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I had just finished helping my alma mater in Mussoorie hold a half marathon for students and guests. Senior students decided to run 21 kilometres, but others ran 10 kilometres and 5 kilometres too. As much as running has been a culture at the school pretty much since its ...

Taiba was being hunted by the men she had put behind bars.The death threats came as the Americans withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban marched across her country, she said. In the chaos, cell doors were flung open, freeing the rapists and abusers she had helped send to prison.“We ...

A preview of what lies ahead in the new year.The new Covid-19 wave in ChinaThree years after it was first identified there, the coronavirus disease began spreading through China again in mid-December. According to the country’s chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou, China is in the grip of the first of ...

This past week brought home the magnitude of the overlapping crises assailing the global economy, intensifying fears of recession, job losses, hunger and a plunge on stock markets.At the root of this torment is a force so elemental that it has almost ceased to warrant mention — the pandemic. ...

New Delhi: A few days after the Congress government lost power in Rajasthan in December 2013, a top-rated social activist met party leader Rahul Gandhi with a note on why the Ashok Gehlot government got defeated despite making positive interventions in the social sector. Gandhi kept the note aside ...

Hummus long ago surpassed its roots as a Middle Eastern staple to become a familiar treat around the globe. Now the Russian invasion of Ukraine could have the creamy, chickpea-based dish in short supply.Russia and Ukraine are two of the world’s biggest exporters of chickpeas — Russia alone accounts ...

The forecast looked similar in most of neighboring Pakistan, where government forecasters said this week that a high pressure system would likely keep temperatures above normal through Monday. Pakistan’s Meteorological Department also warned that in regions dotted with glaciers, the heat could lead to so-called outburst floods, in which ...

If you live in most any Western country, your government’s support for Ukraine, including sending weapons and imposing sanctions on Russia, can give the impression of a united global response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion.But that isn’t the case. Most of the world’s 195 countries have not shipped aid to ...

This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them.L.G.B.T.Q. romance novels have been around for decades, but they have been a quiet presence, almost entirely self-published or put out by small niche presses, and often ...

ZARANJ, Afghanistan — The smuggler barreled down the narrow dirt road, bouncing into craters and over rocks that jutted out from the scrubland. His headlights were off and as the car picked up speed, he tightened his grip on the steering wheel trying to wrestle it under his control.It ...