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The 50-year-old casual dining chain Chili’s has posted five straight quarters of double digit sales increases. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Slate’s Dan Kois about what’s behind the brand’s turnaround.

Lee’s new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend’s son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn’t his?

In Bihar, Lalita*, a 40-year-old woman, spent decades managing her periods with torn scraps of cloth, unaware of safer alternatives. Her story is neither rare nor new: millions of women in rural India still navigate menstruation without access to hygienic products. From reproductive tract infections to untreated gynaecological issues linked to poor menstrual care, there continue to remain glaring health inequities between urban and rural India. A study analysing data from the National Family Health Survey – 5 (NFHS-%) found that only 42% of adolescent women in India exclusively used hygienic methods during menstruation, and their exclusive use varied from…

PanajiAugust 20, 2025 01:18 AM IST First published on: Aug 19, 2025 at 08:45 PM IST Share Two years after he retired, former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy was appointed Goa’s first Lokayukta in 2013. However, the Opposition INDIA bloc’s Vice-Presidential candidate immediately ran into opposition from the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) that claimed he had been handpicked by BJP CM Manohar Parrikar to be his “yes man” and alleged his appointment violated the law. On March 16, as he prepared to take the oath as the coastal state’s ombudsman, a group of protesters, including workers…

Isro chairperson V Narayanan on Tuesday said the space agency has been working on a rocket as high as a 40-storey building (140m-160m tall), to place a 75,000kg payload in low-earth orbit.

Top 5 Can’t Miss Catch a Spartanburgers baseball game.Sip a cold beer and enjoy some live music at Rockers Brewing Co. The Son of a Peach ale is something of a local legend.Spend time outdoors at Cleveland Park, home to walking trails, playgrounds, and more.Stay at the AC Hotel Spartanburg in the heart of downtown, close to restaurants, parks, and the ballpark. Have dinner at stylish but cozy The Kennedy, which serves a menu of Southern-inspired dishes. South Carolina is filled with towns that blend Southern hospitality, delicious food, and a touch of natural beauty—and Spartanburg is no exception. Located…

As India and China commemorate 75 years of diplomatic engagement this year, strong signs of a diplomatic thaw have emerged. The meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Admiral Dong Jun, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Defence Ministers’ meeting in January; resumption of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in June; and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s two-day visit to India this week all offer glimpses of warmth.A meeting point for two worlds Long before modern diplomacy took shape, and borders were established and redrawn, the relationship between India and China was nurtured by something more enduring:…

There is much to learn from one of India’s most successful experiments — the achievement of food self-sufficiency in the 1960s and the scientist who made it possible

Such attacks have become common in Nigeria’s northwestern and north-central regions, where local herders and farmers clash.At least 27 worshippers have been killed and several wounded when armed bandits stormed a mosque in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state during morning prayers, a village head and a hospital official said.The gunmen opened fire inside a mosque as Muslims gathered to pray at around 04:00 GMT in the remote community of Unguwan Mantau in the Malumfashi local government area, residents said.No one immediately claimed responsibility, but such attacks have become more common in Nigeria’s northwestern and north-central regions, where local herders and farmers…

They say you are what you eat, and across social media, experts are sharing their two cents on what’s great for gut health and what helps lower blood sugar levels. Taking a cue from Dr Pal Manickam, a renowned gastroenterologist, we learnt about 5 supermarket foods that do more harm than good. “Here are 5 ‘healthy’ supermarket foods I never buy as a gastroenterologist… and neither should you!” said the health expert, highlighting fruit juices, packaged sweetened lassis, probiotic supplements, sugar-free biscuits, processed meat, and frozen foods. Fruit juices and health drinks “Just because it says 100% fruit, does not…