Where am I from? An Indian migrant’s identity trap
During the Brazil vs Morocco World Cup match in New York in June 2026, a fellow fan asked the author, an Indian living in Sweden and temporarily in Texas, 'Where are you…
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PM Modi remembers Partition victims on Remembrance Day
A day before India's 78th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to those affected by the 1947 Partition. Describing it as 'a moment that tore apart several lives', he recalled…
Morocco arrests 111, boosts security at Ceuta border after fresh crossing calls
Morocco arrested 111 people near the border with Spain's Ceuta on Saturday after social media posts urged a new mass crossing attempt, reports Times Now. Most of those arrested, 109, were sub-Saharan…
Zohran Mamdani: Immigrants are America’s ‘best’, not ‘worst’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a speech marking America’s 250th Independence Day on July 4, 2026, flipped the familiar anti-immigrant trope on its head. 'For generation after generation, we have…
NRI lists 4 reasons life in US ‘hard to let go’
An NRI vlogger, Rupesh Pandey, living in Chicago has gone viral for listing four reasons why life in the US makes it hard to move back to India. He said the appeal…
Abandoned buildings hold stories of lives once lived
A reader reflects on the fascination with abandoned buildings, imagining their past vibrancy and the lives of people who once inhabited them. Visiting a coastal region in India, she observed many deserted…
Punjab CM hands over 866 govt jobs, cites falling migration
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann distributed appointment letters to 866 new government recruits in Mohali on Saturday. Of these, 636 appointments were made in the Health and Family Welfare Department, including 614…
Spain imposes border checks on Italy over Ceuta migrant row
Spain began passport and nationality checks on flights and ships from Italy from midnight on Saturday, retaliating against Rome's own controls on Spanish travellers. Madrid said the measures, lasting until September 7,…
DNA study finds globe skimmer dragonflies share global gene pool
A Rutgers University study published in PLOS ONE reveals that globe skimmer dragonflies (Pantala flavescens) form a single global breeding population, with minimal genetic differences between specimens from India, Japan, Canada, and…
Uttarakhand plans climate-first growth, ecotourism push by 2047
Uttarakhand will put climate resilience at the centre of its long-term development plan, according to Dr Manoj Kumar Pant, director of planning for the state government. "In all our future planning, we…
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