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A three-year-old boy ran unsteadily into the fields. He was dressed in a shirt and khaki shorts, and his long, silky hair was tied up in a tiny bun. He threw himself to the ground and started digging with his bare hands. What fun this was! His father, Kishan ...

NEW DELHI: Slamming the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill as "political gerrymandering" designed by BJP to win elections in J&K, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday rebuffed criticism of Jawaharlal Nehru and asserted that it was the first PM who vetoed the ceding of the state to ...

Young British footballers are trying to help lowly ranked Pakistan qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Source link

We welcomed 1965 – with hopes and without fears. My final year in the postgraduate course was drawing to an end. I had several good offers from institutions in England and Europe. You were halfway through lectures and papers on international relations. There was plenty to study and discuss ...

New Delhi: A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Professor Sajjad Raja, has spoken out against Pakistan’s claim to be a party to the Kashmir dispute. In a tweet, Raja said that the only two parties are the people of Jammu and Kashmir and India, and Pakistan has no ...

I am one of least 23 Labour councillors who have resigned from the party since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. At Oxford city council, where I now sit as an independent, eight of us have left. The reason I quit is because the leader of the Labour party, ...

The empire on which the sun never sets' is the most famous description of the British Empire — even though the phrase was invented to describe the sprawling reach of Spain's territory in the 16th century.But during Britain's reign as the world's greatest global force it was no exaggeration. ...

Children of Chinese ethnicity vastly outperform their white British counterparts, a Government report has found.The Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation report on People and Places details a regional breakdown of social mobility prospects for the first time, including education, occupation and pay.Chinese pupils on free school meals ...

In 1890, PW Currie, Britain’s Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was informed by the colonial administration in what was then called Ceylon that one Abdul al-Helmi had died. Al-Helmi, an Egyptian, was among a group of compatriots who had been exiled to the Indian Ocean island, more than ...

Police in Pakistan have said they are under 'tremendous pressure' from the British High Commission to find missing family members of murdered ten-year-old Sara Sharif.Sara's father, Malik Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, fled the UK a daybefore the girl's body ...