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What Hanuman Chalisa Did Inside Akbar’s Prison Will Shock You

What if one of the most powerful prayers ever written was born not in peace but in chains? What if unshaken devotion could challenge a mighty emperor and win? This is not just a tale from the past. It is a moment where faith stood firm against power, where silence…

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Did You Know Tulsidas Wrote Hanuman Chalisa In Jail?

“बुद्धिहीन तनु जानिके, सुमिरौं पवन कुमार। बल बुद्धि विद्या देहु मोहिं, हरहु कलेश विकार॥” The Hanuman Chalisa is one of the most widely recited prayers in India today. Millions of people chant it every Tuesday, Saturday, or during difficult phases of life without realizing that its origins are linked to…

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‘Lion King’ Composer Sues Comedian For Whopping $27 Million Over Viral Joke About The Lyrics

“The lawsuit will be a moral lesson to him and his career. He deserves it…”

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4 Must-Visit Ancient Monuments in India Over 500 Years Old

India is a country that is recognised by the whole world for its prestigious historical and mythological heritage. In fact, travelling throughout the country can expose our minds to a plethora of cultures and architectural wonders that this journey in itself can be considered as an educational course. In this…

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What’s missing from your child’s textbook? A deep dive into NCERT’s revisions in Modi years

Year after year, whole sections, topics, and names are altered if not altogether taken out of the school textbooks that belong to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). This has occurred so steadily over the last few years that news about history being erased from the school…

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TV Newsance 306: Labubu, Love Jihad & Bihar’s lost voter list

This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…

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Creative sparks: how the Mughal empire made opulent art with power

The V&A’s Great Mughals shines a light on a cultured and enlightened reign over India and south Asia that still wields influence today. Take a close look at some of the remarkable artefacts of that era

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The Great Mughals at the V&A review: an extravagant, exuberant and quite marvellous show

4/5 The exhibition is punctuated with showstopper pieces, one of the finest being a magnificent gold-hilted dagger and scabbard with no fewer than 1,685 rubies

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The Great Mughals review – dazzling decorous delights waft you to paradise

Romance, bloodshed and religious curiosity is distilled in these lovely artefacts from the mighty military reign with a love of beauty and culture

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Five injured in knife fight that broke out in beer parlour near Technopark

The incident occurred in the outlet located opposite Technopark around 11.30 p.m. after a seven-member group led by Sreekaryam native Akbar came to celebrate his birthday.

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Tusker attacks a person, leaves him dead in Tarikere taluk

38-year-old Akbar dies in wild tusker attack near Tanigebail, leaving locals angry and urging government action.

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Tripura govt suspends IFS officer after row over naming lion, lioness 'Akbar' and 'Sita'

The Tripura government has suspended IFS officer Pravin L. Agrawal following the row over naming a lion and lioness ‘Akbar’ and ‘Sita’

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Can a ‘Muslim’ lion, ‘Hindu’ lioness live together? An Indian zoo dilemma

A Hindu group is upset because a zoo kept a lion named after a Mughal king with a lioness named after a Hindu deity.

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Consider renaming lioness called Sita, Calcutta High Court tells West Bengal after VHP complaint

Calcutta High Court asks West Bengal government to consider renaming a lioness named Sita. Sita, along with a lion named Akbar, had arrived in the Siliguri zoo as part of an animal exchange programme from Tripura

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‘Why single us out?’ Pakistan’s Ahmadi minority boycotts election, again

The community was officially declared ‘non-Muslim’ four decades ago. Today, it is increasingly under attack.

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In 'Martyr!,' an endless quest for purpose in a world that can be cruel and uncaring

Engaging and wildly entertaining, Kaveh Akbar's debut novel will undoubtedly be considered one of the best of the year because it focuses on very specific stories while discussing universal feelings.

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‘Like a jailhouse’: Afghans languish in US detention centres

Fleeing deteriorating conditions under the Taliban, some Afghan refugees have made a risky trek to the US-Mexico border.

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The main chapter of how Hindutva sees the past

The Hindutva effort is to create an idea of the Indian nation in which the Hindu religious identity coincides with the cultural

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Love-jihad is defaming Islam, Muslims must oppose it: Baba Ramdev

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev was in Delhi on Friday to launch new products as part of his Patanjali group’s expansion plans. He spoke to Kumar Shakti Shekhar on a number of social, political and religious issues which are currently making headlines. Edited excerpts.

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Cooking teacher has to give up business after Covid destroyed her sense of smell

Raisa said to continue teaching people how to cook Indian food would be like “the blind leading the blind”

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Micro review: 'Rani Durgawati: The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen' by Nandini Sengupta

Journalist-author Nandini Sengupta in her latest biography, ‘Rani Durgawati: The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen', has attempted to revive the much-forgotten 16th century queen, Rani Veerangana Durgawati. The book is Shortlisted for AutHer Awards 2023 in the Non-fiction category.

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Sandhya Mridul on shooting romantic scenes with Naseeruddin Shah: Even if there was a little discomfort during the scene, he used to just joke - Exclusive

Be it kissing her female co-star onscreen or shooting the culprits, Sandhya Mridul aka Sandy has done bounded but remarkable work in Bollywood films. "This is music to my ears. That is why I work so little. So that I can do a new avatar, always," says Sandhya. Known for…

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UP CM inaugurates statues of Maharana Pratap, Khangar in Banda, says ‘city roads like that of Delhi’

BANDA: "Banda looks like Delhi when one sees wide and clean roads," said Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath while praising the improved infrastructure of the Bundelkhand city as he inaugurated two tall statues of Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Maharaja Khet Singh Khangar of Khangar dynasty at separate chowks…

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You People review – charmless Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner update

Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in an unfunny Netflix comedy about an interracial relationship

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UK imposes sanctions on Iran after execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari

Prosecutor general punished as smuggled recording released of Akbari saying he was subjected to ‘3,500 hours of torture’

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