From 1 April, India has abolished the decades-old paper disembarkation form, making submission of a digital e-Arrival Card compulsory for all foreign nationals and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) holders. While the measure targets all inbound passengers, it has immediate practical implications for Chinese tourists, business travellers and students, who together accounted for nearly 380,000…

Relations between New Delhi and Dhaka are thawing after months of political chill, and mobility is high on the agenda. Officials confirmed on 3 April that Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman will travel to India on 8 April for talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar—the first ministerial visit since Bangladesh’s new government took…

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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…

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…