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Singapore Diary: Heritage Trees — Some are centuries old, that have witnessed the colonial port change to a to global city.

By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - Chinua Achebe By Aayushi Rana That is how they spelled it. The threatening notes , slipped under the door of a school for girls, placed in the corners of a hospital full of the sick and the dying, in 1896 Bombay. Warning. Spelt worming. The Native Society, anonymous, invisible, full of bile. That detail is from a novel, not from the two books under review here. But reading M

By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.

By Suresh Nautiyal. What replaces a river that is also memory?

the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.

Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion. degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.

By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.

By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.

By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.

By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.

By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.

By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.

By Shabina Akhtar in Kolkata. “Can you beat this? My wife’s name was in the adjudication list. We transferred the case to Kolkata and presented all the documents during the hearing. Her name was cleared from the adjudication list. But, surprisingly, back in our native place, she has been put on the doomed list.”

When asked last year about comments made by Fuentes, the vice president said that Fuentes can “eat shit.”

The people of Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East (West Asia) deserve peace, dignity, and the right to determine their own futures free from war, occupation, and external domination.

By Suresh Nautiyal. This heritage shows how journeys across seas became roots in soil; how cultural inheritance adapts without dissolving; how identity, when shared with dignity, strengthens the broader social fabric.

What steps can a judge or lawyer take to ensure that a cited legal document is not the result of an ‘AI hallucination’, which may produce false or fabricated information along with seemingly legitimate citations?