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STOCKTON  —  As the polls closed in California on Super Tuesday, Jim Hicks stood watch in the parking lot of a community center while election officials wearing red vests retrieved ballots from a drop-off box.He jiggled the handle of the metal container when they were done to ensure it ...

It has taken a relatively insignificant election for Chandigarh’s mayor to expose the frailties of India’s electoral democracy. A presiding officer caught on camera allegedly “defacing” ballot papers is reason enough for an incensed Supreme Court (SC) to call for his prosecution and term his actions a “mockery” and ...

January 8thBolsonaro mob storms Brazil’s parliamentSupporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the country’s government buildings in Brasilia, following Bolsonaro’s 2022 election defeat and the inauguration of Luis Ignátio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s new president. When he was in power, Bolsonaro was known as the “mini-Trump” and ...

The last time Christine Dawood saw her husband, Shahzada, and their son, Suleman, they were specks on the North Atlantic, bobbing on a floating platform about 400 miles from land. It was Father’s Day, June 18, and she watched from the support ship as they climbed into a 22-foot ...

The superyacht Mayan Queen IV was sailing smoothly in clear weather through the dark and calm Mediterranean in the early hours of June 14 when it received a call about a migrant ship in distress four nautical miles away.About 20 minutes later, shortly before 3 a.m., the towering $175-million ...

The ministry of culture, through the International Museum Expo, is providing a framework for discussions and deliberations to provide a world-class feel to our museums and unleash the societal, cultural, tourism and economic opportunities in this sector. PREMIUM India is home to over 1,200 museums representing a rich and ...

India on Thursday put up a grand display of military prowess and cultural diversity in its first Republic Day parade down the renamed Kartavya Path with a raft of indigenously produced tanks, guns and missiles, elite soldiers on horseback, camels and motorbikes, women leading some of the biggest marching ...

Saturday will mark a year since the day when an alert passer-by helped avert a major tragedy when he informed the police about an unclaimed black bag lying outside the Ghazipur flower market early morning. Had it not been for him, the improvised explosive device (IED), left there by ...

It is the loneliness that kills him. Mahadev Kurre, 55, sits on the floor of his two-room unplastered home, constantly on the verge of tears. The room he sits in has utensils and clothes all over the floor. And in one corner, a box that has a sheaf of ...

Ayad Akhtar’s parents met in Pakistan in the early ’60s, when they were both medical students and “ridiculously attractive” — or so their friends say. Despite having a love marriage (against the wishes of their parents), theirs was rocky from the start.“By the time I was 4, I already ...