining trees for the benefit…
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday said India was planning a “false-flag operation” to blame Pakistan, warning New Delhi of a strong reaction if it conducted such a “drama”. Speaking to the media in Sialkot, Asif said: “They [plan] some kind of false-flag operation through their own men or through the Pakistanis in their detention…
Opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK’s reliance on gas imports, research has shown. The Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely…
