Mahesh Rangarajan is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. He speaks with Srijana Mitra Das in TE about the great Indian forest — and how this and its many beings have s...
04.12.2026 Indiatimes.comSrinagar: Over 40, 000 manuscripts have been identified in Jammu and Kashmir under the national Gyan Bharatam mission, with one of the oldest manuscripts of Takri script from the 16th century found in...
04.17.2026 Indiatimes.com
Thirteen years after the Rana Plaza building collapse, any mention of the disaster is often treated as an inconvenience. Some argue that Bangladesh has come a long way since, and that is all we should...
04.17.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites
There is no gentler way to say this: mobs are not afraid of this government either. On February 18, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed declared, “This is the end of mob culture. ” The statement was bold, ...
04.17.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites
Show Quick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, is India's perfume capital with a 400-year-old attar craft tradition The city's rich Ganges soil favors jasmine, vetiver, and Damask rose cultivation for perfumes Kannauj was historically powerful, with seven fortresses and 5, 000 temples in the 9th century Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode There is a small city in Uttar Pradesh that the rest of India has largely forgotten about, and that ...
04.14.2026 Ndtv.com and 1 sitesThe masterminds behind the attack and killing of Abdur Rahman, also known as Shamim al-Jahangir -- a pir based in Kushtia -- have been identified, sources in law enforcement agencies have said. The at...
04.12.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites
Dhaka — A cross-section of people have demanded exemplary punishment for those involved in the mob that beat and hacked a shrine leader to death in broad daylight in the western Bangladeshi district o...
04.12.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sitesA case has been filed over the killing of Abdur Rahman, alias Shamim al-Jahangir, a pir based in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia, two days after the mob attack. Shamim’s elder brother, Fazlur Rahman, fil...
04.13.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Aalia Neelum on Wednesday allowed a sugar mills to file a petition before its Multan bench against a ban on the cultivation of tall crops in the districts of Ra...
04.15.2026 Dawn.com and 2 sites
We unequivocally condemn the brutal mob lynching of a pir in Kushtia’s Daulatpur upazila, reportedly over allegations of hurting religious sentiments. The victim, Abdur Rahman alias Shamim al-Jahangir, was beaten and hacked to death by a mob at his d...
04.14.2026 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites