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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held back-to-back talks with leaders of various political parties of Bangladesh, hours after his arrival in Dhaka to boost bilateral ties.Mr. Dar, also the deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan, on Saturday (August 23, 2025) met with the leaders of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami.He also met with the leaders of student-led National Citizen Party (NCP), floated recently with interim government chief Professor Muhammad Yunus’s blessings.A six-member BNP delegation led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir held a meeting with Dar at the Pakistan…

Acclaimed actor and activist Rajshri Deshpande, who also heads the Nabhangan Foundation, takes us through her extraordinary journey — quitting advertising to pursue art, finding freedom of choice after Angry Indian Goddesses, and consciously avoiding typecasting post-Sacred Games

In 2017, the annual economic costs of all tobacco products for the population aged 35 years and above in India were estimated at ₹1,773.4 billion (1.04% of GDP), in addition to ₹566.7 billion (0.33% of GDP) in annual healthcare costs attributable to second-hand smoking. (These costs include “direct medical and nonmedical expenditures, indirect morbidity costs, indirect mortality costs of premature deaths.”)To control the burden of tobacco-related diseases, there is an urgent need to review and strengthen existing tobacco control measures taken by the Indian government.Gaps in the lawThe Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003, is a stringent Act;…

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Donna Noade Reardon, mayor of St. John, New Brunswick, about how President Trump’s tariffs have affected her province as well as Canada’s relationship with the U.S. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country will lift many of the retaliatory tariffs placed on U.S. goods starting September 1. Relations between the two countries have been severely strained by President Trump’s decision to slap high tariffs on Canadian goods and repeated threats to make Canada the 51st state, even if he has no legal authority to do so. Now a movement known as…

I never thought I’d become an expert in traveling with food allergies—but dating someone with them changes the way you plan every trip. My boyfriend, Kenny, has severe nut and fish allergies, and watching him navigate airports, restaurants, and hotel buffets has shown me just how much behind-the-scenes preparation goes into every trip. There’s no “winging it” when the wrong bite could send you to the ER. As Dr. Atul N. Shah, MD, of NY Food Allergy and Wellness, told me, “Preparation before booking is essential for a safe and enjoyable trip.” That means consulting with your doctor, researching a…

Here are the key events on day 1,277 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 24:Fighting Russian forces launched a drone attack on a minibus in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a 59-year-old man and wounding five others, according to a Ukrainian official. A wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson also killed a 69-year-old man, wounded 17 people, and damaged a school and an administrative building in one district, local officials said. Russian forces launched 448 attacks on 17 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region in a single day, according to Ivan Fedorov, the head of…

Kolkata: Family members of the eight-month-old pregnant woman from Birbhum in West Bengal, who was allegedly “pushed back” into Bangladesh, don’t know that she, her husband, and child are behind bars in Bangladesh. The family has raised concern that if Sunali delivers a child in Bangladesh, what would be the nationality of the newborn. (Representative photo) The family, who only knows that Sunali Khatun, her husband Danish Sheikh, and their eight-year-old son were held by the Delhi Police and sent to Bangladesh after being labelled as illegal Bangladeshis, said they last spoke to Sunali around three weeks ago. “I last…

Published on: Aug 23, 2025 08:52 pm IST A 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 inside the law college premises at Kasba in south Kolkata Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Saturday filed the chargesheet in the Kasba law college gang-rape case, officials aware of the development said. Police registered a case on June 26 on the basis of a complaint lodged by the survivor. (Representational image) A 24-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 inside the law college premises at Kasba in south Kolkata. Police registered a case on June 26 on the basis of a complaint…

Months ago, on Mother’s Day, Instagram was teeming with posts on how women are nurturing by nature. I remembered that word recently when I read Serish Nanisetti and Siddharth Kumar Singh’s detailed piece on how a woman doctor in Hyderabad had been running an unauthorised surrogacy and baby-selling operation. The reporters also spoke to couples who had exchanged their babies for money due to poverty or other seemingly insurmountable circumstances. In a similar long piece this week, Laura Spiney wrote in The Guardian about women in Europe who abandon their babies in ‘baby windows’. She writes, “The typical baby window…

Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane applauds fans after the match | Photo Credit: Reuters Harry Kane hit a hat-trick, Michael Olise a double and newcomer Luis Diaz also scored as Bayern Munich thumped RB Leipzig 6-0 at home in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday (August 22, 2025).Bayern’s big-money arrivals, all brought in from the Premier League across the past three seasons, were dominant as the Bavarians begun their title defence in style. Olise scored twice in the first half, either side of a Diaz strike, as Bayern went in to halftime three goals up. Not to be outdone, Kane scored three goals…